2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years
The Internet will give rise to a completely new understanding of private and public. Knowledge will not be a scarce resource any more, but that will not lead to more rational decisions in most of the cases, because the knowledge on its own is not sufficient to change behavior when strong interests are involved.  Therefore, probably there will be  needed a "green team" to enforce environmental behavior, like today, the  peacekeeping forces (blue berets).