In the west, the world's most popular future historian is Thomas friedma. When asked why his book "The World is Flat" is selling 1.3 million copies, he says: I think that simolutaneously most people in the West have lost confidence that they are developing a better future for their kids, whereas previously in America this seemed so certain.

Thomas first discovered the idea for this book by visiting Infosys in Bangalore. There's more of how he was inspired to find that young Americans are going to infosys for work experience, recognising that their generation will need to colaborate as much as compete. This is a new value in the USA - so where better to learn this than in the USA. Now if people at the top of the USA could learn this too, then they should start seeing Green as the new Red, White and Blue