Damien

I don't think the move to digital is part of any centralised plan. Most people are moving more of their lives online because it offers quite a lot of benefits. I don't think Governments have welcomed this because with the cross-border nature of the Internet, the sheer volume of noise, encryption and the speed of the information Governments have lost some control. These actions from the Government are a misguided attempt for them to regain it.

I also don't think the World is heading for a major crisis. There is always global turmoil but we've already seen quite a lot worse than anything we can see when we look around today. People in the last 100 years have lived though two World Wars and many believed that nuclear apocalypse was inevitable during the Cold War. These problems eventually gave way to different ones and these ones will eventually go away to be replaced by something else.

Even with ISIS and mass Immigration into Europe the World today is largely safer, richer and healthier than almost any point in history. Only recent years would come close to beating it. In particular huge advancements have been made in the poorer nations with reducing poverty and child mortality and our experience elsewhere tells us that birth rates decline as those things improve.