Hmmm, let's take the PC road less traveled. social crisis? how about the split into two societies, the technocrats with money and the "masses" without. two societies for america -- the 'latin american model' {old haitian model?/ the underclasses get bigger and the overclass gets smaller and more powerful} -- is predicted by many [currently controversially, mind you, by charles murray in new book "the bell curve" -- easy access current newsweek, 'scare' access last week's nytimes magazine cover story]... conservatives might say its inevitable, how are we going to handle; liberals might say hey this is happening how are we going to stop it or mitigate the worst effects pollution, immigrant breakdown too easy future of labor in relationship to manufacturing might be interesting just thoughts