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2. Future cars will become producers of power rather than merely consumers. A scheme envisioned at the Technology University of Delft would use fuel cells of parked electric vehicles to convert biogas or hydrogen into more electricity. And the owners would be paid for the energy their vehicles produce

THE FUTURIST Magazine releases its top ten forecasts for 2013 and beyond

Global Trends 2030 is intended to stimulate thinking about the rapid and vast geopolitical changes characterizing the world today and possible global trajectories over the next 15 years.

Understanding the development of Mega Cities and Smart Cities; "Smart" emerging as the new Green; Geo Socialization; Innovating to Zero; Beyond BRIC: The Next Game-Changers; Space Jam; Personal Robots; and New Business Models, to name a few, will create some of the Mega Trends that will influence and shape the world in the coming years to 2025.

On the way to building the sustainable world, transition engineers respond to risks, not disasters. Transition engineering will emerge as the way by which society reduces both fossil fuel use and the detrimental social and environmental impacts of industrialization.