Obama is not unique in his beliefs. In recent Marx and Engels, ever the diligent futurists, years, an onslaught of the world’s brightest created a system for thinking about periods of economists and academics—Columbia University’s extreme change in human history back in the Joseph Stiglitz; Harvard University’s Thomas 1800s. Marx and Engels paid close attention to Piketty; Stanford University’s Nicholas Bloom; times of “contradiction” in modern history, specific Oxford University’s Richard Susskind; MIT’s times when the way things were socially done by Erik Brynjolfsson and Berkeley’s Emmanuel Saez the groups of regular people were very different —have sounded the same alarm, vociferously from the way things were economically organized declaring that the economy has begun rapidly by the powers-that-be. Whenever social behaviors changing, and we must alter the way society is clash the economic models, said Marx and Engels, structured to match its demands and constraints. revolution becomes an inevitability. Let’s stop there to apply this very timely idea to today… 10