The world is back to bartering because everybody gave up on the IMF, exchange rates and money in general when it was discovered that the economy of Zimbabwe, with inflation of 11 million percent, was actually healthier than that of Iceland!
Terrorism does not exist in the new economy because it turns out no terrorist organization had ever created a product or provided a service of any value to anybody. Ditto for pickpockets and people engaged in petty theft. They have all died of starvation.
With the banking system gone, most politicians have very short careers as the corrupt are easily identified. It's not easy to hide 300 cows that suddenly stop in your backyard on the way to a neighboring farm; sending them to Switzerland is not an option.
All research is in the hard sciences as no farmer will feed someone who intends to pay for three square meals a day for two years with "The largest prime number ever"!
Wars are still fought, but only to gain territory or resources. People will not fight to defend an ideology because when it's 'Grow food or Die' the other person's beliefs seem quite acceptable.
Everybody speaks, reads and writes Chinese. Computer programming is taught at literature classes as writing an if-then-else statement in ideograms is closer to haiku than C++.
A significant portion of Hollywood's revenue comes from South Asia. The Oscars now present 'best hero', 'best villain' and 'best comedic character' awards.
'Heroes' season 132 is playing and features new characters that can talk to molluscs and fish, send text messages while driving drunk and write bug free software. All of them are long lost siblings of Peter Petrelli.
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