State of the world 2013
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/12/what-are-the-big-issues-of-201.html
vs
http://www.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/459/State-of-the-World-2013-Bruce-St-page01.html

As usual the comment stream on the Charlie Stross blog is much, much richer than that on The Well around Sterling/Lebkowsky. I'm not sure what that says about the crowd involved as it's probably more to do with the medium of expression. Bruce Sterling has interesting stuff to say as always, at least as interesting as Charlie Stross. It's more the quality of the discussion I'm interested in here.

[ps] SeeAlso for some more pundits (eg Scoble) prognosticating.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20792067
Note the lack of comments or any discussion by the great unwashed.

[ps-2] "The BBC is not responsible for the content of external Internet sites". Really? Perhaps somebody should tell them it's 2013 not 1996.