Nomi Prins is the author of Other People's Money: The Corporate Mugging of America and Jacked: How "Conservatives" are Picking Your Pocket (whether you voted for them or not). She is a former managing director at Goldman Sachs and ran the international analytics group at Bear Stearns. Ms. Prins is a senior fellow at Demos.
Nobody expected industrial capitalism to end up like this. Nobody even saw it evolving in this direction. I'm afraid this failing is not unusual among futurists: The natural tendency is to think about how economies can best grow and evolve, not how it can be untracked. But an unforeseen road always seems to appear, and there goes society goes off on a tangent.