![Is American Society Collapsing? Is American Society Collapsing?](https://realnews.today/media/IMG_1564-680x434-310x168.jpeg)
Twenty-five years ago, when the high-tech Second Industrial Revolution had just begun, I made a bet with an editor from Wired magazine that global society led by the United States would collapse in the year 2020 from a confluence of causes created by modern technology out of control.