Two incompatible views of the future

I just tried imagining two possible futures. In one, we continue down the very ugly path we're on, and in the other, we reach my ideal future. What's interesting in this speculation is that the some of the items in the list are incompatible with the other view. That is, if you pick them up and try to stick them in the other future, it doesn't seem to work.

What this implies to me, is that some of the items are enablers for their respective futures. Play the game yourself. Choose your own futures if you like.

Here are my possible futures.


EITHER

- contracting population
- banks controlling nations
- uncontrolled inflation OR a police state
- massive market fluctuations OR concentrated wealth
- fortress states and conflict zones
- token-representation tyrannies and dictatorships
- severe censorship and dogmatic propaganda wars
- reduced education
- reduced health care and social assistance
- no pensions
- shortened average life-spans
- droughts, famine, and war in much of the world
- economic drivers based on greed and fear
- out-of-control global warming

OR

- contracting population
- bitcoin-type currency
- non-inflation-based economy
- no banks
- no debt
- reduced-speculation markets
- non-resource-based economy
- anonymous cloud-based open-source computing environments
- dispersed, geographically-overlapping communicative-assent-based governments
- legalized drugs
- no censorship at all
- advanced media aggregation and dissemination
- cheaper education
- easier access to medical and social services
- minimal limits on immigration
- economic drivers based on eco-sustainability
- stabilized global warming