If this happens, it would radically increase global interconnectedness on a cultural and economical level: the people of developing countries are more than capable of finding solutions to their own problems — the only thing they're lacking is the resources, and if they come up with a plan, more and more they will be able to convince people in developed countries to donate the funds to import them.
The Internet is already creating a very strong sense of community which has allowed Youtube celebrities, of all people, to collect millions of dollars for charities: this sense of community will continue to grow as people more and more rely on the Internet for a sense of connection, and by the time Internet goes global, people will jump on the opportunity to help people in developed countries by the millions.
There will be another advantage of getting Africa on board, and it's to reconcile the West and the Middle East. So far, there's been little interaction between the two on social media because of the language barrier. You see many Arab groups on facebook (you can recognize them instantly by their alphabet) yet very rarely do you actually talk to an Arab on facebook. In many Islamic African countries, people natively speak either English or French, and in some countries they speak either as well as Arabic (Sudan, Algeria, Tunisia, Chad, Mauritania), and could serve as interpreters.
This will increase interaction between Arabic and Western countries, which will initially increase hostility but eventually increase sympathy — once African Internet users get over the "troll phase" the West has been through (there are still plenty of them, but we're getting bored with their trolling, and once they realize that, so will they).
I don't expect the violence to end until there's been a few years of busy dialogue between Islamic and Christian nations. We're looking at a continuation of the chain of terror-on-war and war-on-terror, of retaliations and counter-retaliations, for at least 5 to 10 more years, and yes, this has everything to do with religion in particular and culture in general: in a word, the problem we need to address is bigotry, and to do so we need a lot of interaction.
It's likely that Islam will become more moderate in North-African countries as they come more in contact with the West, and we can only hope beyond hope that Western consumerism (our own religion) will also become more moderate. Once North-Africa modernizes, taking advantage of the solar energy and nutrient-rich desert sands that just need some irrigation, it'll become a major player in the world economy, despite or even because of a lack of resources. Once that happens, their influence will also moderate the Middle-East, but that will be a long time from now… perhaps by that time, things are quite different.
Because of global warming, more rain will fall nearer the poles and seas and less at the equator and inland. The consequences of this will be most dire in the Middle-East, where there is no rain forest. The region will be torn apart even more by war, and those that survive will have to rely on ecotech, which in itself will force them to modernize.
If our cultures connected, it could help us to hybridize our capitalist model with an anarchic model, as most villagers in the developing world still rely on the sharing economy that most of us relied on before the Industrial Revolution. Capitalism is a simple, easy, crude way to organize large-scale projects, but it doesn't need to be ubiquitous: for smaller projects, sharing economies are more useful. And with 3D printers, everything will become dependent mostly on software, and since information is so fluid, it's easy to share and work on between a large number of people without much organization: it's much better developed if it's open-source and crowdsourced.
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