In the year 2006: Online TV, secession, survivalism

The trendmeisters have spoken, and the news isn’t great.

The Trends Research Institute releases its “Top Trends 2006″ Thursday, the 15th report of its kind from the upstate New York-based social, economic and political trend forecasting think tank. Despite favorable predictions for labor unions and environmental concerns, Americans are headed for a culturally and economically dismal time next year if these predictions are on the money…