Political future factors are formative interventions of superordinate authorities such as governments, but also NGOs and associations, in the form of laws, norms and regulations. Political and economic power strengthens or weakens the ability of goals which result from idea-based future factors to be implemented. Machiavelli (1532) was one of the earliest writers in modern time to regard power as a cause of change and stability. Power is the ability to enforce one’s own interests and ideas, if necessary against the will of others, and to prevent the implementation of others’ ideas and goals. Power promotes or prevents changes, be they positive or negative. Power starts with the patriarch who rules his family, concerns the Board which navigates its company through markets at its own will and ends with heads of government who enforce global initiatives and wars.