The human mind is hard wired for people to exist in small groups. Since the advent of the agricultural revolution that has been increasingly hard to do. Thugs rule. The advent of power to the people, that is the individual makes thugs, that is , large groups, less and less important.
I envision increased wide spread technology in the not too distant future which will allow small groups to exist in peace. Like Porcupines they will be too dangerous to the Predators for them to bother.
this is already happening. the ever present possibility of cataclysmic self defense of mutually assured destruction is going to be the norm among the intelligent. imagine everyone with an IQ over 120 being handed an h-bomb on their 21st birthday. this will be to a further extreme. with the information now available, the individual has the power to dead man switch self defense against all the democratic hordes of the planet. with the internet and a grocery store, let the MacGyvering of the apocalypse commence. won't the people who think they are in control be surprised. bombs and bullets will become more dangerous to the ones that use them than their targets.