By: the man of twists and turns
Global Trend 2015(PDF) seems to be the oldest, prepared in 2000 - there was a GT2010, but it isn't online. I found it by reading the links.
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To quote Butch Cassidy, who are these guys ? The document says they have been going since 1996. Did they predict Twitter, or Facebook, or the Arab Spring, or the Chinese investment in Africa, anything...
View ArticleBy: Mezentian
Conclusion: we're all fucked, we're just not sure if the future will be Mad Max or R Talstoran/2000AD style warzone. (Lazy link to a Gawker summary, for the short attention-spanners or busy folks like...
View ArticleBy: infini
Very interesting. I'll come back to this after digging through the post. I'd add a tag for UnitedStates however, since this is all from their national state/defence perspective.
View ArticleWhere are the flying cars? I was promised flying cars. I don't see any flying...
Global Trends 2030 Alternate Worlds is the latest quadrennial report from The US National Intelligence Council (NIC). (Report: PDF / Talking Points: PDF.) Similar to its predecessors, '2030' attempts...
View ArticleBy: Mezentian
According to this map, it looks like Middle East and Southeast Asia will be exceptionally more-fucked, while the central western US and western US will be severely to extremely more-fucked. That's the...
View ArticleBy: wilful
Criticising these people for failing to foresee every significant event is to dismiss forecasting entirely. Is there any point at all to consider some future scenarios based on synthesising current...
View ArticleBy: infini
A couple of things - South East Asia is technically the ASEAN nations and not whatever the map above is referring to, which is North, Central and East. And perhaps its time to tweak Great Dismal's...
View ArticleBy: slogger
According to this map, it looks like Middle East and Southeast Asia will be exceptionally more-fucked, while the central western US and western US will be severely to extremely more-fucked.
View ArticleBy: Celsius1414
As I always like to point out when it comes up, we already have flying cars. As the great @GreatDismal famously said, "The future is already here -- it's just not very evenly distributed."
View ArticleBy: Sangermaine
One of these three is not like the others. No, they actually all are part of a package. As global living standards rise, demand for resources also rises.
View ArticleBy: eviemath
* Resource (especially food, water, energy) demand and scarcity to increase * Poverty to decline * Nearly half the world population to suffer "severe water stress" One of these three is not like the...
View ArticleBy: zarq
Previously On Slashdot? To quote Butch Cassidy, who are these guys ? The document says they have been going since 1996. Did they predict Twitter, or Facebook, or the Arab Spring, or the Chinese...
View ArticleBy: Mezentian
Futurist is the best job in the world. You just make wild claims, and people pay you. They may laugh later. Who knows? I seem to recall British Telecom used to do a nice line in it. This might be it....
View ArticleBy: eviemath
Ok. But if we have, at the same time, increases in food and water scarcity, what does that look like demographically? It seems to me that would imply that, of the population currently living in...
View ArticleBy: infini
But to get to that inflexion point it requires increasing numbers of people in the very near future being able to afford and thus aspire to owning all these consumables thus leading to the increasing...
View ArticleBy: eviemath
I guess we assumed a different order of events. Decreasing poverty could lead to increasing use of finite resources, which then leads to food, water, and energy scarcity. I was looking at it from the...
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