Intelligence Office Offers View Of 'A Transformed World'
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has published "Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World," which projects the potential impacts of climate change, population growth, political reshuffling and a host of other dynamic trends on the world of the near-future. Think of it as the National Intelligence Council's own little Magic 8-Ball.
A couple of tech-related excerpts:
"Companies in China, India, and other major developing countries have unique opportunities to be the first to develop a host of emerging technologies. This is especially the case in those instances where companies are building new infrastructure and not burdened by historical patterns of development. Such opportunities include distributed electrical power generation, development of clean water sources, and the next generation of Internet and new information technologies."
"The adoption of irregular warfare tactics by both state and nonstate actors as a primary warfighting approach in countering advanced militaries will be a key characteristic of conflicts in 2025… Modern communication technologies such as satellite and cellular phones, the Internet, and commercial encryption, combined with hand-held navigation devices and high-capacity information systems that can contain large amounts of text, maps, and digital images and videos will greatly enable future irregular forces to organize, coordinate, and execute dispersed operations."
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