Wednesday, December 24, 2014

The Hits And Misses On Predictions From The National Intelligence Council

What The Intelligence Community Thought Would Happen In 2015 - In 2000 -- Kedar Pavgi, Defense One

After a year filled with non-stop national security crises, the question is: Can anyone predict chaos in the future? The answer is, sort of.

Every four years, the National Intelligence Council - the arm of the Intelligence Community tasked with developing long-term outlooks - releases its Global Trends report. It’s an unclassified publication that uses open source information gathering techniques to plot out the world 15 to 20 years out.

In 2000, the NIC released the Global Trends 2015 report to figure out how major technological, geopolitical and demographic trends at the turn of the millennium would shape the years to come. The next one is expected to come out in 2016 and will predict the world of 2035.

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My Comment: 15 years ago I thought I would be living in Odessa (Ukraine) right now .... or in Crimea tending a vineyard. So much for that prediction.

1 comment:

Jay Farquharson said...

Crimea needs the investment, and China needs the wine, go for it!

Sirah's and Merlot's are still hot.