I missed this a couple of weeks back. BT's futurist, Ian Pearson, keeps a timeline of developments expected to occur over the next twenty years. Here he elaborates on many of these, which are mainly technological. It's basically a list of predictions, rather than any kind of scenarios. The timeline itself is here and the following pages. He also has an interesting list of potential wild cards. (via FUTUREdition)
Ian Pearson's 20 years of predictions
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Kindly let me know whether you could send me the email id of Dr Pearson.We would like to explore the possibility of inviting him to India.The forecasts are very exciting.
His email address is on his website http://www.btinternet.com/~ian.pearson/ : ian dot d dot pearson at bt dot com