The latest FutureQuest newsletter points out a UK Ministry of Defence document called Strategic Trends which is apparently "an ambitious attempt to develop a coherent view of how the world might develop over the next thirty years and the implications for defence and security." (FutureQuest is published by Fast Future who were involved in the report, so this isn't objective commentary.) Unfortunately the main PDF document won't let me see the eight pages of content if I open it with Preview or Acrobat Reader in Mac OS X. If you have any luck, post your thoughts as a comment... One day, in a far-off future, the MoD will be able to cope with these advanced technologies.
The download is for a contents page only. It is possible to access the actual content by adding the relevant URL information to the existing URL, i.e. for the first part clicking on the Contents PDF link gives the error
'Could not open file st/1_KeyFindings.pdf'
This file is available at
http://www.mod.uk/linked_files/jdcc/st/1_KeyFindings.pdf (408k)
As for whether it's worth reading, that will have to wait 'til lunchtime.