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January 9, 2017
National Intelligence Council’s latest edition of the report, Global Trends “Paradox of Progress” was released Jan 9, 2017, exploring trends and scenarios over the next 20 years.
Today’s panels will explore Key Choices to Shape the Future. They will focus on governance, geopolitics, and the environment.
“ This future, although dark is not set in stone. There are some choices before all of us. ”
Dr. Suzanne Fry, Director, NIC Strategic Futures Group
Key factor for a positive future: RESILIENCE - in infrastructure, knowledge and relationships -for managing surprise and discontinuity.
Dr. Suzanne Fry introduces the NIC’s “evidence based” look at the future #gt2035
Dr. Greg Treverton, NIC Chairman speaks about the conceptual and
practical value of the long term thinking Global Trends provides. #gt2035
The National Intelligence Council
will debut the latest edition of its quadrennial Global Trends report today at
a special event at the Newseum. At the conclusion of the event, the report will
be formally released to the publlic, via DNI.gov, the official website of the
Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
Watch Live now: http://www.newseum.org/live/
Global Trends: Paradox of Progress
We are living in paradox…
Industrial and information
age achievements are shaping a world both more dangerous and richer with
opportunity. Human choices will determine whether promise or peril prevails.
Global Trends is the Intelligence Community’s major assessment of the forces - and choices - shaping the world over the next two decades.
Unique among intelligence products of this depth and stature, the
National Intelligence Council’s quadrennial Global Trends report is completely unclassified.
National Intelligence Council’s latest edition of the report, Global Trends “Paradox of Progress” will be released Jan 9, 2017 exploring trends and scenarios over the next 20 years.
Not an End, An Invitation
The publication of each Global Trends report is not an end, but an invitation, to discuss, debate and inquire further about how the future could unfold.
The Global Trends series pushes us to reexamine key assumptions, expectations, and uncertainties about the future.
With the release of the final report, we continue to welcome you feedback.
For nearly two decades, the National Intelligence Council’s (NIC) Global Trends reports have informed strategic conversations within and beyond the US Government.
The upcoming, 6th edition of Global Trends, will be released on January 9, 2017. Watch this space for additional information.
The NIC seeks a range of perspectives to help it identify and understand the key trends and choices likely to shape the future. Based on this and other research, the NIC will provide the President, Administration, and public an assessment of the future strategic landscape in January 2017, just after the Presidential Election and before the Inauguration.
In addition to meeting with more than 2,000 interlocutors in dozens of countries worldwide, the NIC is leveraging Tumblr and other social media platforms to diversify the perspectives it engages and to extend the Global Trends conversation to new communities.