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Old 21-11-2008, 01:08 PM   #1 (permalink)
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2025: Global Trends

http://www.dni.gov/nic/PDF_2025/2025...nal_Report.pdf

This is a report prepared for the US government every four years. Some interesting predictions here.

Here is the AP article associated with it.
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Old 21-11-2008, 04:22 PM   #2 (permalink)
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I take all those predictions with a grain of salt. They can't read into the future and what has happened in the past is all irrelevent.
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Old 21-11-2008, 04:32 PM   #3 (permalink)
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I take all those predictions with a grain of salt. They can't read into the future and what has happened in the past is all irrelevent.
How is what happened in the past irrelevent?
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Reckon Craig would give Mark Thatcher a job as a British Ambassador in Africa tbh.
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Oh shi- I opened a pdf in a web browser!
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Being made by the US government doesn't really inspire me to:

a. read it
b. believe it
c. not use it as toilet paper
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I take all those predictions with a grain of salt. They can't read into the future and what has happened in the past is all irrelevent.
Tell me you didn't just say that
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