The UK Ministry of Defence is making its calls for the future and it ain't pretty. In fact it's kinda scary: neutron bombs for ethnic cleansing; electromagnetic pulse guns to knock us off the internet; a marxist middle class (presumably not infatuated with the property market any more); militancy; terrorism; climate change ...

There's only one solution - increase the MoD's budget, of course.

I suspect this will be one of those reports we look back on and have a bit of a chuckle about. It's all possible, but haven't we seen these kinds of scenarios trotted out many times before?

I like this bit though:

The 90-page report comments on widely discussed issues such as the growing economic importance of India and China, the militarisation of space, and even what it calls "declining news quality" with the rise of "internet-enabled, citizen-journalists" and pressure to release stories "at the expense of facts".

Of course, that's the present, not the future.