This important report, Global Trends 2030-Alternative Worlds , released in 2012 by the U.
National Intelligence Council, describes megatrends and potential game changers for the next decades.
Among the megatrends, it analyzes: - increased individual empowerment - the diffusion of power among states and the ascent of a networked multi-polar world - a world's population growing to 8.
3 billion people, of which sixty percent will live in urbanized areas, and surgin.