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Chapter 15
Future of
Intelligence
We are engaged in a dynamic global environment, in which the pace,
scale, and complexity of change are unprecedented. It is a networked
world where what happens in Peshawar aects Peoria—and vice versa…
(a)dapting the Community to this new environment is our fundamental
challenge.
DNI J. M. McConnell
Vision 2015
Chapter Objectives
1. Identify some future threats and challenges the United States will
likely face in the rst half of the twenty-rst century.
2. Describe new technologies (e.g., nanotechnology, articial intelli-
gence) and the manner they could rapidly alter the world in which
we live and challenge the intelligence community (IC).
3. Understand the following demographic projections for the next ...