What Will The World Look Like In 2030?

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 19, 2014

Mathew Burrows, director of the Atlantic Council’s Strategic Foresight Initiative, was the principal author of the last three National Intelligence Council Global Trends reports. In his new book, The Future, Declassified: Megatrends That Will Undo the World Unless We Take Action (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), he looks at the big changes that require attention -- like a growing middle class, demands for self-determination, a shift in U.S. power, and climate change.

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