A Must Read: Future Files: The 5 Trends That Will Shape the Next 50 Years (by Richard Watson)

I just finished reading this really great book. For anyone that is interested in what the future brings this is really a must-read: Amazon.com: Future Files: The 5 Trends That Will Shape the Next 50 Years: Richard Watson: Books.  More details and a way to order direct are here

Well written and  concise predictions by Futurist Richard Watson. Download his first chapter here

From the book:

"Trends  that will transform society: Globalisation... used to mean Americanisation,  but these days it means exposure to people, products, and ideas from everywhere. Globalisation impacts on the sourcing of products and services, and on market-expansion opportunities. It also means connectedness and mobility. Everything from countries and computers to gadgets and global banking will be hyper-linked together. In the future, this trend will accelerate even faster, thanks to devices such as GPS, RFIDs, sensor motes, and smart dust (all essentially tiny wireless transmitters and/or receivers of some kind).  Hence privacy will all but disappear, but transparency and risk may increase...."