Disruptive Civil Technologies: Six Technologies with Potential Impacts on US Interests out to 2025

To support the development of the National Intelligence Council's Global Trends 2025, SRI Consulting Business Intelligence (SRIC-BI) was asked to identify six potentially disruptive civil or dual use technologies that could emerge in the coming fifteen years (2025). A disruptive technology is defined as a technology with the potential to causes a noticeable-even if temporary- degradation or enhancement in one of the elements of US national power (geopolitical, military, economic, or social cohesion). The six disruptive technologies were identified through a process carried out by technology analysts from SRIC-BI's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, and its European office in Croydon, England.