Philip S. Antón, Richard Silberglitt, and James Schneider
Prepared for the National Intelligence Council. 92 pages.

This (c)2001 RAND publication is freely available online in HTML and PDF. It provided input to the US government's Global Trends 2015 document. Here's the publisher's summary:

Various technologies have the potential for significant and dominant global effects within the next few decades. This report provides a quick look at global technology trends in biotechnology, nanotechnology, and materials technology and their implications for information technology and the world in 2015.

The Global Technology Revolution