I was stranded in the Rochester airport and started reading The Next 100 Years by George Friedman. It was in the business section and had a blurb from Lou Dobbs, so that gives you an idea of the nature of Friedman's predictions. Nonetheless, I was completely engrossed by it and couldn't stop reading it. As soon as I got home I ordered it from the library but couldn't wait for the Brooklyn interlibrary system and downloaded it as an e-book. I was so into it that I finished it in a couple of days, even though I couldn't figure out how to get it on my Kindle and read the whole thing on my laptop, which I hate doing.
I think he's kind of full of shit about some stuff, while other stuff is more plausible. He ignores global warming but at least acknowledges that it's real in the afterword. Some highlights: the "War on Terror" will fizzle out by 2020, but Russia will rise and collapse again after a new cold war. China will fracture by 2030, and in the 2050s there will be a new world war, mostly in space, involving the US and Poland against Japan and Turkey. After that, there will be a population bust which will be alleviated by robots, and in the 2080s Mexican-Americans will join a resurgent Mexico in an attempt to re-annex the American Southwest. It was the Japan/Turkey war and the Mexican annexation that struck me as BS, for reasons I won't bore you (or myself) with.
Admittedly, I am a sucker for alternate-history stuff -- I also ate up Philip Roth's The Plot Against America and Kim Stanley Robinson's The Years of Rice and Salt -- but at least those billed themselves as fiction. Still and all, this was a fun read.