"As with the NIC’s previous Global Trends reports, we do not seek to predict the future—which would be an impossible feat—but instead provide a framework for th

"As with the NIC’s previous Global Trends reports, we do not seek to predict the future—which would be an impossible feat—but instead provide a framework for thinking about possible futures and their implications." Consideration of possible futures seems like a difficult but important task. You disparage PM, but in reality is this speculative task so different from the work that product designers/inventors do when they attempt to predict the behavior patterns and wants of future users?