Tablet Magazine's David Goldman recently interviewed George Friedman (no relation), the founder of Stratfor, a "private intelligence" agency based in Austin, Texas. 

Stratfor is fairly well-read and apparently fairly lucrative, too. Some of its reports are a bit cooky, some are excellent. You can pay $349 for a yearly subscription, or get free samples every week (which both Evan and I receive). Most exciting is that you'll also receive a free copy of The Next 100 Years, which attempts to forecast the future of the world. Here is Friedman's rather entertaining forecast, as summarized by Goldman:

The Next 100 Years dismisses the stuff of scare scenarios—Islam taking over Europe, China confronting the United States, a failed Mexican state dumping its surplus millions over the American border—and offers an idiosyncratic vision that will leave most readers confused. Forget Russia and China, Friedman insists: they will collapse of their own weight during the next generation. The great powers of the future are Japan, Turkey, Mexico, and Poland. The great crisis of the mid-21st century, he believes, will be a war between the United States and a fearsome Turkish-Japanese alliance.

The interview isn't very flattering--the author basically argues that Stratfor is a source of superficial information built for a superficial world. Give it a look if you've ever encountered Stratfor before.