On (*20*) (9 April), The NATO Science & Technology Organization (STO) launched its Science & Technology Macro Trends Report 2025–2045.
The report identifies six key trends that might be vital for NATO in the next 20 years: evolving competitors areas; the race for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and quantum superiority; biotechnology revolution; useful resource divide; fragmenting public belief; and know-how integration and dependencies.
The report assesses that, as international strategic competitors intensifies, advances in science and know-how will rework how nations compete. It predicts that AI and quantum applied sciences might be at the centre of such competitors and proceed to revolutionise industries, together with in the defence and security sectors. Advances in artificial biology and associated areas will elevate points about analysis security and well being laws.
NATO Chief Scientist and Chair of the NATO Science & Technology Board (STB), Dr Bryan Wells, pressured in the report that these trends will “empower NATO and Allies’ decision-makers to consider the choices before them and how they can best prepare the Alliance today to face future challenges”. “Continued knowledge-building and investment in science & technology will strengthen NATO’s and Allies’ ability to outperform the competitors of today and tomorrow and ensure that we remain robust, resilient, and ready to respond to any threat”, he concluded.
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