I belong to a group called Police Futurists International. This link was displayed in the discussion group. It shows a 1967 portrayal of what a 1999 computer and on line purchasing would entail. They were uncanny in their estimate of the future.
This clip missed the mark a bit from 1930 where they portray our restaurants in 1980 as pill dispensers.
Planning for the future is critical in the development of new inventions and technologies. Law enforcement is not an exception. It seems however; that public perception and even those in the law enforcement community are often unwilling and even hostile to change.
Regardless, futures planning is critical to our society both for the comforts but also for the development of policy and new ways to better serve the public.