Open Directory - Society: Future: Predictions
See also: - A timeline of our apocalyptic future if religious-based predictions all come true. - Prophecies focussed on the year AD 2012 with sources including calendrical systems, visions, religions, archaeology, tribal prophecies, NDEs, OOBEs, contemporary shamanism. - User-supported 21st century timeline plus predictions for the future. - Predicts technological and sociological developments over the next millennium, and forecasts the ultimate destiny of humanity and the universe. Gets better the farther out. - Science fiction king's predictions about the future on Kurzweil AI Net. - Users can make predictions about the future for later comparison. - Battelle Institute predicts technology. Includes top ten technologies, top ten breakthroughs for household products, and other top ten lists. - Book discusses Moore's Law (computers double in "intelligence" every two years) and how AI will inevitably surpass human intelligence in about 20 years. - Futurist lecturer-consultant who specializes in technological, social and educational forecasting. Materials in English and Hebrew. - Claims that predictions usually fail. Nevertheless gives a summary of unsolved conflicts in present-day society that will affect the future. - Science fiction writer Brian Dana Akers' predictions for the 21st century. - Analyzes historical events through the flow of generations, comparing today's generational attitudes to those of the past, thereby producing analysis and forecasts of news, politics, culture and finance. - Forecasts humanity's next two millennia to identify technological, sociopolitical, industrial and academic developments. - BT's Futurologist - presents his insights into the future of many aspects of our daily lives - from work to leisure, and from capitalism to the care economy. - General predictions for the year 2010. - Discussion and wagers on important future events. - A timeline of the future based on technological and scientific predictions. - An article by Carlo Kopp analyzing the behaviour of Moore's Law and speculating on likely future outcomes. - Presents a futuristic scenario based on the ultimate outcome of the Internet and biotechnology revolutions; promotes discussion and debate of present-day technological and social trends. - Consensus view of the future based on user generated predictions. - Twentieth century predictions of future technology that never happened. - Offers many videos, magazine articles, and books on all aspects of the future by Dr. Patrick Dixon. - By the Sunday Times. - A set of articles from Principia Cybernetica Project Web dealing with approaches to making predictions about the future of evolution. - Predicts impact of technology on life in the year 2015. - Chronological schedule of predicted and actual events linked to millennial prophecies, including NASA space launches. Runs from Rapture expected in 1998 to end of the world in 3797. - What the world will be like according to the University of Washington. - News, speculation, and prophecy on the year 2012. - BTexact Technologies offers a white paper. - Civilizations have predictable life cycles. - A social experiment that harnesses the collective intelligence of the web to visualize and uncover hidden relationships among future events. - An overview of scientists' predictions of the impact of global temperatures rise on climate change. Guardian, Science. (May 15, 2006) - A transcript of a lecture given by Dr. Isaac Asimov at Newark College of Engineering. (November 08, 1974)
