Predictions

• Society: Future: Catastrophes  (39)

A Brief History of the Apocalypse: The Future :

  - A timeline of our apocalyptic future if religious-based predictions all come true.
Armageddon :

- Claims Armageddon will come in the year 2006 when Atlantis rises from the Caribbean.
Arthur C. Clarke's Predictions :

- Science fiction king's predictions about the future on Kurzweil AI Net.
Battelle - Technology Forecasts :

- Battelle Institute predicts technology. Includes top ten technologies, top ten breakthroughs for household products, and other top ten lists.
BBC - h2g2 - Predicting the Future :

- Users can make predictions about the future for later comparison.
Book Review: The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence, by Ray Kurzweil :

- Book discusses Moore's Law (computers double in "intelligence" every two years) and how AI will inevitably surpass human intelligence in about 20 years.
The Chronicle of the Future :

- By the Sunday Times.
2012: Dire Gnosis :

- Prophecies focussed on the year AD 2012 with sources including calendrical systems, visions, religions, archaeology, tribal prophecies, NDEs, OOBEs, contemporary shamanism.
Dr. David Passig :

- Futurist lecturer-consultant who specializes in technological, social and educational forecasting. Materials in English and Hebrew.
Essence: A Few Rules for Predicting the Future, by Octavia E. Butler :

- A science fiction writer explains how to use the past to come up with useful future scenarios.
Failing Predictions:. Future society :

- Claims that predictions usually fail. Nevertheless gives a summary of unsolved conflicts in present-day society that will affect the future.
Falling Forward :

- Science fiction writer Brian Dana Akers' predictions for the 21st century.
Future History (David Cary) :

- Attempts to predict future technological trends.
The Future of Humanity :

- A set of articles from Principia Cybernetica Project Web dealing with approaches to making predictions about the future of evolution.
A Future Timeline of Humanity and the Universe :

- Predicts technological and sociological developments over the next millennium, and forecasts the ultimate destiny of humanity and the universe. Gets better the farther out.
Global Change - What Will the Future be Like? :

- Web TV, online books and features by futurist Dr. Patrick Dixon: future of life on earth, cloning, biotechnology, digital age, business, banking, management, marketing, lifestyles, health, politics, economics.
The Global Technology Revolution: Summary :

- Predicts impact of technology on life in the year 2015.
Humanity's Future :

- Forecasts humanity's next two millennia to identify technological, sociopolitical, industrial and academic developments.
Ian Pearson :

- 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.
ICalledIt.com :

- A Net community for forecasting the future publicly in hopes of influencing it.
Life in the Future :

- General predictions for the year 2010.
Long Bets :

- Discussion and wagers on important future events.
massProphet :

- A web place to publicly share predictions about the future.
The Millennium Calendar :

- 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.
Mooneyham's Speculative Timeline :

- A timeline of the future based on technological and scientific predictions.
Moore's Law - Is the End Upon Us? :

- An article by Carlo Kopp analyzing the behaviour of Moore's Law and speculating on likely future outcomes.
NY Chinatown's Future Predictions :

- Audio interviews and links to the predictions of futurists.
Part I: Timeline: past and future :

- A future timeline based on combining Biblical with extraterrestrial and some scientific sources.
Peering into the future :

- InfoWorld Test Center's Future Watch. Future timeline of computer technology and enterprise computing.
Phrenicea :

- 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.
Predictions and Prophesy :

- Summary of ancient and modern prophecies of the end of the world, plus the Global Disaster Watch.
Predicto.net :

- Consensus view of the future based on user generated predictions.
Retro Future :

- Twentieth century predictions of future technology that never happened.
21st century - Wikipedia :

- User-supported 21st century timeline plus predictions for the future.
Take Hold of the Future :

- Offers many videos, magazine articles, and books on all aspects of the future by Dr. Patrick Dixon.
Timeline tracks possible future of technology :

- BTexact Technologies offers a white paper.
Using World History to Predict the Future :

- Civilizations have predictable life cycles.
The World of 2088 :

- What the world will be like according to the University of Washington.
The Year 2012 :

- News, speculation, and prophecy on the year 2012.
ZiiTrend :

- A user-driven online community for predicting future events and trends.
Forecast Puts Earth's Future Under a Cloud :

- An overview of scientists' predictions of the inmact of global temperatures rise on climate change. Guardian, Science. (May 15, 2006)
The Future of Humanity :

- A transcript of a lecture given by Dr. Isaac Asimov at Newark College of Engineering. (November 8, 1974)