Predictions
Categories
- Fiction Tie-In (5)
- Scientific (1)
Links
Book Review: The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence, by Ray Kurzwe
http://www.mikeogara.net/bookreviews/taosm/
Book discusses Moore's Law (computers double in "intelligence" every two years) and how AI will inevitably surpass human intelligence in about 20 years.
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
http://www.findarticles.com/m1264/1_31/61891747/p1/article.jhtml
A science fiction writer explains how to use the past to come up with useful future scenarios.
Failing Predictions:. Future society
http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/21stcent.html
Claims that predictions usually fail. Nevertheless gives a summary of unsolved conflicts in present-day society that will affect the future.
Falling Forward
http://www.briandanaakers.com/falling.html
Science fiction writer Brian Dana Akers' predictions for the 21st century.
Future History (David Cary)
http://www.rdrop.com/~cary/html/future_history.html
Attempts to predict future technological trends.
Future News - Tomorrows news today
http://www.lightwatcher.com/futurenews/futurenews.html
They test the fringe beliefs of today by having a group of talented intuitives review them and then assign likelihoods and percentages of probability.
Future News for Year 2020 and beyond
News of Future is aiming towards giving you the most accurate picture of how the future will look like, on subjects as environment, technology, society, health etc during the next 50 years. We use the knowledge of today together with realistic predictions of the future to provide you with the News of Future.
We are open to predictions all the time in any area so please let us know your predictions about the future. If it is a realistic prediction we will publish it as a News of Future and give you credit for it.
FutureFile
http://www.todmaffin.com/futurefile/
Resource on the future of many industries along with forecasting by tech futurist Tod Maffin. Includes future of broadcasting, business, transportation and medicine.
Global Change - What Will the Future be Like?
http://www.globalchange.com/globalch.htm
Web TV, online books and features by Futurist Dr. Patrick Dixon: future of life on earth, cloning, biotech, digital age, business, banking, management, marketing, lifestyles, health, politics, economics.



