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Predictions

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This is the raw list of Earth predictions. I suggest you add any you find here, before assigning them to particular Categories.

 

If you want to create a new prediction area, there's a simple template for you to use.

(The To Dos are just a reminder that something extra needs adding: like a page! I know: too many at the moment! Of course, you could help reduce the number...)

 

As this wiki serves, in part, as a primitive PredictionsRegistry, I intend to modify this list into a table as the blanks are filled in. This will show:

  • the prediction (and links to the details: this is where the references will be going)
  • a subjective measure of the insight implied by the prediction:
    • trivial: as in 'the sun will rise tomorrow'
    • obvious: anybody would make the same prediction, with a little thought.
    • subtle: most could see prediction, with access to the right information.
    • obscure: truly insightful, if it comes to pass!
  • a subjective measure of the likelihood of the prediction
    • Unlikely: trends suggest this prediction will not happen by 2040 (although a lot can happen in the next 30 years!)
    • Open: the prediction may or may not happen
    • Likely: the prediction appears to be coming true
    • Confirmed: the prediction has already come true

 

Predictions Registry for Earth:

At present there are 44 predictions listed

  • 7 are confirmed
  • 3 are likely
  • 2 are Open
  • 32 are still to be assessed (but that needn't stop you forming your own opinions)

 

CategoryPredictionInsightStatusReferences
InternetThe Web as a vehicle for personal expressionObviousConfirmedCheck
SpamObviousConfirmedCheck
People adjusting their web "shells" or search behavior to only admit views that fit their preconceptions.SubtleLikelyCheck
PoliticalPartition of the Soviet UnionSubtleConfirmedCheck
SocialCrotchety elders using high tech to harass kidsObscureConfirmed-
Privacy as a vanishing commoditySubtleLikelyCheck
'Dazers' who use biofeedback to alter consciousness in druglike ways without using illegal substances.SubtleOpenCheck
Waves of Chinese tourists flooding the world.ObscureConfirmedCheck
EnvironmentGlobal warming and rising sea levelsObviousConfirmedCheck
Levees breaking and cities flooded on the Mississippi & Gulf CoastSubtleConfirmedCheck
TechnologyImage PlaquesObviousLikelyCheck
Dirigibles for mass transportationSubtleOpenCheck

 

Blatant and Obvious

These have already happened, some even as the book was being published. Bear in mind, too, that 1990 was the publication date: preparation of a book this size doesn't happen immediately.

 

 

Trends and Breakthroughs with Citation

 

 

Trends Needing Citation (I had the links but misplaced them)

 

 

Trends/breakthroughs that are desperately needed, now!

 

 

Non-predictions (ie things that are predicted not to be)

 

Trends/Breakthroughs that currently show no sign of happening

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