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Albert Brooks’ 2030 Is a Funny, Age-Obsessed 1984

A good book can make you laugh or cry or think. A great book makes you do all three. 2030, [...]

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Hilarious and Surprising Predictions of the Future…From the 1960s! (video)

Nothing should make a futurist more wary than looking at the history of the profession and seeing how hilarious its [...]

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Making Predictions for the Year 2030

We often cover the big names in futurism: Ray Kurzweil, Aubrey de Grey, Michio Kaku, etc, but what about the [...]

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Recorded Future – A Web Search Through Time (video)

Individually none of us seem that great at predicting the future, but collectively we could have some valuable insights. Recorded [...]

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Time Presents 10 Questions for Kurzweil: Hello, Mainstream

Everybody thinks about the future, but not everyone makes it their life’s work. Besides being an inventor and author, Ray [...]

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Long Bets: Putting Money Where Your Predictions Are

Think you know what will happen in the future? Would you care to make a wager on that? Since 2002, [...]

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Retro Futurism – Arthur C. Clarke’s Predictions from 1964 (video)

Arthur C. Clarke predicted the rise of telecommuting, telemedicine, and mobile phones decades before they existed. I recently came across [...]

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MRI Scans Are Better At Predicting Your Behavior Than You Are

Researchers at UCLA have discovered that MRI scans of your brain allow them to predict your future behavior better than [...]

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Kurzweil Defends Predictions for 2009, Says He is 102 for 108.

How accurately must you predict the future before you can call yourself a futurist? That’s the central question in a [...]

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AT&T Predictions From 16 Years Ago Become Reality

Robots-Dreams has an excellent post about AT&T advertisements from 1993 (16 years ago!) in which predictions about the future turned [...]

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