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Category Archives: Predictions
Thinking too far ahead
One thing I have learned over the past 14 years is that you can be right about something and nobody listens. It’s all about timing and whom people listen to.You can be too early with an observation or prediction much … Continue reading
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In the future everyone will be anonymous for 15-minutes
In the future everyone will aspire to disappear for 15-minutes. But only the very rich and the very poor will achieve anything approaching total disconnection. Privacy will become the ultimate status symbol along with time.
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Predictions for 2018 (from 1968)
Lovely article in The New Yorker (part above) about what a bunch of smart people in 1968 thought 2018 might look like. Lots of things way off the mark, but a few, especially around climate change and computing, that are … Continue reading
Why technology forecasting goes wrong
Lovely set of pieces in Slate on the Future of the Future. One article in particular caught my eye, which is an analysis of 81 technology articles and press releases going back to the 1990s in which things are said … Continue reading
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Prediction of the month
In the future we will insure our memories
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The re-invention of public libraries
It’s funny. The moment someone declares something as dead, chances are that whatever it is (vinyl records, fountain pens, paper books, watches, dumb-phones, bespoke tailoring, cinema, polaroid cameras, postcards, beer, butter, cider, cycling, Russia …) it reappears, often with renewed … Continue reading
Posted in Extinctions/disappearances, Forecasts & forecasting, Libraries, Predictions
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Quote of the Week (quote of our times)
“C’est la vie, say the old folks, it goes to show you never can tell.”
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Tory Landslide
Just in case you were wondering what I think….
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Quote of the Week
“Sooner or later you’ll have a computer attached to your face.” David J. Hill.
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Future Predictions for 2050 (or before, but who can say?)
Here’s a list of some of the entries I removed from my final Mega trends & Technologies map for a variety of reasons. Gyroscopic inertial thrust engines (reactionless drive) Electrification of Africa Rise of Christianity in East Asia Cascades of … Continue reading
Posted in 2017 Trends, Maps, Predictions, Trends
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