Predicting the Future
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The initial listing of predictions about the future has been collected from our previous years efforts and other recommended sources.
Please use the edit link above to add more (see format notes), or add comments on how or why you think they are important. As is the convention throughout the Horizon Project Wiki, we ask you to identify items you think are of high interest to us, as I have here [LJ], as a means of helping start the sifting process.
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- 2020 Computing: The Creativity Machine
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v440/n7083/full/440411a.html
What will emerge from using the Internet as a research tool? The answer, Vernor Vinge argues, will be limited only by our imaginations. [AL]
- Future Tense
http://tnl.net/blog/2006/05/10/future-tense-intro/
Some of the trends I’m starting to look at in terms of defining how the next generation will work include: The rise of always-on high-speed internet connection; The IPzation of everything; The drop in the price of real-world sensors; and The rise of participatory applications. Looking at each of the components individually, it is hard to form a picture of where the world is going. However, looking at them together and how they interact, a picture starts to form.[SEM]
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- The World in 2058
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/04/18/915263.aspx
"How will the world look in the year 2058? Sixty thinkers from around the world rise to that challenge in "The Way We Will Be 50 Years From Today," a collection of essays edited by longtime journalist Mike Wallace."
- Future of Computing Web Focus 2020
http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/futurecomputing/index.html
...with revolutionary technologies such as the quantum computer edging towards reality, what will the relationship between computing and science bring us over the next 15 years?
- Heaven or Hell?
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/06/12/introduction/index.html
Humanity is on the verge of an incredible future. Technologies that seem like science fiction are already becoming science fact as researchers develop innovations that will transform the very essence of what it is to be human.In this series, CNN talks to three scientists about how technology will shape our future.- Part one: Will the future be better than we can imagine?
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/06/19/heaven/index.html - Part two: Will the future be worse than our nightmares?
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/06/26/hell/index.html - Part three: Will the future be more human than technological?
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/07/10/prevail/index.html
- Part one: Will the future be better than we can imagine?
- A New Way of Thinking about Technology
http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=224
An Interview with Futurists Joel Barker and Scott Erickson.
- Pundits Discuss the Internet's Future
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB114597841180135354-8V1ktSZf4V5LRng8DLhWkI_X8t4_20070504.html
In the past 10 years the Internet has emerged as a global network that enables instant communications and borderless commerce.
- Web Inventor Warns Of 'Dark' Net
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5009250.stm
The web should remain neutral and resist attempts to fragment it into different services, web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has said.
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