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NO.PREDICTIONDURATIONPREDICTOR

612. The spirit of the current Constitution of the United States will not be in force continuously for 1000 years. At some point at or before its millennium, it will have been suspended, revoked, superseded or otherwise have ceased to be considered in full legal force. 776 years
02011-02787
Bruno B.A. Parga

611. Bitcoins will outperform the US Dollar, Gold, Silver, and the stock market by over 100 times over the next two years. 2 years
02011-02013
Roger K Ver

607. By Dec 31, 2013 the total volume of payments denominated in Facebook Credits (or any replacement introduced by Facebook) will meet or exceed $16 billion in a three month period. 3 years
02011-02013
Shamir Karkal

605. “By December 31, 2020, synthetic solar energy (fusion) will have been shown to be a technically feasible, by an experiment demonstrating a controlled fusion reaction producing more harnessable energy than was used to ignite it.” 9 years
02011-02020
Danny Hillis

597. By January 21, 2016, Facebook will not have the largest market share of social network users who log in at least once per day. 5 years
02011-02016
John Feminella

596. By 2050, less than 20% of the United States will attend church on a regular basis (at least 3 times a month) 39 years
02011-02049
Stefan Wilson

594. Within twenty years, evidence of human-induced anthropogenic global warming and its deleterious effects will be unequivocal. 20 years
02010-02030
Edwin J Adlerman

590. Friends of the Earth (US) will no longer be fighting against nuclear power by December 2015. 5 years
02010-02015
Stewart Brand

589. Within 50 years it will be the dominant paradigm within particle physics that all leptons and quarks are each composed of three pairs of two opposite types of black hole and that a pair of these black holes, when merged, form the underlying units from which the universe is composed. 50 years
02010-02060
mike j lawrence

588. China's current regime will be overthrown or reformed (another political Party come into power) before 2020 9 years
02010-02019
Liu Liu

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