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NO.PREDICTIONDURATIONPREDICTOR
282.
THE world?s slowest concert, which began on September 5, 2001 and which is scheduled to take 639 years, will still be performed at its half-time interval, wich is planned for the year 2319.
313 years
02007-02319
Imre Bondar
270.
By 2025, more than 50% of desktop computers in the world will be running an open-source operating system.
18 years
02006-02025
Adam Dingle
267.
By 2010, the use of dial-up modems will represent less than 5 percent of all Internet access (represented as a percentage of all households) in the United States. As part of this prediction, I expect that at that time, dial-up service will cost significantly more than the slowest alternative, which will be substantially faster than dial-up.
3 years
02006-02010
Glenn I Fleishman
266.
There will be a quantum computer with over 100 qubits of processing capability sold either as a hardware system or whose use is made available as a commercial service by Dec 31, 2010
4 years
02006-02010
brian wang
262.
By the year 2050, there will be at least 1 green autotrophic person on the Earth...
44 years
02006-02050
Emre Sokullu
259.
Within a decade Wal-Mart (WMT) shares cease to be listed on the NYSE as a result bankruptcy, being taken over/private, or being delisted by the exchange.
10 years
02006-02016
Michael Kreusch
257.
Hydrocarbon fuels will be the "fuel of choice" for personal transportation for the next 50 years
50 years
02006-02056
John T Hoagland
252.
By year 2036, there will be at least 1 man alive in the U.S. who has fathered 150 children.
? years
02006-???
Baris Karadogan
246.
The world will not reach 'Peak Oil' by 2010.
I have invited Jeremy Leggett, a champion of the peak oil concept and author of "Half gone: oil, gas, hot air and the global energy crisis", to bet against this prediction.
4 years
02006-02010
Clive D Bates
244.
Steve Jobs will be nominated for Presdident of the United States, by one of the two major political parties in 2012.
6 years
02006-02012
Tyrone Boyd