On the Record: Predictions
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NO.PREDICTIONDURATIONPREDICTOR
127.
Microsoft will be have the largest market capitalization of any publicly traded company in the world by 2015.
12 years
02003-02015
1 future
123.
Downtown American cities in two hundred years will look pretty much as they do now.
200 years
02003-02203
Kevin Kelly
122.
There will be only three significant currencies used in the world by 2063. More than 95 % of the countries in the world will use one of them.
60 years
02003-02063
Kevin Kelly
121.
One hundred years from now the world's governments will formally and legally recognize the basic human right of mobility: a person may live anywhere on earth if they agree to obey local laws.
100 years
02003-02103
Kevin Kelly
119.
China will be considered a Christian nation, with at least 33% of its residents identifying themselves as Christians, by the year 2085.
82 years
02003-02085
Kevin Kelly
115.
By 2100 racism will no longer be a significant phenomenon in most countries of the world.
97 years
02003-02100
Bill Moore
112.
By 2025, at least 25 of the 30 stocks currently in the Dow Jones Industrial Average will be dropped from the index and replaced with other companies.
22 years
02003-02025
Stephen R Waite
110.
Within 100 years the citizens and companies of a large and prosperous country in excess of 100 million people will no longer pay taxes of any kind.
100 years
02003-02103
Robert Thibadeau
106.
By 2025 at least 50% of all U.S. citizens residing within the United States will have some form of technology embedded in their bodies for the purpose of tracking and identification.
22 years
02003-02025
Douglas C Hewes
105.
As of March 7th, 2005, Osama bin Laden is dead.
2 years
02003-02005
Thomas L Holaday
