On the Record: Predictions

77. By 2050, at least two pan-regional currencies, modeled on the Euro, will be used in the world. 48 years
02002-02050 Christophe Cauvy

76. By the year 2020 solar electricity will be as cheap or cheaper than that produced by fossil fuels. 18 years
02002-02020 Robert A Freling

70. Moore's Law, which has defined a doubling of price/performance/value produced by semi-conductors every 12 to 18 months since 1966, will continue to deliver its exponential benefits for at least another five decades, without stopping or slowing. 50 years
02002-02052 Sheldon Renan

69. By the year 2040, AI will appear on computer viruses that will communicate with each other using a universal Internet language and will be programmed to fuse together and mutate into Computer Organs that will later be controlled by powerful search engines (Systems) diffused through out the Internet. 38 years
02002-02040 Diogo O Beltran

63. By 2012 scientists will not have developed an explanation for how images on the Shroud of Turin came to be on the cloth -an explanation that satisfies all of the physical and chemical properties of the images and does not violate basic laws of physics. 10 years
02002-02012 Daniel R Porter

44. By 2020, in real or artificial life, sustainable evolutionary progress in a genetically closed system will not have been demonstrated. 18 years
02002-02020 Brig Klyce

43. By 2030 all surgical anesthesia will be administered and monitored by computers, with no need for professional medical supervision beyond the surgeon. 28 years
02002-02030 Jason I Altman

42. That by 2024 "artificial" life emerging somewhere out of the soup of human technology will be given a Latin taxonomic name by biologists and others and declared viable for study. 22 years
02002-02024 Bruce F Damer

39. Music CDs compatible with current (2002) CD players will still be sold regularly in 2015. 13 years
02002-02015 Jacob A Walker

27. By the year 2020, the tickets to space travel - at the least to Moon, will be available over the counter. 18 years
02002-02020 Hemant Sharma

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