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NO.PREDICTIONDURATIONPREDICTOR
92.
By 2020 a completely propellantless (no material particles expelled for propulsion) or "field propulsion-type" aerospace vehicle will land on the Moon.
18 years
02002-02020
jay c dillon
88.
Major online internet useage research firms will record that over 3 billion people in 2025 managed their incoming and outgoing digital information using a graphical user interface based on Quadrant Theory - as described in Marshall McLuhan's "Tetrad" model in Laws of Media, Ken Wilber's Holon in Sex, Ecology Spirituality, and R Buckminster Fuller's Tetrahedral structures in Synergetics.
23 years
02002-02025
Judah Thornewill
86.
By the year 2150, over 50% of schools in the USA or Western Europe will require classes in defending against robot attacks.
147 years
02002-02150
Alex K Rubin
78.
By 2070, at least six countries will have officially implemented a 4-day working week.
68 years
02002-02070
Christophe Cauvy
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