from slashdot:
Ian Pearson, a British futurist, has produced a sort of timeline of the future, which provides a simultaneously hopeful and bleak look into the coming decades. Mr. Pearson has evidently had a fairly high success rate; a timeline he produced in 1991 was about 85% accurate. An article on Yahoo news has a summary.http://www.btexact.com/white_papers/downloads/WP106.pdf
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020217/tc_nm/life_britain_future_dc_2&cid=581
interesting to see a possible future we all thought we'd never experience. look at the dates and figure out how old you will be when these things potentially happen.
excerpts:
Confessions to AI priest - 2004
Frequent use of multiple Net identities cause personality disorders - 2005
Orgasm by email - 2010
First manned mission to Mars - 2015
Creation of the Matrix - 2025
Artificial brain - 2035
mox