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Does anyone still try to predict the future of technology?

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cstanton over 5 years ago

Living in the UK I remember shows like 'Tomorrows World' where we'd see revolutionary new types of electronics and hardware...

 

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There've even been predictive books such as 'the science of science fiction' and other 'retro futurism' such as:

 

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I like to browse https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroFuturism from time to time to see what 'predictions' have came true, and see what was off the mark...

 

Have you seen anything like this now, predicting the future? Either in fiction or non fiction? Perhaps there's some TV show that I've not seen, or maybe a YouTube channel?

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    dougw over 5 years ago

    Ray Kurzweil claims 86% accuracy since 1990.

    Of 147 predictions for 2009, 115 have been correct and 12 within a couple of years.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd17c5m4kdM&ab_channel=CInnovationGlobal

    Check out his many YouTube videos....

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    dougw over 5 years ago

    Ray Kurzweil claims 86% accuracy since 1990.

    Of 147 predictions for 2009, 115 have been correct and 12 within a couple of years.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd17c5m4kdM&ab_channel=CInnovationGlobal

    Check out his many YouTube videos....

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