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  Okay, stand back! - I'm about to predict the future! (And unlike Nostradamus I'm not going to hedge the predictions in ambiguity until they become meaningless).



Most clothes and shoes you buy will be exactly tailored to your specific body shape by computer. CONFIDENCE: 90%
TIMESCALE: 20 Years SERIOUSNESS: 100%




The Internet based on the single TCP/IP protocol family will undergo the biggest crash the computer world has ever seen and be the cause of a major economic ressession. CONFIDENCE: 100%
TIMESCALE: 10 Years SERIOUSNESS: 100%




Microsoft will fall by 2020 CONFIDENCE: 100%
TIMESCALE: 20 Years SERIOUSNESS: 100%




TCP/IP will be replaced by 100s of similar protocols in a process of diversification. CONFIDENCE: 90%
TIMESCALE: 10 Years SERIOUSNESS: 100%




Processor time will become a commodity. CONFIDENCE: 100%
TIMESCALE: 10 Years SERIOUSNESS: 100%




The USA will fall - empires never go on forever. CONFIDENCE: 100%
TIMESCALE: 50 Years SERIOUSNESS: 100%




Machines will think. CONFIDENCE: 99%
TIMESCALE: 20 Years SERIOUSNESS: 100%




Captain kirk and the rest of the orignal star trek crew will make 100 more films - via the gift of computer re-creation and simulation. Hopefully they'll write the scripts too! CONFIDENCE: 100%
TIMESCALE: 30 Years SERIOUSNESS: 50%




Aliens will hack into our internet. CONFIDENCE: 50%
TIMESCALE: 50 Years SERIOUSNESS: 5%




Internet access will become a basic human right. CONFIDENCE: 80%
TIMESCALE: 20 Years SERIOUSNESS: 100%




Every form of encryption will be broken, circumvented and shown to be useless. CONFIDENCE: 99%
TIMESCALE: 30 Years SERIOUSNESS: 100%




The euro will fail... CONFIDENCE: 90%
TIMESCALE: 10 Years SERIOUSNESS: 100%




They'll discover a cure for religion. CONFIDENCE: 10%
TIMESCALE: 100 Years SERIOUSNESS: 5%






  Tell me, what do you predict will happen? (I'll add it here).
Prediction:

Timescale:     Confidence %:     Seriousness %:     




Reader's Predictions!

No sex for human regeneration. CONFIDENCE: 100%
TIMESCALE: 20 Years SERIOUSNESS: 100%




JDC will discover the meaning of life. CONFIDENCE: 100%
TIMESCALE: 5 Years SERIOUSNESS: 103%



Heh heh, I don't know about actually finding the answer, but I'd like to think I was in some small way involved in the search!



A Recession in Britain. CONFIDENCE: 99%
TIMESCALE: 2 Years SERIOUSNESS: 100%




India will be richest country in the world. CONFIDENCE: 100%
TIMESCALE: 20 Years SERIOUSNESS: 100%




Humans will not manufacture anything...CAD and CAM will replace them full scale. CONFIDENCE: 100%
TIMESCALE: 15 Years SERIOUSNESS: 100%




People will no longer be born, they will be grown like plants. CONFIDENCE: 80%
TIMESCALE: 25 Years SERIOUSNESS: 90%




The US will wage war on China. CONFIDENCE: 90%
TIMESCALE: 15 Years SERIOUSNESS: 100%




More homosexuals. CONFIDENCE: 98%
TIMESCALE: 25 Years SERIOUSNESS: 95%



This one is interesting in an odd kinda way. I wonder exactly why this reader thinks there will be an increase in the gay population? Is he thinking of a social reason, like, more people 'coming out', or is there a more scientific rational behind the comment?



Doctors won't use knives anymore they'll use lasers to cut and stitch in one go. CONFIDENCE: 80%
TIMESCALE: 35 Years SERIOUSNESS: 100%




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