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Sites that claim to predict the future of society in a way that may be later verified.

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• 2012: Dire Gnosis

  http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/
  Prophecies focussed on the year AD 2012 with sources including calendrical systems, visions, religions, archaeology, tribal prophecies, NDEs, OOBEs, contemporary shamanism.

• 21st century - Wikipedia

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21st_century
  User-supported 21st century timeline plus predictions for the future.

• A Brief History of the Apocalypse: The Future

  http://www.abhota.info/
  A timeline of our apocalyptic future if religious-based predictions all come true.

• A Future Timeline of Humanity and the Universe

  http://humanknowledge.net/SocialScience/Futurology/Timeline.html
  Predicts technological and sociological developments over the next millennium, and forecasts the ultimate destiny of humanity and the universe. Gets better the farther out.

• Arthur C. Clarke's Predictions

  http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/frame.html?main=/news/news_single.html?id%3D686
  Science fiction king's predictions about the future on Kurzweil AI Net.

• Book Review: The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence, by Ray Kurzweil

  http://www.mikeogara.net/bookreviews/taosm/
  Book discusses Moore's Law (computers double in "intelligence" every two years) and how AI will inevitably surpass human intelligence in about 20 years.

• Dr. David Passig

  http://www.passig.com/
  Futurist lecturer-consultant who specializes in technological, social and educational forecasting. Materials in English and Hebrew.

• Failing Predictions:. Future society

  http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/21stcent.html
  Claims that predictions usually fail. Nevertheless gives a summary of unsolved conflicts in present-day society that will affect the future.

• Falling Forward

  http://www.briandanaakers.com/falling.html
  Science fiction writer Brian Dana Akers' predictions for the 21st century.

• Forecast Puts Earth's Future Under a Cloud

  http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2006/aug/15/climatechange.climatechangeenvironment
  An overview of scientists' predictions of the impact of global temperatures rise on climate change. Guardian, Science.

• Generational Dynamics

  http://www.generationaldynamics.com/
  Analyzes historical events through the flow of generations, comparing today's generational attitudes to those of the past, thereby producing analysis and forecasts of news, politics, culture and finance.

• h2g2 - Predicting the Future

  http://h2g2.com/entry/A216433
  Users can make predictions about the future for later comparison.

• Humanity's Future

  http://humanknowledge.net/SocialScience/Futurology.html
  Forecasts humanity's next two millennia to identify technological, sociopolitical, industrial and academic developments.

• Life in the Future

  http://www.alittlehistory.com/future.htm
  General predictions for the year 2010.

• Long Bets

  http://www.longbets.org/
  Discussion and wagers on important future events.

• Mooneyham's Speculative Timeline

  http://www.jrmooneyham.com/future_history_timeline.html
  A timeline of the future based on technological and scientific predictions.

• Moore's Law - Is the End Upon Us?

  http://www.ausairpower.net/OSR-0700.html
  An article by Carlo Kopp analyzing the behaviour of Moore's Law and speculating on likely future outcomes.

• Phrenicea

  http://www.phrenicea.com/
  Presents a futuristic scenario based on the ultimate outcome of the Internet and biotechnology revolutions; promotes discussion and debate of present-day technological and social trends.

• Predicto.net

  http://predicto.net/
  Consensus view of the future based on user generated predictions.

• Retro Future

  http://retrofuture.com/
  Twentieth century predictions of future technology that never happened.

• Take Hold of the Future

  http://www.globalchange.com/
  Offers many videos, magazine articles, and books on all aspects of the future by Dr. Patrick Dixon.

• The Future of Humanity

  http://www.asimovonline.com/oldsite/future_of_humanity.html
  A transcript of a lecture given by Dr. Isaac Asimov at Newark College of Engineering.

• The Global Technology Revolution: Summary

  http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1307/MR1307.sum.html
  Predicts impact of technology on life in the year 2015.

• The Millennium Calendar

  http://www.skypoint.com/members/camilian/prophecy/
  Chronological schedule of predicted and actual events linked to millennial prophecies, including NASA space launches. Runs from Rapture expected in 1998 to end of the world in 3797.

• The World of 2088

  http://www.washington.edu/alumni/columns/june98/2088.html
  What the world will be like according to the University of Washington.

• The Year 2012

  http://www.theyear2012.blogspot.com/
  News, speculation, and prophecy on the year 2012.

• Using World History to Predict the Future

  http://www.worldhistorysite.com/prediction.html
  Civilizations have predictable life cycles.

• Web of Fate

  http://www.weboffate.com/
  A social experiment that harnesses the collective intelligence of the web to visualize and uncover hidden relationships among future events.

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