From bio-violence, to workplaces, and overcrowding in major cities... some of these forecasts for the future make grim reading: According to the researchers, everything you will do or say will be recorded by 2030. Within the next 10 years, humans will have nanoimplants ensuring that everyone is locked into the system and everyone will have a unique IP address. What's even more alarming is that all conversations ... Read full entry

Cool. Life on the 18th of November 2008 as envisaged in 1968. I wonder if the "air-cushion" car compacts into something the size of a briefcase, like George Jetson's aerocar used to. Or, rather, will. IT'S 8 a.m., Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008, and you are headed for a business appointment 300 mi. away. You slide into your sleek, two-passenger air-cushion car, press a sequence of buttons and the national ... Read full entry

China will be the centre of world power by 2030, according to the 100 Year Forecast. A number of interesting predictions, don't you think?

In 1993, music producer Brian Eno and Wired editor Kevin Kelley, co-wrote a series of scenarios depicting the world in 2008. Some of their predictions are rather morbid, while others are humourous, and just a little telling... Everybody becomes so completely cynical about the election process that voter turnout drops to 2 percent (families and relatives of prospective politicians) until finally the "democratic process" is abandoned in favour of ... Read full entry

10 Ways the Internet (As We Know It) Will Die Number 8: The lawyers get involved. Surprised that's not the number one factor that will bring about the demise of Net 1.0... The Internet has been an experiment in free speech. That may be coming to an end. Unable to go after the sites themselves, lawyers go after the hosters and registrars. That's how Swiss banking group Julius Baer took ... Read full entry

Coming soon: superfast internet I've seen the future of the internet, and we'll no longer be surfing, we'll be "warping" (or something) and better still, it'll all be rock n roll... The internet could soon be made obsolete. The scientists who pioneered it have now built a lightning-fast replacement capable of downloading entire feature films within seconds. At speeds about 10,000 times faster than a typical broadband connection, "the grid" will ... Read full entry

Leading thinkers identify greatest challenges facing humanity Actually the "list" is not as long as I thought it would be, but that doesn't mean ticking them off as complete will be a particularly "short tail" process. Reversing the effects of ageing, reprogramming genes to prevent diseases and producing clean energy are some of the biggest challenges for the next 50 years, according to a group of leading experts. The pace of ... Read full entry

The future according to Bill Gates. Bill Gates shows us how easy it is too be wise in hindsight. He predicted computer users would soon throw out the keyboard and mouse in favour of interacting with the PC using hand gestures, and envisioned a world where computers were built into the furniture and far easier to use. I was somewhat underwhelmed by his keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show. That's what happens ... Read full entry