Daniel Sinker has posted pages from Geoffrey Hoyle’s 1972 book, “2010: Living in the Future”, to help us assess whether or not we are yet “living in the future”…
Or you could go to Africa, and see all the wild game roaming around the national parks. It is very easy and cheap to travel by [...]

The over-exuberant optimism towards humanity’s future among the moons, planets, and stars, seen especially during the space-age, seems to have all but dried up in recent years.
Disappointingly, those golf trips to the moon turned out to be the final frontier. No galactic cruises, humanoid robots or self-aware artificial intelligence. No immortality, nuclear-powered vehicles or [...]

Sydney based futurist Mark Pesce previews technology trends for 2010… which include a shake up in book publishing (and reading), Google Wave, and augmented reality.
For example: point your mobile’s camera at the Opera House and watch as the screen fills up with interesting facts and figures about that landmark. Point it at a book [...]

Future events do not always unfold in the way some people think they will, as former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher could tell you:
“It will be years – not in my time – before a woman will become Prime Minister.”

Those contemplating cryonics – having their body preserved at low temperatures until they are “revived” at some future time – may have found a way to fund their future lives, and who knows, the future may be an expensive place, by way of life insurance policies that name themselves as the beneficiary.
The laws are [...]

I’ve mentioned futurologist George Freidman here before because – and say what you will about his methodology – I find his predictions fascinating.
While he foresees the rise of Turkey, Japan, and Poland as superpowers during this century, he contends the United States – despite its apparent weaknesses – will contine to be the dominant [...]

The best thing about making predictions for the far future, say 100 plus years, is that you won’t be around to face the scorn should your projections be way off the mark.
The moving house was almost spot on though, just in this (relatively) environmentally conscious age it wouldn’t be hauled along by a coal-fired steam [...]

Martin Rees, Britain’s Astronomer Royal, looks at Earth’s future – particularly the next 100 years – which he regards as a crucial time period for humanity, while speculating about what may happen in the very distant future.
Ever since Darwin, we’ve been familiar with the stupendous timespans of the evolutionary past. But most people still somehow [...]

Retirement, and superannuation payments, seem to rapidly be becoming an outdated concept.
Although the idea that “we are all getting older” is a truism, few governments, employers or individuals have yet come to terms with where longer retirement is heading: the end of the whole concept. Whether we like it or not, we are going back [...]

Despite being somewhat unrealistic, Star Trek’s premise of an optimistic future plays a large part in the long lived popularity of the franchise.
Of all science-fiction drama in the past half-century, Star Trek was based on a hopeful view of the future – one where the “infinite possibilities of existence”, as the character Q said in [...]