Forecasts for the Next 25 years

Forecasts for the Next 25 years according to the World Futurist Society

shown are 5 of 20 total

more info on these 5 and the rest of the 20 can be read here

Forecast #1

The dust bowls of the twenty-first century will dwarf those seen in the twentieth. Two giant dust bowls are now forming...

Forecast #2

Commercial space tourism will grow significantly during the coming decade. By 2021, there will be... 

Forecast #3

Nanotechnology offers hope for restoring eyesight. Flower-shaped electrodes topped with photodiodes, implanted in blind patients’ eyes, may restore their sight...

Forecast #4

Robotic earthworms will gobble up our garbage. Much of what we throw away still has value. Metals, petroleum, and other components could get additional use if we extracted them, and robotic earthworms could... 

Forecast #5

Learning will become more social and game-based, and online social gaming may soon replace textbooks in schools. The idea that students learn more when they are engage...

Members of the World Future Society have come to understand that the main purpose of studying the future is to look at what may happen if present trends continue, decide if this is desirable, and, if not, work to change it. The ultimate goal of studying the future is to make it better.