There have been various famous predictions made throughout history, including those by scientists based on the scientific method, theoretical non-fiction predictions of social and technological change of futurologists, economic forecasts of economists regarding financial markets, wealth and resources, philosophical predictions of the perfectibility of man, religious and teleological predictions, and the fictional predictions of science fiction. For a List of scientists, see: List of anthropologists List of astronomers List of biologists List of chemists List of computer scientists List of economists List of engineers List of geologists List of inventors List of mathematicians List of meteorologists List of physicists Scientist pairs List of scientist pairs See... Scientific method is a body of techniques for investigating phenomena, acquiring new knowledge, or correcting and integrating previous knowledge. ... For the book by Chuck Palahniuk titled Non-fiction, see Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories. ... Social refers to human society or its organization. ... Technology (Gr. ... Futurology or futures studies (called futurism in the United States) is the study of the medium to long-term future, by extrapolating present technological, economic or social trends, or by attempting to predict future trends. ... Economic forecasting is the process of making predictions about the economy as a whole or in part. ... Economists are scholars conducting research in the field of economics. ... In finance, financial markets facilitate: The raising of capital (in the capital markets); The transfer of risk (in the derivatives markets); and International trade (in the currency markets). ... Philosophy (from the Greek words philos and sophia meaning love of wisdom) is understood in different ways historically and by different philosophers. ... Religious is a term with both a technical definition and folk use. ... Teleology is the philosophical study of purpose (from the Greek teleos, perfect, complete, which in turn comes from telos, end, result). ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ...

Predictions can be further categorised as good or bad, successful or failed. For some, the jury is still out, such as those of the Malthusian prophets of doom regarding sustainability and overpopulation and the Cornucopian and Utopian futures of abundance and perfection. The Rev. ... The Earth Day flag includes a NASA photo. ... Map of countries by population density (See List of countries by population density. ... A cornucopian is someone who posits that there are few intractable natural limits to growth, and believes the planet can provide a practically limitless abundance of natural resources. ... See Utopia (disambiguation) for other meanings of this word Utopia, in its most common and general meaning, refers to a hypothetical perfect society. ... Look up abundance in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For other uses, see Perfection (disambiguation). ...

Often, the difference between pessimistic and optimistic prediction depends on attitudes such as technophilia, technophobia, and political / social bias. Pessimism, generally, describes a belief that things are bad, and tend to become worse; or that looks to the eventual triumph of evil over good; it contrasts with optimism, the contrary belief in the goodness and betterment of things generally. ... The opposite of pessimism, optimism is a lifeview where one looks upon the world as a positive place. ... Technophilia is, in its simplest definition, a strong enthusiasm for technology, especially newer technologies such as computers, the Internet, cell phones and home theater. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Politics is the process by which decisions are made within groups. ... Social refers to human society or its organization. ...

Science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke is famous for his three laws of prediction. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill famously argued that to understand the future it was necessary to understand the past. Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE, Sri Lankabhimanya (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) was a British (lived in Sri Lanka since 1956) science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, most famous for the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, written in collaboration with director Stanley Kubrick, a collaboration which led also to... Arthur C. Clarke formulated the following three laws of prediction: When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. ... Churchill redirects here. ...

Nostradamus is perhaps the world's most famous author of prophecies. Nostradamus: original portrait by his son Cesar Michel de Nostredame (December 14, 1503 – July 2, 1566), usually Latinized to Nostradamus, was a French apothecary and reputed seer who published collections of prophecies that have since become famous world-wide. ... This article refers to the topic of prophecy as the purported telling of future events or supernatural revelations. ...

Prophets of doom and Cornucopians

Main article: Cornucopian

• An Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Malthus in 1798 started the fears of a Malthusian catastrophe where overpopulation returns people to mere subsistence.
• The Population Bomb by Paul R. Ehrlich in 1968 predicted disasters due to Neo-Malthusian concerns.
• The Limits to Growth (1972, by Club of Rome) -often, erroneously, accused of predicting the inevitable exhaustion of natural resources. See the main article for more detail.

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Utopians and Dystopians

• Utopia - main article lists many variants and examples, plus a history of the idea.
• Dystopia - main article lists many variants and examples, plus a history of the idea
• William Godwin had published his utopian work Enquiry concerning Political Justice in 1793, with later editions in 1796 and 1798. Also, Of Avarice and Profusion (1797).
• Marquis de Condorcet had published his utopian vision of social progress and the perfectibility of man Esquisse d'un Tableau Historique des Progres de l'Espirit Humain (The Future Progress of the Human Mind) in 1794.
• Looking Backward: 2000-1887 was written by Edward Bellamy in 1888. The novel imagined that by 2000, the United States would be a socialist utopia, with far shorter work weeks for menial laborers and far greater leisure time for all workers. His novel predicted things such as skyscrapers, debit cards, and a device used to hear and view concerts in the home that resembles a modern television.
• Herbert Spencer argued for inevitable social progress, and helped found Social Darwinism.

For other uses, see Utopia (disambiguation). ... This article is about the philosophical concept and literary form. ... William Godwin William Godwin (3 March 1756 – 7 April 1836) was an English political and miscellaneous writer, considered one of the important precursors of both utilitarian and liberal anarchist thought. ... See Utopia (disambiguation) for other meanings of this word Utopia, in its most common and general meaning, refers to a hypothetical perfect society. ... “Condorcet” redirects here. ... Social progress is defined as a progress of society, which makes the society better in the general view of its members. ... Looking Backward: 2000-1887 is a utopian novel by Edward Bellamy, a lawyer and writer from western Massachusetts, and was first published in 1888. ... Edward Bellamy, circa 1889. ... For other uses, see Utopia (disambiguation). ... For other persons named Herbert Spencer, see Herbert Spencer (disambiguation). ... Social progress is defined as a progress of society, which makes the society better in the general view of its members. ... Social Darwinism is the idea that Charles Darwins theory can be extended and applied to the social realm, i. ...

Scientific prediction

Main article: Prediction

• The existence of Neptune was predicted through mathematical modelling based on Sir Isaac Newton's Law of gravity
• Radio waves were predicted by James Clerk Maxwell
• Ultimate fate of the universe
• Engines of Creation by K. Eric Drexler which involves molecular nanotechnology changing the world, and introduces the grey goo scenario.
• Final anthropic principle - highly contentious prediction bordering on philosophy

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Futurists

• Future Shock by Alvin Toffler considered change moving too fast for humans to cope.
• The End of History and the Last Man (1992, by Francis Fukuyama), heralding the arrival of the "end point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government." Now generally regarded to be inaccurate compared to current events.
• The Clash of Civilizations by Samuel P. Huntington, published in Foreign Affairs, Volume 72, Number 3, Summer 1993 and later expanded into a book states "the fundamental source of conflict in this new world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic. The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural. Nation states will remain the most powerful actors in world affairs, but the principal conflicts of global politics will occur between nations and groups of different civilizations. The clash of civilizations will dominate global politics. The fault lines between civilizations will be the battle lines of the future."ABC
• The Coming Technological Singularity (1993, by Vernor Vinge) - a prediction of imminent acceleration of progress caused by increasing speed of computers and developments in AI.
• An Illustrated Speculative Timeline of Future Technology and Social Change (1993-2004, by J.R. Mooneyham) [1]
• Ray Kurzweil concerned with the idea of the singularity and many more optimistic technological and transhumanist predictions. He has had a pretty good track record, as well.
• "Why the future doesn't need us" (April 2000, by Bill Joy) - an essay warning about the dangers of robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology to humanity. The essay has achieved wide exposure because of Bill Joy's prominence.
• Visions of the World to Come (November 2001, by Arthur C. Clarke) - Clarke presents a speculative timeline of the 21st century.
• Our Final Hour by Martin Rees in 2003. The book presents the notion that the Earth and human survival are in far greater danger from the potential effects of modern technology than is commonly realised. Hence the 21st century may be a critical moment in history when humanity's fate is decided. Rees gained controversy, and notoriety, by estimating that the probability of extinction before 2100 AD is around 50%. This is based on the possibility of malign or accidental release of destructive technology and gained some attention as he is a well-regarded astronomer.
• Dark Age Ahead by Jane Jacobs in 2004. As it implies the book warns of a pessimistic future, in this case caused by a decay in science, community, and education.
• Tomorrow Now: Imagining the Next 50 Years by Bruce Sterling in 2002. A popular science approach on futurology, reflecting technology, politics and culture of the next 50 years.

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Economic forecasting

• Oil Storm is a 2005 television docudrama written by James Erskine and Caroline Levy. The movie deals with the impact that a Category 5 downgrading to a Category 4 hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico would have if it hit New Orleans, destroyed large numbers of offshore oil rigs in the Gulf, and crippled the primary nerve center of the Gulf Coast petroleum. (aired June 5, 2005)
  • Hurricane Katrina Category 3 (morning of August 29, 2005)
• In 1987, Ravi Batra predicted an economic depression in his best-selling book, The Great Depression of 1990. He subsequently wrote other books on surviving economic upheaval.
• In 1996, economist Alan Greenspan famously predicted that there was irrational exuberance in the stock market on Dec 5, 1996. His warning went unheeded and the stock market continued to boom in the late 1990's until the stock market downturn of 2000 and 2001, when it became evident that the warning had been correct.

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Religious futures

• Bible prophecy
• Prophecy
• Armageddon
• Apocalypse
• Heaven
• Nirvana
• Paradise
• Purgatory
• Hell
• Teleology
• Destiny

Bible prophecy, or biblical prophecy is the belief that the exegesis and hermeneutics that relate to those scriptures containing various prophecies regarding global politics, natural disasters, the future of the nation of Israel, the coming of a Messiah and a Messianic Kingdom, and the ultimate destiny of humankind are true. ... For other uses, see Prophecy (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Armageddon (disambiguation). ... St. ... For other uses, see Heaven (disambiguation). ... This article is about the Buddhist concept. ... Paradise, Jan Bruegel Paradise is an English word from Persian roots that is generally identified with the Garden of Eden or with Heaven. ... Illustration for Dantes Purgatorio (18), by Gustave Doré, an imaginative picturing of Purgatory. ... This article is about the theological or philosophical afterlife. ... Teleology (Greek: telos: end, purpose) is the philosophical study of design, purpose, directive principle, or finality in nature or human creations. ... For other uses, see Destiny (disambiguation). ...

Science fiction

• Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic science fiction - comprehensive listing of humanity's worst fears
• Future history - list of common backgrounds created by science-fiction authors for their stories
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley in 1932 imagined a rigid, yet superficially "happy", dystopia that controls people through a mixture of mind control and biotechnology
• Nineteen Eighty-Four (1948, by George Orwell) - a dystopian book set in Oceania, a totalitarian state that emerged in the Americas and the British Empire. The book extrapolates the reality of contemporary Stalinist Russia and Hitler's Germany. The main protagonist is Winston Smith whose job involves supporting the historical revisionism and propaganda of the political regime. Many original concepts from the book, such as doublethink, thought crime and newspeak have since entered popular consciousness.
• Foundation series by Isaac Asimov. The new science of psychohistory can simulate history and extrapolate the present into the future.
• The author H.G. Wells wrote several works predicting future scientific advances and often exploring the problems technology cause humanity. He was especially adept at predicting the future role of airplanes in warfare. His 1901 book, Anticipations imagined trains, cars, sexual freedom, and eugenics. In The World Set Free, published in 1914, he eerily predicted the creation of the atom bomb. His 1933 work, Shape of Things to Come, foresaw the extensive use of aerial bombardment in warfare. This was later adapted into the widely seen and critically important Alexander Korda science fiction film Things to Come.
• Paris in the 20th Century is a science fiction novel by Jules Verne written in 1863 that features detailed descriptions of a world of glass skyscrapers, high-speed trains, gas-powered automobiles, calculators, and a worldwide communications network. It was not published in Verne's lifetime, and was only discovered by his great-grandson in 1989. It was published in 1994.
• Make Room! Make Room! - novel by Harry Harrison that predicted overpopulation in 1999 resulted in an unsuspecting population being sustained through cannibalism. Made into the movie Soylent Green.
• Logan's Run is a novel by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson, published in 1967. Describing a dystopian future society in which the population is kept young by euthanizing everyone who reaches a certain age. This neatly avoids the problem of overpopulation.
• Stand on Zanzibar - John Brunner's 1968 vision of overpopulation in 2010
• Z.P.G. 1972 film featured an overpopulated, very polluted future Earth, whose world government practices Zero Population Growth, executing persons who violate the 30-year ban on procreation.
• Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams. Deep thought famously predicts the great computer that is to come (the Earth) which provides the equally famous Answer to The Ultimate Question Of Life, the Universe and Everything.
• Up the Walls of the World a 1978 novel by James Tiptree, Jr describes life in a huge polar vortex on a Gas giant planet. Such a vortex was discovered on Saturn by astronomers in 2006. [2].
• The Twentieth Century (1882, by Albert Robida) - a book by a French author set in 1952 Paris, with a plethora of illustrations.

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Iosif (usually anglicized as Joseph) Vissarionovich Stalin (Russian: Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин), original name Ioseb Jughashvili (Georgian: იოსებ ჯუღაშვილი; see Other names section) (December 21, 1879[1] – March 5, 1953) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and leader of the Soviet Union. ... Hitler redirects here. ... A protagonist is the main figure of a piece of literature or drama and has the main part or role. ... This article is about the character in Nineteen Eighty-Four. ... Historical revisionism is the reexamination of the accepted facts and interpretations of history, with an eye towards updating it with newly discovered, more accurate, and less biased information. ... 1967 Chinese propaganda poster from the Cultural Revolution. ... A political system is a social system of politics and government. ... 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See also

• End of civilization
• Prescience
• Precognition
• Timeline of the future in forecasts

The end of civilization or the end of the world are phrases used in reference to human extinction scenarios, doomsday events, and related hazards which occur on a global scale. ... Prescience is the ability to predict the future through vision. ... Precognition (from the Latin præ-, “prior to,” + cognitio, “a getting to know”) denotes a form of extra-sensory perception wherein a person is able to perceive information about places or events before they happen through paranormal means. ... Timeline of the future in forecasts is a list by future chronology of various predictions. ...

External references

• Famous bad predictions from Things People Said
• Bad Predictions from Anecdotage.com
• The Coming Technological Singularity, presented at VISION-21 Symposium, March 30-31, 1993
• Why the future doesn't need us, Wired, April 2000
• Arthur C. Clarke Offers His Vision of the Future, presented at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, November 30, 2001
• Explore the inventions and ideas of science fiction writers