predicting the future

Organic Computing

If we develop expertise on how cells process information and communicate with other cells, then Organic Computation can become a reality. I think I would disagree with Craig Venter when he said...

have you ever written about a fictionalpiece and then it really happened?

have you ever written about a fictional piece and then it happened, or though about something and then it happened. this happened to me when I wrote my second book, many things became too many to...

Do you believe that there are people who can predict the future?

A long time ago I was very interested in Nostradamus the man who made predictions back in the 1500's. Yes, some of them did happen but many of them didn't. This started me on a search for other so...

Do you believe dreams can sometimes predict the future?

Just wondering....

Superstruct: (Re)Building Our Future

Our world is in deep trouble, and as the danger mounts, the Institute for the Future's Ten-Year Forecast team and Dr. Jane McGonigal have a new mission for you! IFTF recently announced Superstruct,...

Real Estate Investment based on how the market IS, not its up-ness or down-ness (aka Timing)

I read several posts lately about the dire nature of the real estate market with questions about whether now is a good time to invest based on the “badness” of the market. These are...

Happiness prediction and an Interview with Daniel Gilbert

The NYTimes has a great interview with Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert:What we've been seeing in my lab, over and over again, is that people have an inability to predict what will make us...

Community Projection: Carlos Delgado

I talked a bit about Carlos Delgado yesterday, and how you'd have to be Kreskin to know what to expect out of him next year. His power could continue to dissolve mysteriously into the ether otherwise...

Bill Gates Still Believes Speech Will Replace Keyboards

Bill Gates has been an incredibly successful businessman, but that doesn't mean he's particularly good at predicting the future of technology. Remember his claim that spam would be gone within 2...

A Sense of the Future

How do you predict the future without making a fool of yourself? You can extrapolate current trends to their logical next steps, but unless you stick to the weather -- hurricanes a-comin' next year!...

Another Brick in the Wahl

Be warned - Non Baseball Post. Scoff, SCOFF, is what I do when I hear prognosticators prognosticate. I consider convention, the wisdom of the masses, to be fairly good at predicting the future,...

HuffPo comes through again

As I mentioned in my post "The Joy of HuffPo" you don’t know what you’re missing unless you wander by there every once in a while. Today it is Erica Jong:I am so tired of pink men...

New Hampshire and Political Punditry

Needless to say, the political pundits were hilariously wrong about the New Hampshire primary. I won't hypothesize about what actually happened, other than to say that I think many voters here wanted...

Will God of War: Chains of Olympus be top scoring PSP game on Metacritic?

It’s probably just the time of the year, but following on from our previous post about fantasy game sales trading site simExchange, we’ve been getting quite engrossed in predicting the...