Randy wuller <[email protected]> wrote: > > I also think it is self evident that we likely have NO idea what the world > will be like in 87 years, what advances will have been achieved, what world > economics will look like or the state of energy production. >
Actually, you would be surprised how well some people can predict the future of technology. I have a book first published in 1893, "Today Then." It is subtitled "America's best minds look at 100 years into the future on the occasion of the 1893 world's Columbian exposition." This is a collection of essays by leading experts on various subjects. Most of the articles about economics and society are wrong, some of them absurdly wrong. However, experts such as Westinghouse made specific predictions about technology that were remarkably accurate, such as the likely speed of freight transportation railroad trains. Arthur Clarke did a pretty good job predicting the Internet in 1963. See: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJreviewofpr.pdf - Jed
