Futurism favors the bold: Look more than 30 years ahead, as George Orwell did in 1984 or Arthur C. Clarke in 2001, and critics will forgive your inaccuracies. We've attempted a thought experiment with far tougher standards: predicting the future that's just around the corner. We forecast some of the noteworthy events of the next 10 years, a vision of the coming decade sketched from real data, projections and facts whenever possible--though we've injected a dose of rigorous science fiction to fill in the gaps.
Check out our predictions in politics, energy, medicine, finance, society and tech....
2011: Cyberspying Comes Home
Russian scientists uncover giant U.S./Israeli cyber espionage network.
2011: Wheels Up
The Terrafugia Transition flying car goes on sale for $200,000.
2012: Tablet Trustbusting
Dept. of Justice probes Apple over monopoly of tablet computer market.
2014: Incredible HULCs
US Marines deploy tens of thousands of HULC3 exoskeletons to soldiers in Afghanistan. Lockheed Martin suit increases strength, endurance.
2016: Virtual Jobs
America's first virtual world employee farm opens in South Carolina. Minimum-wage workers serve as bodyguards, gold harvesters in online games.
2018: Trans-Eurasia Express
World's fastest train arrives in Paris from Beijing, breaks 300mph record.
2019: Apple Minus Jobs
Steve Jobs retires. Pledges $50 billion upon his death to Gates Foundation. Jonathan Ive named Apple CEO.
2020: A Giant Leap for Billionaire-Kind
First privately owned spacecraft lands six men and two women on moon. Virgin Galactic charges $200 million per ticket.
Far fetched? What do you think?
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