As part of a new Contrafabulists' project, we are monitoring predictions that technologists make each week...

According to The Chicago Tribune, “Stephen Hawking now says humanity has only about 100 years to escape Earth.”

Despite all the predictions about robots being poised to take all our jobs, the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation says that this is mostly “false alarmism.” The tech industry-sponsored think tank says that, “If there is any risk for the future, it is that technological change and resulting productivity growth will be too slow, not too fast.”