Predictions: The History of the Future

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...

As part of a new Contrafabulists' project, we are monitoring predictions that technologists make each week... Education Week’s “Market Brief” rewrites a market research press release, predicting that “As more computing devices are available in K–12 classrooms, the market for ed-tech software and tools and back-end administrative technology platforms, is...

As part of this new Contrafabulists' project, we will be tracking on predictions that technologists make each week... Harvard Business School professor (and the person who coined the phrase "disruptive innovation") Clayton Christensen has doubled down on his prediction that half of all universities will be bankrupt in 10 to...

As part of this new Contrafabulists' project, we will be tracking on predictions that technologists make each week... Facebook predicts that “over the next 2 years, we will be building systems that demonstrate the capability to type at 100 wpm by decoding neural activity devoted to speech.” Elon Musk predicts...

We have started work on a new Contrafabulists project. We will track the predictions made about the future; and we'll see who's right, who's wrong, and who's committed to a certain technological vision of tomorrow. How many years until self-driving cars? How many years until robots take our jobs? What's...