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Topic: predictions

Property crunches, recessions and other dud predictions from the pundits

Economy

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Jan 30, 2018

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With global economic forces looking threatening, what will 2013 bring for the Australian economy? <em>Crikey</em> intern <b>Alex Burgess</b> asks the economists to cast their predictions for the new year.

Ask the economists: will Santa be kind to the economy for 2013?

Economy

Dec 21, 2012

It’s that time of the year again -- the time that pundits make predictably erroneous predictions about the coming year.

Come in Spinner: how the so-called experts always get it wrong

Books

Jan 10, 2012

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From alien intelligence to fusion energy: a great interactive feature from <em>Scientific American</em>, exploring 12 world-changing events that could take place before 2050, how likely they are, and what they'll mean for humanity.

12 events that will change the world

Energy

May 25, 2010

In 1995, scientist and author Clifford Stoll wrote <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/106554">an article</a> for <em>Newsweek</em> declaring that the internet would never transform the way the media or government works. Oops.

Newsweek: How we got it really, really wrong on the internet

Digital

Mar 04, 2010

What will be the next Twitter, YouTube or Skype? <b>Michael Wolff</b> talks to big-name net nerds like Clay Shirky, Jeff Jarvis, Chris Anderson and Jay Rosen, and makes a few predictions of his own.

The internet’s Next Big Thing: a form guide

Digital

Feb 09, 2010

Cities under the sea, food pills, self-driving cars and man-made oceans: this was supposed to be the future! A look at the failed predictions of the 20th Century.

Where’s my flying car? Technology we never got

People & Ideas

Dec 15, 2009

From DNA origami to piezoelectric displays, <em>Popular Mechanics</em> predicts the 10 big technologies that will be making headlines next year. And check out the <a href="http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4292830.html?page=1">2009 predictions</a> for accuracy.

The 10 big tech ideas of 2010

People & Ideas

Dec 11, 2009

From Thatcher's 1969 prediction that there'd never be a British female PM in her lifetime, to the then-IBM chairman's estimate that there was a world market for "maybe five computers" in 1943, predictions about the future that failed miserably.

15 of the worst predictions ever

People & Ideas

Dec 07, 2009

Market research company Gartner has released their 2009 "Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies", declaring what the next big things in tech will be -- and what's yesterday's news. Amongst their predictions: Twitter is on the way out, e-books have hit their peak, and internet TV is on the up-and-up.

Gartner predicts tech’s hot-and-not

Digital

Aug 13, 2009

Great Scott! In 2000, the CIA wrote a report predicting upcoming issues and threats. With the benefit of hindsight, we sneer.

CIA goes back to the future

North America

May 07, 2009

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