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1970
 Alvin Toffler (b.1928) "Future Shock," and argued that technology was changing so rapidly that individuals could find themselves strangers in their own cultures.
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1995
 Barry Minkin published his "Future In Sight," a book that details the 100 trends that will most impact business and the world economy beyond the year 2000.
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1995
 Carl Sagan (1934-1996) wrote "A Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space."
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1996
 Eliezer Yudkowsky (16) set up the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI). He and a group of followers, dubbed transhumanists, believed that a kind of artificial intelligence, a super intelligence, will emerge over the next 25 years. "The Singularity is the technological creation of smarter than human intelligence."
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1998 Jan 4
 The History of the Future Museum, a part of the Star Trek: The Experience, a $70 million attraction, was scheduled to open at the Las Vegas Hilton.
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2001
 Paul Halpern authored "The Pursuit of Destiny." It traced the predictive efforts of science and other disciplines through history.
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2009
 George Friedman authored “The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century.
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2011
 Laurence Smith authored “The New North: The World in 2050.”
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2020 Apr 26
 Israel's Foreign Ministry condemned a new Egyptian TV drama set in the year 2120 that predicts Israel's destruction as well as the breakup of the United States. The Egyptian series “El-Nehaya” — Arabic for “The End” — is about a computer engineer living in a dystopian future dominated by cyborg clones.
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2020
 A survey in 2006 by the Pew Internet and American Life Project said machines after 2020 will become intelligent, evolve rapidly, and could end up treating humans as pets.
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2055
 In 2015 Masayoshi Son (58), the Japanese founder and CEO of SoftBank, proposed that the artifical intelligence will exceed the human kind by about this time in an event call the Singularity.
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2100
 Demographers in 1990 estimate that by this time the world’s population will reach 10 billion people. Eight billion of these people will be living in places that have trouble sustaining their present populations. By 2015 the estimate for total population grew to 11.2 billion.
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