A timeline of over 500 predictions of events over the next 25 years.

The Pew Internet & American Life Project asked over a thousand internet "experts" about their views on the net's future. The full report is available free online.

An article from 'Prospect' describing different ways we may be able to escape this universe.

In 2018 Greil Marcus has written an obituary of George W. Bush.

A collection of links to past visions of future cities and buildings.

A UN report looks at projections for the world population over the next 300 years.

James Kunstler's interesting thoughts on what America will be like when oil prices climb high enough to disrupt the current way of life.

Matt found the URL for the Guardian's three looking-ahead mini-mags.

The Observer, unsurprisingly, turns a speculative forecast into a terrifying certainty.

Matt Locke's been doing scenario stuff with Shell.

David Weinberger on the future of weblogging and many notes from PopTech.

Attendees of a Royal Television Society gathering voted on the most likely scenario for TV in 2010.

It's Matt Locke's turn to create some mini-scenarios.

Four interesting ideas for reversing the trend of declining votes, nicely executed.

Matt Jones has written has written some mini scenarios for the BBC about technology in 2013 and put four of them online. They're nicely done, but within a disappointingly constrained brief - technology alone just isn't that interesting.

Harper's weekly review reads like a wholly unbelievable scenario of some future disaster-filled world.

The Guardian has an article titled 'A vision of Britain in 2020: power cuts and the 3-day week,' outlining an Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) report. From the article it sounds like one of two things happened. Maybe ICE produced...

Oliver Morton reviews Martin Rees' book 'Our Final Century.' Or 'Our Final Hour' if you're in the obviously more fearful US.

Wired is ten years old this month (does that make you feel old?). The current issue contains several articles written as though its 2013; basically scenarios. (Sorry for the lack of updates. I've been trying to get on top of...

Ford Madox Ford's view of a potential London featuring "portable houses, [and] masked and numbered inhabitants."

If I had time I'd spend more time looking at this project at the BBC and make some comments. It looks interesting, but I'm too busy and my computer at home has been broken for a while now. Sorry. Anyway,...

Continuing the 'future images of London' theme, I saw 28 Days Later today because some friends recommended it. Set in Britain after a virus is released from a research lab, the scenes of a deserted London are chillingly eerie, particularly...

The current issue of MacUser UK has a fantastic cover image: a doctored photo taken from the London Eye with impossibly tall sci-fi skyscrapers towering over Westminster. It's brilliantly done and is much more evocative than a written description of...

The first session I attended today was Joseph "Crotchety Old Man" Coates's talk "The Next Thousand Years." It wasn't exciting or big on laughs, but it was still refreshing to hear thoughts about such a long-term future when the rest...

A light-hearted look at how predictions about the future are invariably wrong. Something any futurist worth their salt acknowledges of course. (via SciTech Daily)...

Lionel Shriver, an American writer, looks at how novelists have dealt with differing predictions of population change: virii, natural disasters, war or population explosion. (via Arts & Letters Daily)...

I've been reading the United Nations Environment Programme's Global Environment Outlook 3 which was released last week. It looks at the state of our world right now and what it might be over the next thirty years (the summary is...

Finally got round to the current issue of Wired which includes an interesting article about Long Bets, set up by Stewart Brand and co, which encourages people to make long-term forecasts and bet US$1,000+ on their argument. Money is kept...

I missed this a couple of weeks back. BT's futurist, Ian Pearson, keeps a timeline of developments expected to occur over the next twenty years. Here he elaborates on many of these, which are mainly technological. It's basically a list...

An interview with the sociobiologist on what the long-term future holds for humanity and the rest of the planet. He's optimistic that we'll collectively see sense before it's too late: "I think people are smart enough to act in the...

Very short pieces by children who were asked to write something about the world in one hundred years time. Mostly sweet rather than illuminating. "I wish there was stunt bikes for younger children."...

The winning essay from the competition is in the form of a letter from a Bangladeshi to an American. I must admit that it's rather dull to read. If I had to come up with a stereotypical letter from the...

An article written in 1950 about what the world will be like in the year 2000. Obviously amusing. (via Haddock)...

I've been meaning to post this for months. A series of news stories from the distant future which you can also have sent via email. Usually funny, cynical and thought-provoking jabs at the way society could be progressing. (via Nettime)...

A RAND report on the Net twenty years out, and particularly America's place within it: "American ideals, with modest refinements, would write the constitution of a global civil society, even as the American state itself would lose its primacy." (via...

A brief look at past visions of the future that never quite happened: The House of Tomorrow, The Dymaxion Car, The City of the Future, The Lustron and The House of the Future. (via Telecom-Cities)...

Subtitled "A Dialogue About the Future With Nongovernment Experts" this is the USA's National Intelligence Council's look at what the world may be like in 2015, and the role of the United States within it. One criticism could be that...

The author looks at a few potential wildcards, why we should be exploring space, and more....

A selection of features about the world twenty years hence, such as 'What You'll Need to Know in 2020 That You Don't Know Now' and '20 Ideas That Will Rule Research in the Next 20 Years.'...

A page containing a few short ideas for scenarios, inspired by Eno's Unthinkable Futures so they tend to be interesting far-out ideas. Users can add their own ideas to the page. (via Gorjuss)...

This page is just an excerpt from the full article (in Whole Earth Review, Summer 1993) that listed 80 sentence-long "unthinkable futures" thought up by Brian Eno (a musician, producer, artist, lecturer, etc.). Judging from the few listed here, I...

Forbes ASAP teams up with frogdesign to look at how a computer might function and look in ten years. (via Slashdot)...

A strange but fascinating site. It purports to be "a selection of material initially prepared for the catalogue of the Great Daytopia Exhibition scheduled for 2296 but abandoned early in 2295 after funding was withdrawn." Art, architecture, social customs, education,...

Four scenarios from a report called 'Work in the Knowledge Driven Economy' produced by the Department of Trade and Industry. However, of the four, only the most optimistic two were presented to ministers and these are almost polar opposites: one...

An annual series of lectures and discussions looking at the the world twenty years hence, taking place in America and London....

A report from a Next Twenty Years discussion, with Paul Saffo and others imagining what technology will be like in 2020 and how society will cope. (via Matt Jones)...

The New York Times has a large section on different technologies we can expect in the future: 'The Blind Date Who Is Your Destiny,' 'The Genetic Report Card That Will Tell You If Your Embryo Will Get Prostate Cancer,' 'The...

Thoughts about the kinds of vehicles we might see in the future, and how usage patterns could change....

An interesting scenario, looking back on the lead up to 2035. "Okay, here's my bottom line: By your standards, my world is fantastically advanced, but it's also gray, sagging, increasingly conservative, and visibly running out of steam." (via Slashdot)...

The design firm Ideo have come up with their vision of consumer technologies in ten years' time. Lots of good mock-ups and visualisations of what phones, watches, displays, chairs and more might look like. (via Haddock)...

Raymond Kurzweil discusses the future of the brain and AI over the next century. By 2050 a $1,000 computer will equal the processing power of the world's human brains; nanobots in our brains will enable us to cut off real...

January 2000 issue, 'The Future Gets Fun Again.' Featuring technologies which may become usable realities over the next century: head transplants, holidays in space, teleportation, new cars, nanotech, MEMS, etc. Some good, some dodgy....

Much of the article is just about the man himself, but he answers some questions about the possibilities for computers and human brain power in the future, and space travel. (via Slashdot)...

Interesting look at how the 21st century could be extremely conservative compared to the largely liberal 20th. Mostly UK-centered. "One could imagine a next century that is dominated by self-righteous puritans, unprepared to pay general taxes to lift the rest...

A look past the next 50 years to what our world could be like in hundreds of years time, and how little we currently understand about the world and ourselves. A ramble including robotics, disasters and how much longer homo...

A collection of articles, scenarios and data on what different aspects of the San Francisco Bay Area will be like in 2020....