A 1930s Pictorial Vision of the Future

Hey, look. Flying cars!

There are many cool things about this picture.

A vision of the future, from 1930. What do you find most interesting? https://t.co/g6aV3jtTfm pic.twitter.com/LoBoMuyxzF

— Cliff Pickover (@pickover) June 2, 2019

Predictions for the Future (Circa 1900)

Here are some predictions for the future that were published in Ladies' Home Journal in 1900. Some of the predictions were spot on (or even not ambitious enough), but we haven't yet thrown out a certain three letters from the English alphabet, and that's a good thing for those of us who like to play Scrabble...

(Tip of the cap to Ellie [Park] Pattie.)

1982 Study by Institute for the Future

Wow, this 1982 study by Institute for the Future is almost dead-on correct. Just wow.

They did get the bit about the N-party system wrong, however.

(Tip of the cap to Jimmy Lin.)

Looking Forward

I will be one of the panelists in the Looking Foward session at the 2011 SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems.

Tune in to see what I will have to say about the future of dynamical systems.

Also, I'm sure that Jim Yorke will get into at least one argument with each of the other panelists.

It's really cool to be one of the major participants in this session at the big dynamical systems conference. You might say that I am looking forward to it...