“Toward the Year 2018”, a speculative book from 1968

Re:“Toward the Year 2018”, a speculative book from 1968 by fumonko on Monday January 08, 2018 @12:47PM (#16098403)

Does anyone know of a recently written book that tries to predict the world fifty years from now?

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Re:“Toward the Year 2018”, a speculative book from 1968 by nine_k on Monday January 08, 2018 @04:40PM (#16100877)

If you want an interesting dark view, try Blindsight by P. Watts. It's SF, but it's 10+ hard on Mohs scale of SF hardness, with 100 references to papers in the end. Contains a number of, mmm, interesting social vistas.

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Re:“Toward the Year 2018”, a speculative book from 1968 by Top19 on Monday January 08, 2018 @12:51PM (#16098419)

The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century https://www.amazon.com/dp/0767923057/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_e-6u...

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Re:“Toward the Year 2018”, a speculative book from 1968 by bencollier49 on Monday January 08, 2018 @03:03PM (#16099859)

"2020: China Fragments"?

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Re:“Toward the Year 2018”, a speculative book from 1968 by varjag on Monday January 08, 2018 @03:30PM (#16100162)

He also predicted the new cold war with Russia, at the time where such sentiments were dismissed as out of touch with reality.

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Re:“Toward the Year 2018”, a speculative book from 1968 by ballpark on Monday January 08, 2018 @01:02PM (#16098496)

No, but give me 50 years and I'll tell you a good one.

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Re:“Toward the Year 2018”, a speculative book from 1968 by anthony_romeo on Monday January 08, 2018 @02:20PM (#16099289)

Well if you believe Kurzweil, we'll have achieved a technological singularity by that point.

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Re:“Toward the Year 2018”, a speculative book from 1968 by Jach on Monday January 08, 2018 @01:52PM (#16098912)

Since another replier gave a book for 100 years, here's one of those... http://ageofem.com/ Though I imagine 50 years has a small but non-zero probability in Prof Hanson's distribution, and he's pretty careful of not seeming overly certain: "Conditional on my key assumptions, I expect at least 30% of future situations to be usefully informed by my analysis. Unconditionally, I expect at least 10%."

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Re:“Toward the Year 2018”, a speculative book from 1968 by brendan_a_b on Monday January 08, 2018 @02:21PM (#16099311)

I know it's a bit further out than 50 years, but I remember enjoying this book/series of essays that discusses what humanity could look like in 1,000,000 C.E.

Year Million: Science at the Far Edge of Knowledge https://www.amazon.com/Year-Million-Science-Edge-Knowledge/d...

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Re:“Toward the Year 2018”, a speculative book from 1968 by Chris_Newton on Monday January 08, 2018 @04:44PM (#16100918)

Not quite the timescale you asked for, but The World in 2050 by Laurence C. Smith was an interesting read. At the time of writing he was predicting things about 40 years ahead.

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Re:“Toward the Year 2018”, a speculative book from 1968 by spodek on Monday January 08, 2018 @01:25PM (#16098656)

Limits to Growth, the 30 year update, if 2004 is recent enough.

https://www.amazon.com/Limits-Growth-Donella-H-Meadows/dp/19...

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