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Re:The state of space in 2055 by rickyconnolly on Saturday May 26, 2012 @12:55PM (#4027695)
Whether it's geopolitics, technology, or social changes, it is next to impossible to predict further than 10-20 years down the road with any kind of accuracy.

Could people living at the height of the space race realistically predict the collapse of American space exploration? Could they see coming the subsequent rise of private space ventures?

Re:The state of space in 2055 by geori on Saturday May 26, 2012 @02:06PM (#4027910)
We'll just have to wait until pschyohistory is invented.
Re:The state of space in 2055 by philwelch on Saturday May 26, 2012 @04:58PM (#4028352)
(spoiler alert)

Not even psychohistory worked in the long run. It fundamentally could not predict the Mule.

Re:The state of space in 2055 by cliffbean on Saturday May 26, 2012 @08:35PM (#4028824)
A charitable way to read this site is to use it as a way of talking about current trends. For example, they say "Male and female salaries are reaching parity" in 2067. Who knows what'll happen, but it's a novel way of talking about just how far behind female salaries are and at what rate they're changing today. For another, projecting Moore's law out to 2083 is silly, but it is interesting to remember how transistors (and other computer parts) have been shrinking exponentially through the present.