In The Year 2050

[poliphilo]

In the late 1970s Stephan Schwartz- former psychic spy for the US military- embarked on a project with something like 1000 participants- drawn from many countries- to remote view the year 2050. The results were correlated, using computers- and nothing made it into the final report that wasn't attested by multiple witnesses.

What emerged was a view of the near future that seems considerably more plausible and comprehensible now than it did in the 70s-

Here are some of the projections/predictions- many of which have already been realised...

There will be no nuclear war (though most people in the Cold War era- including Schwartz himself- thought it highly likely)

There will be a series of pandemics

The Soviet Union will have ceased to exist

Religious terrorism will be a major problem

Antibiotic medecine will fail- and medical science will be far more holistic

Global warming will have caused widespread coastal flooding. Florida will be under water.

The USA will still exist but power will have leached from the centre to individual states or groups of states.

Ultimate Power will rest with corporations not politicians.

Air traffic will have been curbed for environmental reasons. People will travel less.

Meetings will be conducted in virtual reality

Everyone (?) will carry a biometric ID card, issued at birth. There will not longer be any need for passports.

Hard cash will have all but disappeared

Houses and cars will be powered by mysterious, portable black boxes.

Schwartz has recently conducted a follow-up exercise- this time looking at the year 2060- and is still working on the raw data....

Comments

[lokbiiviing]

How fun! (If I am allowed to say that?) I admit I am sceptic but the results can be read as amazing from our era. I cannot wait to see what the black box turns out to be. What if I die before I see that? 😆 Maybe it is a super-concentrated solar power battery?

[poliphilo]

Schwatrz's guess is that it's some sort of cold fusion device...

[tagryn]

From the description I read in his interview, my guess would be widespread solar power, b/c the setup of most solar power systems in homes looks a lot like "a big box with wires that kind of hums along." We're not there...yet.

[lokbiiviing]

You know, now that I think about it, they have been writing about cold fusion in the science pages of the news paper. And come to think of it, there have also been programmes discussing it.

[poliphilo]

Cold fusion is something a lot of people are working towards.

[tagryn]

Link to long-ish interview with Schwartz from 2006:
https://www.dojopsi.info/forum/index.php?threads%2F2050-what-will-it-be-like-stephan-schwartz.2516%2F

[tagryn]

Whenever I'm reading lists of predictions like this, I actually find more interesting the claims that either are clearly wrong or seem likely to be wrong. Futurists/predictors/etc. who claim close to 100% accuracy, with no missteps or bad predictions, are usually selling something...which is fine as an thought exercise and an entertainment medium - which is why the tabloids love these kind of things - but that's all it is.

[poliphilo]

Schwartz reckons remote viewing is accurate in a range between 75% and 85% - or something like that. If it didn't produce results I don't think the Russian and US military would have given it the time of day.

[poliphilo]

Thanks for the link.