In The Year 2050
Jul. 16th, 2022 09:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloIn 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....
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....
