1985 — World oil production will fall below world needs
1990 — North America will no longer be a reliable source of food exports
1995 — The nations of the world will come together (reluctantly) at a world congress to seriously tackle the problems of population, food and energy.
2000 — Thanks to global sponsorship, construction of solar power plants in orbit around Earth will have begun.
2005 — A mining station will be operational on the Moon.
2010 — The world’s population will have peaked at around 7 billion.
2015 — The dismantling of the world’s military machines will have made international war impractical.
2020 – The flow of energy from solar space stations will have begun. Nuclear fusion power plants will be under construction.
2025 — The World Congress will be recognized as a permanent institution. Improved communications will have developed a global “lingua franca” that will be taught in schools.
2030 — The use of microcomputers and electronic computers will have revolutionized education, created a global village and prepared humanity for the in-depth exploration of the solar system and plans for possible advances to the stars.
Two of them are really good! They’re from The book of predictionsby David Wallechinsky, Amy Wallace and Irving Wallace.
