Posted by

Barry Siskind

UFI’s Community Manager

It’s time for a bit of levity.

Undoubtedly you have met UFI’s IT Manager and Webmaster, Pascal Bellat. If you haven’t , perhaps its time to introduce yourself, (pascal@ufi.org).

Pascal recently shared three websites with me that make some practical and some audacious predictions for the next century. Now that we have the first month of the year behind us, I thought you might enjoy seeing where the experts think we are headed in the future.

Tomorrow’s world: A guide to the next 150 years

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130102-tomorrows-world

Here is another article on the same topic.

http://gizmodo.com/5971008/what-the-future-looked-like-100-years-ago-and-5-things-that-came-true

What we experienced last year in Valencia with PAL Robotics is now real? , in space:

http://robonaut.jsc.nasa.gov/default.asp

We won’t be here to verify most of these predictions, but it’s fun to speculate anyway