Top 10 forecasts for 2008 and beyond

October 8, 2007 | Source: KurzweilAI

The earth is on the verge of a significant extinction event–a biodiversity collapse; the world will have a billion millionaires by 2025; water will be in the twenty-first century what oil was in the twentieth century; and the threat of another cold war with China, Russia, or both could replace terrorism as the chief foreign-policy concern of the United States.

These are among the top 10 forecasts fom The Futurist magazine’s Outlook 2008 report.