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Prediction Consensus: What The ‘Experts’ See Coming In 2020
Prediction Consensus: What The ‘Experts’ See Coming In 2020 Through the ages, humans have feared uncertainty. We’ve searched for clues in everything from entrails to tea leaves to the arrangement of heavenly bodies in the night sky. In the modern era, data and media are the new magic 8-ball. The jury is still out on […]
New Study Finds Media-Generated Fear is Driving ‘Doomsday Prepping’
New Study Finds Media-Generated Fear is Driving ‘Doomsday Prepping’ Not right wing conspiracy theories. A new study has found that media-generated fear, not right-wing conspiracy theories, is the main driving force behind the rise of ‘doomsday prepping’. The study, published in the Journal of American Studies, confirms that neither a backlash to the Obama presidency […]
Doug Casey on the Year the World Falls Apart
Doug Casey on the Year the World Falls Apart Justin’s note: It’s “Totally Incorrect” week here at Casey Research… We’ve shared Doug Casey’s uncensored insights – on topics ranging from the climate change hoax to the next 9/11-type event. But today’s essay may be the most controversial one yet… Doug says a disaster of historic proportions is on the […]
Horrifying predictions for 2019 – 2020 revealed in this six-minute video
Horrifying predictions for 2019 – 2020 revealed in this six-minute video (Natural News) “You are living through the final chapter of modern human civilization,” I explain in the opening of a new, six-minute video that lays out predictions for 2019 – 2020. “A catastrophic global collapse is coming, and you’re seeing society rip itself apart.” […]
The Recline and Flail of Western Civilization and Other 2019 Predictions
The Recline and Flail of Western Civilization and Other 2019 Predictions Darts in a Blizzard Today, as we prepare to close out the old, we offer a vast array of tidings. We bring words of doom and despair. We bring words of contemplation and reflection. And we also bring words of hope and sunshine. Famous […]
MIT Computer Model Predicts Dramatic Drop In Quality Of Life Around 2020 And The “End Of Civilization” Around 2040
MIT Computer Model Predicts Dramatic Drop In Quality Of Life Around 2020 And The “End Of Civilization” Around 2040 Is humanity approaching a major turning point? A computer model that was originally developed in 1973 by a group of scientists at MIT is warning that things are about to dramatically change. If the computer predictions […]
How Do We Really Forecast the Future?
How Do We Really Forecast the Future? QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; It is obvious that you have indeed been behind the curtain for your knowledge of even global politics is amazing. Kim Jong Un is here in Beijing. You said he would back down. You said the risk of war lies in the Middle East, not […]
A Dangerous Year
A Dangerous Year ‘Tis the season for making predictions about the events lurking in wait for us all in the upcoming year, and I see no reason to demur from that common if risky habit. Those of my readers who’ve been following my blog since the days of The Archdruid Report know that my method […]
The Future (Not)
The Future (Not) I took myself to the new movie Blade Runner 2049 to see what kind of future the Hollywood dream-shop is serving up in these days. It was an excellent illustration of the over-investments in technology with diminishing returns that are dragging us into collapse and of the attendant techno-narcissism that afflicts the […]
Future Headlines
Future Headlines The following is a random assortment of headlines that we may see in the future. However, they’re not fanciful; they’re based upon historical, political actions taken by past empires when they were in decline. The wording, however, has been modernised to reflect current media presentation. “President Announces Executive Order to Keep US Dollars […]
The Futility of Predictions
The Futility of Predictions Awesome Forecasts and the Unknowable Future Back in late 2013 I wrote a piece on human nature which was in part inspired by the bullish exuberance exhibited by a MarketWatch article predicting the DJIA at 20,000 in the near term future. Yesterday afternoon, a bit over three years later, that prediction actually became reality and I’m […]
The Problem With Forecasts
The Problem With Forecasts The Problem With Forecasts We can’t predict the future – if it was actually possible fortune tellers would all win the lottery. They don’t, we can’t, and we aren’t going to try. However, this doesn’t stop the annual parade of Wall Street analysts from pegging 12-month price targets on the S&P 500 as […]
Courtney White’s THE AGE OF CONSQUENCES: A Chronicle of Concern and Hope
Courtney White’s THE AGE OF CONSQUENCES: A Chronicle of Concern and Hope (Counterpoint Press, January 2015, 261 pages, $21.99) Reviewed by Frank Kaminski “I consider myself to be a professional daydreamer,” reads the opening line of Courtney White’s Internet bio page. And indeed, White–a fine, imaginative thinker and writer who happens to be related to the […]
“The Future” as a sales pitch
“The Future” as a sales pitch No one can know the future. But it turns out we can invent a place called “The Future” and invite people to inhabit it. In order to inhabit “The Future”–which is really just an enactment of our ideas about the future–you need the right accessories. For starters you’ll need the basics: the latest […]
