Future Prediction Quotes

We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

I can prophecy that your grandchildren in America will live under socialism -- Our firm conviction is that sooner or later Capitalism will give way to Socialism. Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.

Hindsight is notably cleverer than foresight.

I have seen the future, and it works.

There will be no communism.

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable.

If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.

Artificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029. Follow that out further to, say, 2045, we will have multiplied the intelligence, the human biological machine intelligence of our civilization a billion-fold.

The United States will become a Muslim country, even if it takes 100 years.

The projector will soon disappear. The camera, not really. OK, it depends... it depends on change.

People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.

A simple way to forecast the future is to look at what rich people have today; middle-income people will have something equivalent in 10 years, and poor people will have something equivalent in an additional decade.

Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times. This arises from the fact that they are produced by men who ever have been, and ever shall be, animated by the same passions, and thus they necessarily have the same results.

Sometimes, I can see the future stretched out in front of me - just as plain as day. The future hanging over there at the edge of my days. Just waiting for me.

What we do know is that the era of climate change is upon us and the extraordinary in California today will become the ordinary of tomorrow.

I think history is just so cyclical.

Forecasting our futures is built into our psyches because we will soon have to manage that future. We have no choice. No matter how often we fail, we can never stop trying.

But the indeterminate future is somehow one in which probability and statistics are the dominant modality for making sense of the world. Bell curves and random walks define what the future is going to look like. The standard pedagogical argument is that high schools should get rid of calculus and replace it with statistics, which is really important and actually useful. There has been a powerful shift toward the idea that statistical ways of thinking are going to drive the future.

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say.

In ten years I will become president of the United States Of America.