The Expected World

Timeline

47 entries arranged by the date they predicted.

1810s1850s1880s1900s1920s1930s1950s1960s1970s1980s1990s2000s2010s2020s2030s2070s

1810s

1 entries
1818Proportional access to professions or The middle way between free competition and commerci…Fourier, 1808Culture & Society

1850s

1 entries
1858The hordes are making daily inroads into the cultivated areas of Asia, spilling further an…Fourier, 1808Culture & Society

1880s

1 entries
1888At present weapons are being changed every ten years, and even more frequently. In another…Dostoevsky, 1873Culture & Society

1900s

1 entries
1900The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce sub…Malthus, 1798Environment

1920s

1 entries
1924The Great War had been the explosion of a vast accumulation of energy, moral and social as…Wells, 1924Culture & Society

1930s

3 entries
1930The coming of the wireless era will make war impossible, because it will make war ridiculo…Marconi, 1912War & Conflict
1930[...] we have been expressly evolved by nature-with all our impulses and deepest instincts…Keynes, 1930Culture & Society
1934So, one after another, either as pilots or passengers, will the members of the club ascend…Grahame-White, 1914Culture & Society

1950s

1 entries
1951It was in 1951 that Dupont and Schwarz produced the first ectogenetic child.FICTIONHaldane, 1924Medicine & the Body

1960s

3 entries
1960Once we recognise this with all the clearness that the clearness of the fact itself demand…Gasset, 1930Culture & Society
1965Two or three years ago, it appeared that automatic recognition of sizeable vocabularies wo…Licklider, 1960Culture & Society
1968I pour my crisis regarding democratic thinking and universal feeling onto paper because no…Gombrowicz, 1958Culture & Society

1970s

5 entries
1970In the three short decades between now and the twenty-first century, millions of ordinary,…Toffler, 1970Culture & Society
1975It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy…Strauss, 1954Technology
1975The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of …Moore, 1965Technology
1975There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality…Jacobs, 1961Culture & Society
1976I will also ask for an appropriation of an extra $100 million to launch an intensive campa…Nixon, 1971Medicine

1980s

6 entries
1980Consider a future device for individual use, which is a sort of mechanized private file an…Bush, 1945Technology
1980Why did I pick on the next nine years instead of the next 900 for finding a solution to th…Ehrlich, 1971Culture & Society
1980Closer at hand and perhaps equally decisive is another no less threatening event. This is …Press, 1958Culture & Society
1981In twenty years, the USSR will be producing almost twice as much industrial output as is n…Union, 1961Culture & Society
1981A few years ago London was surprised by a play called Rossum's Universal Robots. The produ…Magazine, 1931Culture & Society
1984The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above…FICTIONOrwell, 1949Governance

1990s

2 entries
1995I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to…Reagan, 1983War & Conflict
1995The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that th…Arendt, 1967Governance & Power

2000s

10 entries
2000Photographs will be telegraphed from any distance. If there be a battle in China a hundred…Jr., 1900Technology
2000What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War, or the passing of a particu…Fukuyama, 1989Governance
2000This is our basic conclusion: Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one wh…chair), 1968Governance
2000In the three short decades between now and the twenty-first century, millions of ordinary,…Toffler, 1970Culture
2000The change from atoms to bits is irrevocable and unstoppable. Computing is not about compu…Negroponte, 1995Technology
2000These societies, these generations which no longer expect anything from some future 'comin…Baudrillard, 1992Culture & Society
2000Dismisssing the Italian or Continental look of the 1950’s (Italy is third in Cardin sales,…Barry, 1968Culture & Society
2000The epicure of the future is to dine upon artificial meat, artificial flour, and artificia…Berthelot, 1894Daily Life
2003It could last, you know, six days, six weeks. I doubt six months.Rumsfeld, 2003War & Conflict
2005The Soviet economy is proof that, contrary to what many skeptics had earlier believed, a s…Samuelson, 1989Governance

2010s

6 entries
2010The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural…Huntington, 1993Governance
2010Viewed within a multiparadigmatic framework, cognitive psychology may be the most likely o…Gosling, 2003Culture & Society
2010TÉLÉVISION: L'objet le plus familier au monde. En 2010, plus de deux milliards de télévise…Attali, 1998Culture & Society
2014By 2014, electroluminescent panels will be in common use. Ceilings and walls will glow sof…Asimov, 1964Daily Life
2014Indeed, the most somber speculation I can make about A.D. 2014 is that in a society of enf…Asimov, 1964Culture
2019After sixty years of devoted service, Moore's Law will die a dignified death no later than…Kurzweil, 2001Culture & Society

2020s

3 entries
2025The standard of living has risen along with the size of the world's population since the b…Simon, 1981Environment
2025The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whateve…Lovelace, 1843Technology
2025We will start to see some forms of robot sex appearing in high-income, very wealthy househ…Pearson, 2015Culture & Society

2030s

2 entries
2032Jarret supporters have been known, now and then, to form mobs and burn people at the stake…FICTIONButler, 1998Governance & Power
2035When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, wh…Tesla, 1935Technology

2070s

1 entries
2072If the present growth trends in world population, industrialization, pollution, food produ…Meadows, 1972Environment & Resources