Posted on 07/25/2012 10:09:45 AM PDT by JerseyanExile
They tell you a lot about Issac Asimov and Ronald Reagan.
Orson Scott Card’s was scary close. The others... not so much
Lots of pinkos in that group.
Dave Wolverton should’ve written more.
Two years from the fall of the Berlin Wall and none of them saw it coming. Ronald Reagan was smarter than the whole bunch.
Dave Wolverton did the best.
The majority seem to worship the idea of a cashless, one-world ruled hell.
Tells me all I need to know about Isaac Asimov. He might have been a good writer but he obviously didn’t have a lick of common sense.
The average American will be a pathetic round-bottomed weeble-wobble with the attention span of a gnat and glued to the television, living their miserable lives vicariously through the laboratory designed celebrity entertainers they see on the tube. Bizarre body modifications, unusual piercings, and tattoos covering the entire body will be the norm. An African Marxist strongman will seize control of the United States. Flesh-eating Zombies will arise and begin to consume the living. The hardy survivors who haven't become mind numbed robots will cause firearms and ammo to fly off the shelves.
Pretty much my take.
Isn’t Uncle Orson the closest thing to a conservative on that list, too? I believe he’s libertarian...
I think so. Mormon too, I believe. Sort of in the mold of a Glenn Beck type.
Non-psychic predictions for 2012 from 25 years ago.
I await eagerly for this book.
One thing about twenty five year predictions is that most people who make them want to predict huge changes in human nature and the conditions of the world. If you say "things will be pretty much the same as now with a few changes. It costs millions of dollars to put a person in orbit, so there won't be any offworld colonies. Wars will still be fought because people will be as greedy and petty as ever. Things are improving from Ehrlich's mad rantings in the 60s, so there won't be any great starvation." you won't be invited back to make more predictions next year.
Funny, the correct answer would have been... 2012 will be pretty much the same as 1987 except the music will be worse and there will be far more computers and cell phones....
Actually, I'm thinking that Ayn Rand did it better than any of these guys and she did her predicting in 1957.
Noticed that...
Gene Wolfe and Pournelle lean right, don’t know about any others besides Card.
Freegards
You may be waiting a long time - he died in 1995.
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