No Futurist can predict the future accurately 100% of the time. In fact, nowadays it seems the World Future Society is training its Futurist members to be somewhat vague in their statements, thus left up to interpretation, and also not to rock the boat of political correctness too much. Yes, that makes sense, I suppose. Still, even if folks like MegaTrends series’ author, John Naisbitt only gets it right half of the time, he’s still doing better than most everyone else – plus after selling nearly a million copies of his works, there are enough people reading these books out creating the very future he is projecting.

Oh yes, and then there are folks like Arthur C. Clarke, Calib Carr, and Ray Kurzweil with huge followings too. The reason so many of Arthur C. Clarke’s futurist science fiction technologies came to pass was because folks who read his books imagined it could be done and they went out and did it, the Iridium Satellite System is just one such example. With Calib Carr he wrote about a hand held DNA device, soon that technology will also be here.