The future of everything, as predicted by Strategic Farsight.
Deep dive into a new prediction every Friday: scientific breakthroughs, inventions, societal shifts. With the help of AI, we collect the best thinking on a topic, from optimistic to apocalyptic, in order to estimate the most likely timing and impact of all the things that have not happened yet.
To view the written predictions or to create your own, visit https://www.strategicfarsight.com.
Harvard Medical School is currently testing a treatment that could cure blindness by stimulating the eye to heal itself. Regenerative treatments of all kinds will be arriving between the 2030s and 2050s, but what about completely regrowing part of the body, like a lost finger or arm?
Can we do it? And if so, does that mean you have to walk around for six months with a little baby limb? Ew.
Read the full prediction: Full Human Limb Regeneration (https://www.strategicfarsight.com/prediction/6aa6eeb5558506cafdbe2b1f)
9 Oct 2026
The Organism Printer
Might organic life be so rare that it had to be seeded on Earth by an alien species? Could we someday be the ones seeding distant star systems with our own ectoplasmic goo?
Find out if this is even possible as Biff and Betty discuss "the organism printer" — a machine capable of printing a living creature.
Read the full prediction: The Organism Printer (https://www.strategicfarsight.com/prediction/6aaa365e558506cafdbe2b25)
2 Oct 2026
The Future of Terrorism
Civilization was born from terror. The earliest monuments to empire, such as the Palette of King Narmer, first king of Egypt, show the free peoples of the time, the "enemies," kneeling, beheaded, and/or dismembered. The state, even in modern times, can be defined as an organization with a monopoly on violence.
When terrorism, amplified by future technologies, challenges that monopoly, will the state survive? In what form? The surveillance dictatorship? The "antifragile" democracy? Or... maybe something entirely new?
Read the full scenario: The Future of Terrorism (https://www.strategicfarsight.com/scenario/6aac6ac7558506cafdbe2b2a)
Referenced in the intro:
Why the Future Doesn't Need Us (https://www.wired.com/2000/04/joy-2/) by Bill Joy
Are we doomed yet? (https://www.salon.com/2003/03/31/knowledge_2/) by Sheldon Pacotti (original title: "The Criminalization of Knowledge")
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