(Photo by the Royal Library)What will the new year be like? Medieval science informs us with precise accuracy. In the Fourteenth Century text Zibaldone da Canal, an Italian merchant explains that the day of the week on w...

Forget crystal balls and precogs! Eric Ho...  ...eeds and can provide large numbers of predictions . We demonstrate the predictive power of mining...  ...ews stories to cre- ate classifers for a range of prediction problems. We show as examples forecas...  ...problems. We show as examples forecasts o...

Quick, what's the one thing you know abou...  ...s 20/20, but a better adage would be, "Don't make predictions

(YouTube link) In 1974, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke told a reporter from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation what computer use would be like in the year 2001. At the time, the technology to link one co...

(YouTube link) Some people still think the world will end in 2012, because that's where the Maya calendar ends. C.G.P. Grey explains how that strange idea came about. An even simpler explanation came from D...

George Merryweather was a doctor in Whitby, on the British coast of Yorkshire. He was also an inventor. ...the thing which Mr. Merryweather became truly famous for was his "Atmospheric, Electromagnetic Telegraph, conduc...

(YouTube link) Dan Rowan's "News of the Future" segment on the TV show Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In got things right a couple of times in 1969. The fall of the Berlin Wall was slated for 1989, which is what actually ha...

So, if you've been watching the World Cup, you kno...  ...Holland.Punters gambling on the mystic mollusc's predictions have won up to half a million pounds during the m...  ...flags of the German team and its rivals.After his prediction that Germany would be defeated by Spain came to p...