Predictions for the world of January 1, 2020 (2010)

Great predictions with a very thorough explanation and high degree of accuracy. All except for 4 and 10 are correct for a prediction that was from 2010.

I'd like to get hold of this guy's forecast on 2030 given that it looks like this guy has a functioning crystal ball.

> There will be an even bigger economic crash. The system becomes increasingly unstable as we try to paper-over the damage from one bubble by creating an even bigger bubble elsewhere. Nevertheless, things continue semi-working for some reason.

The "things continue semi-working for some reason" is the part that got me, since that seems to be exactly what's happening. And the answer seems to generally be "for some reason".

> The drug war will be over, mostly.

Unfortunately this hasn't happened, but I hope we're starting to trend in that direction.

> Political outsiders will begin winning elections. Steven Colbert will win the 2016 election

Only half right. :'(

HN thread from 2010, when this was first posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1027916

Prescient! Does he have 2030 predictions?