Another project from the Long Now Foundation that people might find interesting is Long Bets (https://longbets.org/), a site for charitable wagers based around longer term predictions of the future. With the site approaching 20 years old now, we're starting to see many of the medium term bets coming up for settlement, and it's interesting to look back and see what people were predicting around the turn of the century.

Some of the ones I found particularly interesting that are/will be settled this decade:

Bet 12 (https://longbets.org/12/) - No one will win a Nobel Prize for string theory by 2020

Bet 1 (https://longbets.org/1/) - The Turing test will not be passed by 2029

Bet 4 (https://longbets.org/4/) - Pilotless passenger planes will be routine by the end of the decade.

Bet 712 (https://longbets.org/712/) - A commercial driverless car service will be available (in Las Vegas)

The site was also somewhat notable for the "million dollar bet" (https://longbets.org/362/) between Warren Buffet and Protege Partners about whether a curated portfolio of hedge funds would outperform the S&P500 over a ten year span.