In 2100, what will be the world's #1 superpower?

[J-Mann]

Still the United States.

Also, I will be long dead, so it won't matter so much to me

[J-Mann]

How the hell are we supposed to know what will transpire over the course of 95 years?

I would love to hear what people in 1910 thought the world would be like in 2005.

I don't know about political predictions from 1910, but you can revisit old issues of Popular Mechanics or Popular Science to see the technological predictions they've made at different times, mostly about the year 2000, which was seen as sort of a benchmark.

Some of the predictions were spot-on; some were WAY off.

[J-Mann]

How the hell are we supposed to know what will transpire over the course of 95 years?

I would love to hear what people in 1910 thought the world would be like in 2005.

I don't know about political predictions from 1910, but you can revisit old issues of Popular Mechanics or Popular Science to see the technological predictions they've made at different times, mostly about the year 2000, which was seen as sort of a benchmark.

Some of the predictions were spot-on; some were WAY off.

Most of the bad predictions are made by people who suffere from what I call "Malthus Syndrom".  That is to say that they cannot possibly see the future in terms of anything different from what is immediatly know to them.

I'd say that would be something that affects all of us when trying to predict the future; we can either base the future off of what we already know, or we can let our imaginations run wild and make crazy speculations. Neither is a perfectly solid method of prediction.