The United States’ leading intelligence organisation has warned that the world is entering an increasingly unstable and unpredictable period in which the advance of western-style democracy is no longer assured, and some states are in danger of being “taken over and run by criminal networks”. The global trends review, produced by the National Intelligence Council (NIC) every four years, represents sobering reading in Barack Obama’s intray as he prepares to take office in January. The country he inherits, the report warns, will no longer be able to “call the shots” alone, as its power over an increasingly multipolar world begins to wane. Join discussion...

SAN FRANCISCO--If you're one of the many people who doubt there's intelligent life anywhere else in the universe, or even someone who thinks there is but that it will take centuries to find it, get ready to be surprised. "We'll find E.T. within two dozen years," senior SETI astronomer Seth Shostak said Tuesday night at an event held at Yahoo's Brickhouse here. That is, he said, if the assumptions of many researchers within the SETI Institute are correct, assumptions that are based on a collision of computing power under Moore's Law and the distance into space we can look with new instruments that will be available to researchers in the years to come. Join discussion...

News of Future is an independent publication that tells you what the world will look like in the next 50 years. We aim towards giving you the most accurate picture of the future as possible, on all aspects. We use the knowledge of today together with realistic predictions of the future to provide you with the News of Future. Since the future in constantly changing, so will the News of Future. We publish the most likely scenario as we know of today, but change it along the way to be as close to the truth as possible. We invite everyone to be a part of shaping the future and you can also find the argument for every news that we publish together with a chance to comment. If your prediction or comments are realistic we might revise the news, or publish a new one, and give you credit for it. Join discussion...

In cryptozoology, a skyfish, or “rod”, is a supposed atmospheric entity that travels too fast to be seen by the unaided eye. A relatively new addition to the cryptozoological laundry list, rods were ‘discovered’ in the early 1990s but debunked by 2003 at the latest. It turns out that they are just videographic artifacts, produced by the motion blur of a conventional insect being filmed at 60 fps. How fast does something need to travel to move too fast to be seen? Of course this depends on its size and distance. According to this analysis of human vision, Air Force pilots were able to identify an image of a plane flashed in front of them for only 1/250th of a second. This is around the limits of human vision. If the flash were only for 1/500th of a second, it is nearly certain that they wouldn’t even notice it. Join discussion...

2010: Computers become invisible. 2020: $1,000 buys a computer working at 10 quadrillion, or 10^16, calculations per second. 2025: Computer are able to simulate the entire human brain. 2030: Nonbiological intelligence matches human intelligence in range and subtlety; $1,000 buys a computer 1,000 times more powerful than the human brain. Join discussion...

The future holds many new technologies and developments. But what are some of the things people might believe will change? Here are some examples and of course let us know what you thing will be changed by 2025. In the year 2025 the following things will be changed: - Students will not attend schools anymore but will learn from their homes via the internet. - Physical money doesn’t exists anymore - Cancer and heart disease deaths are expected to diminish or disappear completely according to the National Institutes of Health. - Organ transplants won’t be needed. Doctors will grow new organs from a patient’s own tissues. - False teeth will be replaced by stem cell therapies that grow natural teeth. Clinical trials of this new procedure are underway in Europe now. - Your signature on a legal document will be considered quaint because of biometric Identification – iris, facial print, and voice-recognition. You become your own secure ID. Join discussion...

Most governments and organizations are worried about the creditcrisis but there are some bigger revolutions ahead of us which need attention of organizations and governments. The CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies ) identified 7 revolutions of change: population, government, technology, spread of information, conflict, resource managment, and economic integration. The project for this is named (project 7R(evolutions) and the 7R’s are the most important trends towards the year 2025. Well let’s have a look at these 7R’s. revolution 1. Population There is a tremendous growth of population in those countries which are least capable of it. 60 Percent of the people will life in cities by 2025. Join discussion...