As of August 2005 a Democrat is President of the US.

Over the next ten years, we will make measurable global progress in all five areas of the human condition: food, access to clean water, health, education, and the price of energy.

By 2025 the scientific evidence of a hither-to-unknown large bi-pedal great ape will be sufficient to convince at least 50% of primatologists that a yeti/bigfoot-like creature exists.

The annual average cost between 2003 and Dec 31 2005 of the total retail price (commercial and residential) per Kilowatthour of electricity in the United States will rise as calculated by the U.S. Departmentof Energy in chained (inflation-adjusted) U.S. dollars.

The first discovery of extraterrestrial life will be someplace other than on a planet or on a satellite of a planet.

In 2022 the US economy will no longer be held to be the world leader in global environmental degradation.

By 2020, no one will have won a Nobel Prize for work on superstring theory, membrane theory, or some other unified theory describing all the forces of nature.

At least one human alive in the year 2000 will still be alive in 2150.

The US men's soccer team will win the World Cup before the Red Sox win the World Series.

The universe will eventually stop expanding.

By 2010, more than 50 percent of books sold worldwide will be printed on demand at the point of sale in the form of library-quality paperbacks.

By 2012, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times will have referred to Russia as "the world leader in software development" or words to that effect.

By 2030, commercial passengers will routinely fly in pilotless planes.

A profitable video-on-demand service aimed at consumers will offer 10,000 titles to 5 million subscribers by 2010.

In a Google search of five keywords or phrases representing the top five news stories of 2007, weblogs will rank higher than the New York Times' Web site.

By 2029, no computer - or "machine intelligence" - will have passed the Turing Test