I was reading Klaus Oesch’s book about the “digital revolution”. The book was written in 1993, and I found fascinating the many predictions, which are now manifesting themselves and seemed to have been very much on target (digital TV, wireless LANs, PDAs, etc.). It’s probably obvious that you can predict the future (at least the major trends) through the past.

But could you automate the process? Is it possible to create a computer program to find those trends which extend from the past to the future?
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