He forecasts that world population will peak in around 2055, at 8.7 billion, and decline to 8 billion by the end of the century.
He forecasts that, at $90 a barrel, 23 billion barrels of oil and gas could still be extracted; at $70, this falls to 16.5 billion barrels.
He forecasts that the unemployment rate will reach 10.6percentt by the middle of next year and then perhaps climb higher.
He forecasts that by 2015, although AvtoVAZ will still be selling around the same number of cars as it does today, its market share will have fallen to 11%.
He forecasts that annual internet traffic in America alone could exceed 1,000 exabytes, or 1 zettabyte, by 2015 and has upgraded his terminology accordingly: he now talks of a zettaflood.This is more traffic than current trends would suggest.
He forecasts that overall music revenues will not start growing again until 2003, with the recovery driven by online sales.Even as the industry fights back with technology in one hand, it continues to wield the law in the other.
He forecasts that in a couple of years the UK will aldso be world-leading in the adoption of the high-speed mobile internet technology "LTE" – the next step up from 3G networks.
He forecasts that in the next 10 or 15 years, urban positioning technologies will have enhanced messaging services to the extent that you'll be able to text the attractive stranger at the bar simply by pointing your phone at them.
