I find the Webot predictions interesting like everyone else. But why the hell doesn't it predict anything positive? Just something.... anything.... Customer Appreciation day at Little Ceasars Pizza for all I care. Just show us something to prove its not just Doom and Gloom software.

has the web bot ever had a prediction be spot on? or are they simply predictions that anyone could do?

Originally posted by warrenb
has the web bot ever had a prediction be spot on? or are they simply predictions that anyone could do?

Early on I think they were pretty accurate, although it didn't make sense until looking back at it. From what I have read, they nailed Katrina, and a major Earthquake, but they didn't know it until after the fact.

Kind of like most predictions, they are easy to see once they are over, but almost impossible to see before hand. Makes them pretty worthless!

I think these guys are really reaching lately, and I haven't given much thought to their last few runs.

These predictions are way too specific to be believable.
Seriously, after thousands of years of "predictions" mankind seems to not have learned how predictions really work. Maybe because mankind doesn't care to study itself like it is something new and bizarre. Oh wait, what am I saying. I'm an anthropology student! That's what I do!

The chances that swine flu will come back with a vengeance are pretty good. Often a flu will start one spring and then be back in the fall so that's not too much of a prediction.

Some of the predictions are pretty easy but others are so specific that I find them hard to believe.

Be sure to read the last one in the article.

Erm... read these for a laugh from the bottom of the list on the source:

# "Global Coastal Phenomena" will be gradual, yet by March/April 2011 the situation could be disturbing for many people. Unusual movements of the Moon brought on by anomalies in the magnetosphere could cause coastal disruptions.
# The magnetosphere problems could lead to ultraviolet scorching of food crops. Grain crops will fail, mainly in the Northern Hemisphere, leading to food riots in the winter of 2010/spring of 2011. Specifically, they'll be riots in Rome that will spill over into the Vatican.
# In South America, they'll be large or mass sightings of UFO-related phenomena. In the summer of 2010, a video crew will interview an escapee from an internment facility. The young bald man will later be revealed to be a "non-Terran" human.

Oh come on.... the predictions about Iran and the economy are a little but plausible, but without the dates and anyone can predict that. But the rest are a complete joke - too specific, and this makes me realise the first few are also too specific with the dates. I would have said maybe if they'd have gone with the first few only.... but the last few makes you realise that the whole lot is probably made-up... and especially the dates as well as the incidents.


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This whole web bot thing is truly nothing but hype. I dont know of one specific prediction that has come true. These general predictions that seem to have credibility are nothing more than mere guesses. This specific prediction over Israel is interesting though. I'll bet that it doesn't come true in the end and hopefully that will put to bed this whole web bot craze.

I posted this on another thread...


The name of this new webbot volume is
The Shape of Things to Come (2010)
This is Volume Zero, Issue Zero of The Shape of Things to Come. It runs some 35 pages in a PDF format, and is available for download using the Buy Now button from Paypal. This issue covers from Fall of 2009 through to Fall of 2010, with some discussion of trends for 2011.

...I think its funny they name it after fictional writings of h.g.wells....

The Shape of Things to Come is a work of science fiction by H. G. Wells, published in 1933, which speculates on future events from 1933 until the year 2106. It is not a novel, but rather a fictional history book or chronicle, similar in style to Star Maker and Last and First Men, both by Olaf Stapledon. Wells's book also shared with Stapledon's an understanding of the change wrought in the nature of war by the development of air power; both writers included harrowing depictions of cities destroyed in aerial bombardments (by planes whose bombs also contain poison gas), which proved an accurate prediction of what was to happen in the second World War.

I think the more concrete they try to make these predictions beforehand, the less reliable it will become. It seems like it turns enough minds onto the possibilities of the predictions and the act of expectation could alter the future in very strange ways. Though maybe this is an implication of time speeding up, if we see the patterns beforehand then we subconsciously alter our way out.