What can past technology forecasts tell us about the future?

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 443-464

  Albright, Richard E ^a  

^a Albright Strategy Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Experience curves; Herman Kahn; Innovations; Learning curves; Technology forecasts; Trends

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; COMPUTERS; FORECASTING;

TECHNOLOGY TRENDS;

TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING;

FORECASTING METHOD; FUTURE PROSPECT; INNOVATION; LONG RANGE FORECAST; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 0036612137     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1625(02)00186-5     Document Type: Article

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1. The future that never was, failed predictions of the future
2. Our future
3. An interview with Paul Krugman
4. Cramming more components onto integrated circuits
5. Performance of supercomputer class computers 1940-2000
6. The evolution of optical systems: Optics everywhere
7. Nonlinear limits to the information capacity of optical fibre communications