From global famine to vanishing oil, these 18 predictions from the 1970s show just how difficult the future was to predict.

Few things reveal human overconfidence quite like a bold tech prediction that history ultimately shreds to pieces. From industry titans to Nobel laureates, some of the most brilliant minds on the ...

For years, The Gadget Show tried to predict what the future of technology would look like. Now those old predictions are being put to the ultimate test: reality. From ideas that seemed ridiculous at ...

Five times the mainstream media made “laughably inaccurate” but confident-sounding predictions about the future of technology. The mainstream media is full of confident-sounding predictions about the ...

Guest column: For centuries, humans looked to seers and astrologers to determine fate. Today, we look to algorithms, and the loss of agency is the same. Editors’ note: Welcome to CNET’s new series of ...

Future technology trends are accelerating at a pace where innovations once considered science fiction are becoming practical tools in everyday life. Breakthroughs in emerging technologies like ...