Futurists and predicting stuff always made me twitch. Seriously. Check out any old movies or series and you will see that any technology is either obsolete or s

Futurists and predicting stuff always made me twitch. Seriously. Check out any old movies or series and you will see that any technology is either obsolete or so vague that it can't be built. Using this line of thinking I came to the algorithm necessary to predict the future with a higher chance of success: First Step: Do it like we always do, predict the future. Spaceships, gadgets and so on. Second Step: Now get in the shoes of someone from that "time" and do the first step again. You now have, what I believe, a good prediction. Using this simple algorithm I now think that any spaceship with a single forward view screen (eg: star trek) is plain silly and it would make more sense to have view screens in every face of the bridge (with holographic floating screen or something) to have more freedom.