Selected median expert predictions, Rand Corporation
| 1972 | 2015 | Automated language translators |
|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 1980 | Air traffic control-positive and predictive track on all aircraft |
| 1974 | 1985 | Direct link from stores to banks to check credit and to record transactions |
| 1975 | Automation of office work and services, leading to displacement of 25% of current workforce | |
| 1976 | 1995 | Automatic libraries, looking up and reproducing copy |
| 1978 | 1995 | Automated looking up of legal information |
| 1979 | Widespread use of automatic decision-making at management level for industrial and national planning | |
| 1980 | 2000 | Operation of a central data storage facility with wide access for general or specialized information retrieval |
| 1985 | Automated interpretation of medical symptoms | |
| 1986 | Controlled thermonuclear power | |
| 1986 | Construction on a production line of computers with motivation by 'education' | |
| 1988 | Widespread use of robot services, for refuse collection, as household helpers, as sewer inspectors, etc. | |
| 1988 | 2005 | Widespread use of computers in tax collection, with access to all business records-automatic single tax deductions |
| 1990 | 2016 | Availability to respond to questions printed in English and possibly accompanied by a graphic that is to be interpreted as behavior |
| 2000 | Evolution of a universal language from automated communication | |
| 2000 | Automated voting, in the sense of legislating through automated plebiscite | |
| 2002 | Automated highways and adaptive automobile autopilots | |
| 2005 | 2005 | Remote facsimile newspapers and magazines, printed in home |
| 2020 | Man-machine symbiosis, enabling man to extend his intelligence by direct electromechanical interaction between his brain and a computing machine | |
| 2025 | International agreements which guarantee certain economic minima to the world's population as a result of high production from automation |