When I was an Assistant Superintendent for Instruction in one of the larger city schools in Ohio (way back in the early `80's) it was quite common  for consultants and universities to schedule workshops and even offer courses that purported to tell we "leaders in Education" what was coming down the road for the future.  I attended a couple of them and even had an "futures expert" I'd met at one of them come to our school system for an day-long "workshop" for our teachers.  (Which they probably resented mightily.)

I really don't remember much of what the guru's were predicting.  The only thing I do remember is that we would be moving into what they called "The Information Age."  That part of their crystal-balling seems to have been accurate.  The exchange of information, both volume and speed, of today is as far different from what we had in the 1980's as Henry Ford's Model "T" is from a NASCAR automobile.   What they didn't predict is the social devolution. (I won't call it either a "revolution" or "evolution.") that came marching alongside the information technology.  No one was predicting the level of violence we now live with; they weren't predicting how much human tissue that once was a child in a mother's womb ends up in a landfill somewhere and is accepted so cavalierly today.  There are many other aspects and truths of our current world that no one predicted. 

I think the one thing that we can predict is that human society is going to go along about like it has since Adam and Eve decided "You can never have enough knowledge."  Then, because they had to eke out their living by the sweat of their brow "Man" used his knowledge to invent tools - a good thing, right?  Sure, until Cain used a tool he invented to kill Abel.  Since being kicked out of The Garden of Eden "Man" has simply never been able to resist using the same knowledge that eradicated polio to create Sarin, nuclear bombs, and host of other ways to take a good thing and use it in a bad way.  "Man" has taken God's commandment for us individually to be charitable and revised it; making it a secular command ordering our government to be charitable and relieve us of that burden.

So, my prediction is that "Man" will keep right on slouching down that same path he has since leaving "The Garden."   I predict that "Man" will find ways to make our lives easier and even more "fun" but "Man" can and will find ways to use his knowledge and unwillingness to battle the same evil that seduced Eve to make new things and then, in part, use them to make a world that is even more chaotic and self-serving than it is today.   Nothing God creates is evil but God does permit man to use his creations for evil purposes and, as Lady MacBeth said, "Aye, there's the rub."

My greatest and only prediction that I unashamedly and surely know will come true is:  "We know how all this will end."  Ultimately where there is chaos there will be peace, where there is shrillness there will be harmony,  where there is cruelty there will be justice, and where there is true repentance for our human weakness there will be mercy.  Those things I can predict with 100% sureness they will come about.