From: Dwayne (ddraig@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Jul 13 1998 - 04:22:29 MDT
Yak Wax wrote:
> One idea I had was to organise
> everything over a future timeline, but giving dates for predictions
> isn't my favourite pastime. One thing that did interest me was the
> recent discussion on organising predictions according to probability,
> but I've yet to think of an easy way to implement it on the web. The
> basic premise of what I'm trying to do is make it a 'walk through the
> future' whatever that means.
Something you might want to consider is allowing people to vote
on when they think a future development is likely to occur.
After a while, you'd have something which, while unlikely to be
accurate, might give you a good feel of how
optimistic/pessimistic people are about the likelihood of
differing technological advances.
Dwayne
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