predictions Archive

OpenAI has determined that the computing used in Artificial Intelligence projects has doubled every 3 months since 2012. This has been an increase of 300,000 times since 2012 versus 12 times if it was following a Moore’s law doubling every …

The IMF’s World Economic Outlook Update predicts Macau will behave the world’s highest per capita GDP of US$143,116 in 2020. Qatar will be second with US$139,151. Qatar has a population of 2.5 million. Macau has a population of 650,000. Macau …

Bitcoin has fallen back to the mid-$7000 support level after rallying over $8000. Bitcoin had a peak in January, 2018. Various bitcoin bulls have doubled down on their price predictions. Most of the hyperbullish predictions of $25,000 to 100,000 prices …

Chris Williamson, chief business economist at IHS Markit indicates the US PMI is consistent with an annualized GDP of 3.5%. A markedly improved service sector performance takes the final composite PMI reading above the flash estimate and to its highest …

Microsoft is leading the development of topological quantum computing which it claims is far less error-prone than rival quantum computing approaches. Microsoft wants to apply 1000 low error topological quantum qubits in about five years on the Azure cloud computing …

With a projected annual growth rate of over 5% a year, ASEAN is forecasted to overtake the EU and Japan to become the 4th largest economy in the world by 2050, behind China, India, and the US. This growth is …

Eight years after Iran’s Green Movement and antigovernment protests, will the current unrest in the nation have no lasting impact or is it the beginning of the end for the repressive theocracy? Abbas Milani, a Hoover research fellow has made …