He Los Angeles Times explore an interesting exercise to forecast the future. In 2018, robotics entrepreneur Rodney Brooks made a list of predictions about hot tech topics like robots, space travel, and AI, “and promised to review them every year until January 1, 2050, when, if he’s still alive, he’ll have just He turned 95.”

His goal was to “inject some reality into what I saw as irrational exuberance.” Each prediction had a time frame: something would have happened on a certain date, or not before a certain date, or “not in my lifetime.” Brooks released his fifth annual scorecard on New Year’s Day. Most of his predictions have been spot on, though this time he confessed to thinking that he too had allowed the hype to do so…