Prediction of the Future: True or False

Predictions in the future range from scary to realistic. Some of these predictions include Isaac Asimov's prediction of video-calling: "Communications will become sight-sound and you will see as well as hear the person you telephone. The screen can be used not only to see the people you call but also for studying documents and photographs and reading passages from books. Synchronous satellites, hovering in space will make it possible for you to direct-dial any spot on earth, including the weather stations in Antarctica." Today that would the equivalent of Skype on your phone or computer! Predictions like the automation of jobs like tailoring and haircuts still remain to be done by humans rather than machines as predicted by French artist Villemard. Most of the predictions made seemed to hopes and dreams for the generations to come, but writers of Utopian novels like Isaac Asimov dreamed up ideas that the overtaking of technology would be the demise of the population. Predictions that take away the jobs of the people are the least realistic because we as a society still need human contact, and technology is slowly taking that away. The most standard trend seen in these predictions is the steady rise and growth of technology and population size. None of the sources I have seen predict a decline or set back in humanity. 

To take my own view of predictions, I believe technology will advance to be so encompassing that we as humans will have created a robot companion that had artificial intelligence comparable to the of a human. Even so much so that the technology that is at our fingertips will be available in the blink of an eye, or a thought. The social skills and niceties of conversation will also be disappearing with the translation of words into pictures. 

Can we really predict the Future?

To say that the individual had control of the entirety of the future is an overstep and overreaching ideal. As a whole there is a leading system of government, research facilities that would be the flood gate holding back these ideas and would release them to their own benefit. There is a rare case where the creator is your average human that hasn't already been swept up by the higher-ups. In the eyes of the government, world or national it would be utter chaos if they did not control a majority of what goes on. The future is shaped by its leaders, and based on their personal motives any new technology could be a good or bad thing.