What If You Could Predict The Future?
Crystal balls, ominous prophecies, and scientific predictions abound in this week’s episode of The What If? Podcast. Conrad Schoenleber joins the show, as we try to predict the future. Humans have a lot of weird ways to figure out what’s coming. Get ready for a big dose of oracles, seers, savants, soothsayers, and more. Spencer tells us about the blind oracle Baba Vanga, Ryan talks about J.W. Dunne, and his experiments with time, and Conrad schools us on all things nerdy.
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Baba Vanga
First, we take a look at Baba Vanga. The blind prophet born in Bulagria was said to have predicted wars, world leaders, sporting events, terrorist attacks, and more.
Nostradamus
Another mystic prophet, though far more ancient than Baba Vanga, Nostradamus was born in 1503, and throughout his lifetime wrote a series of prophecies. He wrote 1,000 quatrains, and packaged them as a book titled, “The Prophecies”. The book is now his best-known work. Many people have quoted and applied the quatrains to contemporary events throughout time. They claim Nostradamus predicted 9/11, and a variety of global catastrophes and events.
Billy Meier
Generally received as a fraudster of the greatest order, Billy Meier claimed he was an alien contactee, who had received gifts and information from aliens, much of which was the prediction of future events. Per Billy’s PR agent, the aliens told him of coming asteroids and interplanetary dimensional travel.
Ray Kurzweil
One of the most famous futurists in the world, Ray Kurzweil has made a series of predictions about technology and the future in his books, the vast majority of which have come true over time. In both The Age of Intelligent Machines and The Singularity Is Near, Kurzweil’s predictions have ranged from self-driving cars to real-time translation devices and much, much more.
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