Between February 2009 and December 2010, we spoke to hundreds of people about the future. A few dozen of these people were nice enough to make predictions about the future.

Some of these predictions took the form of elaborate short stories, or intricate drawings or maps.

Click on their names to see what these participants submitted to the project. (Note: to see these predictions in context, click on "Timeline & findings", above.)

2025: I predict that the parking lot of Porter Square shopping center will have a green roof installed above it which becomes a community garden. People will grow their own fruits and veggies and have a barter-driven farmers' market on Saturdays. Somerville will have annexed the shopping center to help the city of Cambridge stay afloat.

Also, Somerville will install more of the rotating red sculptures currently on display at the Porter Square T stop. They will be cleverly-disguised wind turbines. 2014

Every door to every business in Somerville will be fitted with a microgenerator, so every time people enter and exit shops, restaurants, and offices, they will be helping to power the electrical grid. 2015.

All exercise equipment in gyms will render the health club energy-neutral. 2013.

(source: Adam Olenn)