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.)

2011: The U.S. government, in a special deal with the mayor of Somerville, lowers the qualifying age for Medicare to 55 for all Somerville residents, pulling hundreds of uninsured Baby Boomers back from the brink of death.

(Source: Linda Frye Burnham)