Predictions for 2009 - the official new web bot forecast is in!
Coast To Coast radio recently featured the web bot team in their Annual "Predictions Show" which included their official forecast for 2009. If you haven't heard of it before the web bots are a scientific way of predicting future events using computers to scour thousands of bits of data from the Internet (see below video to learn more). They have had many accurate predictions , including September 11, hurricane Katrina, the tsunamis and the recent economic collapse, often down to the correct date as well.

You may want to bookmark and read through the summary forecast notes for 2009. The notes give a general forecast for the months ahead in 2009. I am not going to spoil it yet so you need to read the notes yourself.

Overall here a few interesting extracts from the forecast notes:

2009 is the “Year of Transformation” Take a snapshot of where you were today and your life situation is likely to be significantly different by year end – to be changed
by this year’s pending events.

Possible economic collapse of USA due to additive impacts of the socioeconomic contract breakdown

* Housing bubble collapse
* Debt instrument bubble collapse
* Possible repudiation of the US dollar
* Global Coastal Event
* “Secrets revealed” start to pour out of NASA and political offices
* End of the ‘comfortable high tech/high consumption’ lifestyle and an involuntary return to lifestyle of previous generations

Future historians are likely to see ‘economic dislocations’ and a ‘fuzzy revolution’ as the highlights of the year. This will peak over what’s described as the ‘summer of hell’ globally.

* U.S. government will begin to collapse. Perhaps not in head count, but with revenues falling dramatically, 30-40% decreases in government size & services seem likely by year end.
* Two waves of ‘whistle-blowers’ are expected. The first as the Bush administration leaves office may focus on purported misdeeds/abuses while a second set of whistleblower cases is expected in the May-June period as massive change comes to NASA, JPL, and highly placed military personnel who may face job impacts due to the economy bouncing around.




if you have acrobat reader you can read the file. which is in the attachment.

Boy am I glad I don't live in the states, those poor guys are going to have a shit year!

Gee thanks for the concern and for obvious warnings...

-Iwant2believe2 (Quote found somewhere on this forum)

The study in my opinion is a faulted. The main source of information gathering is only limited to people's interpretations of the news and discussions in e-land. Did I forget to mention that a human programed the coding for this "e-social interpreter"

I try not to dis-credit such advances in programing and data gathering but the study is simply doom-lovers collection of possible out comes based on scoring of language use and social algorithms...and perhaps many other variables. Point is...thinking is the first step in manifesting...if the first thing you see on the news is bad news what do you suppose you initial reaction will be?

This web bot is good in opinion I just wish people would "dig the sand out" here in America and come to terms with the fact that we were doomed from the get go when we didn't check our thoughts and opinions. The face of USA may not change in 09 but many will get to know it better...too much reliance on a government by its' people will only stand strong as its people. Its the ultimatum that makes you sick sometimes but you hold it back out of respect for the ones who made a mortal sacrifice on 'the peoples' behalf.

Yes. We will be halving a steep crap summer as good as the taxes will allow us to have...hehehe

peace,
Austin

(I still maintain hope for that is the only thing I have left besides my actions)

Since computers have not yet exceeded the capacity of the human mind, and don't have the ability of creative thought, this web bot has done nothing more than throw out a random prediction it found on the internet. In a sense... It's basically a Google style search engine, specialised to find certain information. It's akin typing Doomsday Prediction into Google and clicking "I'm Feeling Lucky".
Whatever happens to the economy of America is going to be having an effect on the entire world over the next few years, combine that with how other countries are also suffering from economic troubles, and everything's pretty much going to shit; that is, if effective measures aren't implemented in time.

If we as a species weren't so damn reliant on money there would be no problem. I've always said we should go back to the 'fur trade' days and do away with money entirely. The way you'd obtain things is by trading what you have to offer. You and your family specialize in one thing and use that as your 'currency'. However, since we have become so materialistic this can never happen. It's truly sad to be human these days.

Using a web bot prediction can map communications trends and the things people find of concern. As for making predictions, thats more controlled by what the disigners find relevent to search.

So its basicly biased and meaningless, and limited by places it can't go.

Entertainment value only.

Exactly...tho its worth mentioning that gamblers at universities with web bot programming make good money.

Cant find a source right now but I know people use bots and math to calculate team chances for seeded positions...just saying that there is a little truth behind the applications of web bots.


peace,
Austin

ps...here is just one of many news articles on such things...Link

pss. Sorry K-Wurx the idea of money is a train that you cant stop but have a choice to get off....kind of like the old saying shit or get off the pot...meh

I can see that a bot could make good predictions for sports events. It coallates a lot of opinions. Like getting the opinion of every handicapper and sports enthusiest in the world.

Bussiness boardrooms work like that. A consensus of opinions is better than a single one. Thats part of the problem of why we are in the economics crunch now. Individual greed overiding the consensus. Where was Maidoff's board of directors?

The difference is that gambling, and event outcomes often can be put into percent probabilities by use of logic algorithms.
Looking on the net won't help you, since you need non biased data. But, if you feed the predictor the performance record of the team, and of each individual player; it can calculate who's most likely to win without the bias you get.
A bot can't tell the future though... It can predict possibly outcomes on things like stocks - but not consequences based upon that outcome; that's down to human understanding.

(A reason gathering opinions won't work. Say football club A had 10,000 hard core supports, and club B had 10,000 hard core supporters. Each one will probably thing that their team is likely to win. Like, let say it's on a continuum. -10 to 10. 10 being that club a will definitely win, and -10 being club b will definitely win. If it gathered the average, the likely outcome would be 0. Meaning that on average, people believe it will be a draw.)
And peoples opinions are always wrong... Like mine above has a few things wrong, like, what if they used a mode average? (Median would probably = 0 too)
It'd probably equal both 10 and -10, in which case, you have two options. try and reduce that, which = 0, or dump the data and figure out a new way.

The bot also can't judge the intelligence of the person making the idea.
For example.
Person 1: "Yoo, I thik its gonna be bad dude lke all shitt"
Person 2: "Ye I tink tht 2"
Person 3: "Actually, if you had bothered to keep up with recent updates in the news and the media, you would see that various proposals have been offered to help increase the economy bad to its former level"
Person 2: "Fook yoo commie"
The opinion that it's all going to shit has the most agreement with it, and is believed by the majority, 2/3. Whilst Person 3 received no peer support, and received criticism. So yeah.... Opinion based web-bots = fail.

{That was meant to go in my first post... Oh well, too late to edit it in.}

I really think that this year is the year were we fall into Inflation.
This is gonna be a rough year for us in the U.S.

Please pray for us =]