http://www.wfs.org/ (http://www.wfs.org/)
Only just found this. Lots of interesting articles on future predictions and new and upcoming technologies.
You nerds should love it :D
Some bloody scary stuff on there!
http://www.wfs.org/blogs/len-rosen/brazil-there-war-going-rainforest
Ooh!...nice.
If it's any consolation, I bought a book in a charity shop a few years ago called The Book of Predictions - published in 1980, it featured essays by various scientists and writers trying to predict the next 50-70 years.
It was so absurd as to be quite quaint - most of them thought we'd all be living in a nuclear wasteland by now.