Each year, Fortune magazine presents an interesting series of predictions for the coming year.
The 2017 “crystal ball” is based on these principles (and includes the use of IBM Watson 🙂 ):
“The election of Donald Trump to the presidency represents a seismic shift in American politics, an event with implications nearly impossible to predict. One casualty of the election, indeed, may be the science of prediction itself. For all their algorithmic gymnastics, pollsters and betting markets were utterly confounded by Trump’s win. Which is why it’s essential to have a prediction tool that relies as much on art (and whimsy) as it does on science. And this year, for some extra insight, we’ve even teamed up with artificial-intelligence powerhouse IBM Watson, which mined tens of millions of sources to help us spot hidden trends. Here, we offer our well-informed, intuitive take on the stories that will shape business—and much else—in the coming year.”
Fortune’s 2017 predictions are divided into several categories:
- Techno-Futurism
- Politics
- Economy
- The World
- Trendsetters
- More Companies Tie the Knot
- Where Fortune Is Placing Its Bets
- How We Did in 2016
Click the image to read the 2017 predictions.
