21st century- future_timeline.net and OA

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well, I image that both the writers of future timeline and OA are taking most of the same factors into account, listening to the same futurists (we're all a bit influenced by Ray Kurzweil, etc), and we're reading each other's work. Both groups are trying to create a realistic vision of the future, so if we both agree that automated cars, for example, will start to really take off around 2020-2050 (according to various industry predictions) then that's what we'll both add to the timelines. Same goes for all the other technological predictions.