• Within 10 years, a computer will be world chess champion.

• Within 10 years, a computer will discover and prove an important theorem.

• Within 10 years, a computer will write music that is accepted by critics.

• Within 10 years, most theories in Psychology will be computer programs.

• Deep blue defeated Gary Kasparov, the world chess champion, in a seven game chess match (1997)

• A computer at Argonne National Labs proved a mathematical theorem that had been a conjecture worked on by top mathematicians for 65 years. (McCune, 1996)

• Experiments in Musical Intelligence (EMI), a program created by Steve Larson of the U of Oregon and composer David Cope, passed a musical version of the Turing test when observers were not able to distinguish EMI's compositions from Bach's. (1997)

• Numerous psychological theories have been embodied in computer programs, including PARRY (Colby, 1975), EURISKO (Lenat, 1983), SOAR (Newell, 1990), ACT-R ( NetTalk, Sejnowski, 1987).

• A computer would defeat the human world chess champion by 1998 and we'll think less of chess as a result.

• A worldwide information network linking almost all organizations and tens of millions of individuals will emerge. (WWW, 1994)

• In warfare there will be almost total reliance on digital imaging, pattern recognition, smart bombs, and other software-based technologies. (Gulf War, Yugoslav wars)

• In warfare there will be almost total reliance on digital imaging, pattern recognition, smart bombs, and other software-based technologies. (Gulf War, Yugoslav wars)

• Continuous speech recognition with large vocabularies will emerge in the early 1990s (1996, Dragon Speak and others, telephone translation, 1999)

• The technology for self-driving cars using special sensors in the road will be available by the end of the 1990s. Currently such cars are being tested in LA, Tokyo, London, and other cities.