Jan 1 2023 - Predictions this year

 

What are the predictions for 2023?   Our great psychics are listed as: Nostradamus, Edgar Cayce, Jeanne Dixon, Ingo Swann, Sylvia Browne, John Edward, Doreen Virtue, Chip Coffey, VBaba Vanga and Esther Hicks.  That's according to the best psychics.club.  Today  it is Nostradamus' turn.  He's still making the news after all these centuries with over 6,300 prophecies: Predictions 2023  World War  Nostradamus wrote, "Seven months the Great War, people dead of evil-doing." Mars landing  The French mystic cryptically referred to a "light on Mars falling", suggesting that humans could possibly visit the Red Planet in 2023. New Pope  Nostradamus' third prediction for 2023 is a new Pope succeeding Francis. He suggested that Pope Francis will be the last true Pope and that the next Pope will create a scandal. New World Order  Nostradamus' final prediction for 2023 talked about the new alliance of two great powers coming together. The new alignment will potentially be between a strong man and a weak one or even a male and a female leader. However, the alliance's good effects will not be long-lasting. While there are more details for each one, his language is strange and vague  so I left most of it out.   Here they are with another author's own comments.

Our pictures today are abstracts - rain on the windshield in the foreground and a lamp post in the background.

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Jan 2 2020 - Out with the Old and In with the New

 

“Out with the old, in with the new” means to leave old things or ideas behind and start fresh with new things or ideas. People usually say this at the beginning of a new year or at the beginning of something new.   This answer comes from Quora, the website where top-ranked questions are answered by a "community."  The answers that come from this community range far and wide. I am sorry to have Quora always at the top of the answer stack.  It has figured out that Google is in the business of showing webpages that answer questions.  Quora answers questions in whatever way its "community" feels like.  So the answers can be nonsense, vicious rants, hate speech, vulgarities, unrelated ads, or factual answers.  We have to figure it all out, and Quora is in business by making sure an appropriate "answer" hits the top. I went to Marian Salzman's website HERE for her view on 2021 trends.  What is the New that will be ushered in? Let's start with the headlines of past trends: 2010:  Cellphones are the new transfats 2011 The new social is antisocial 2012 Let's get reality competitive 2013 Small is the new big 2014 Massification of organics 2015 Self everything 2016 Uneasy street 2017 Sleep as a status symbol 2018 Cryptocurrency craze 2019 Reality meets virtuality 2020 Chaos the new normal In the 2021 introduction, Salzman compares Y2K and C-19 and what the threats were/are and our responses to them.  She says our Y2K fears materialized a decade later - in 2020.   She says that we are in a different world in 2020 than we were in 1999: "More divided. More skeptical. Less willing to put aside partisan ideology in service to the greater good. Our calendars have advanced two decades, but society appears to be moving—sometimes at hyperspeed—in the opposite direction." In her annual trends report, Marian explores 11 ideas that will influence life choices and behaviours and ultimately become the next normal. Mostly these ideas feed into new product development, marketing products and investment strategies.  That's what her company does.  She always offers ideas that lead to economic advantage.  However, she includes some that are societal and political - so a broader view is also given.   It is the final sentence of the report that brings attention to this broader view.  What does she end with?  I'll show you.     Our picture of the day is my version of out with the old of 2020. It turns out to be a visual expression of her 2020 trend "Chaos the new normal".     Purchase at: FAA - marilyncornwellart.com Redbubble - marilyncornwellart.ca

Jan 3 - - New Stuff Just In

FutureTimeline.net on its home page says Welcome to the future!  Explore our timeline of future predictions... Latest updates HERE are fascinating.   The 2020-2029 Entries are HERE Most of these are big-scale, government sorts of milestones.  It is in 2024 that something everyday seems to come up:   Bio-electronics for treating arthritis is in common use Arthritis is a form of joint disorder caused by trauma or infection of a joint, or old age. As of the 2010s, it was the single most common type of disability in the United States, predominantly affecting the elderly and resulting in over 20 million individuals having severe limitations in function on a daily basis. Total costs of arthritis cases were close to $100 billion annually, a figure expected to increase dramatically in the future with an aging population. Treatments for arthritis usually involved a combination of medication, exercise and lifestyle modification, but a cure remained elusive. In 2014, a breakthrough involving the use of bio-electronics was unveiled by researchers. This took the form of a pacemaker-style device embedded in the necks of patients, firing bursts of electrical impulses to stimulate the vagus nerve – a crucial link between the brain and major organs. The impulses were shown to reduce activity in the spleen, in turn producing fewer chemicals and immune cells that would normally cause inflammation in the joints of patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Over half of people saw a dramatic improvement, even for severe symptoms, with up to 30% achieving remission. After successful clinical trials, another decade of progress led to next-generation implants miniaturised to the size of rice grains, as well as improvements in cost and efficacy. By 2024, it is a routine form of treatment in many countries.Bio-electronics are showing promise in other areas too. For example, they can prevent the airway spasms of asthma, control appetite in obesity, and help restore normal insulin production in diabetes. This has personal meaning to many of us and gives us optimism for our future health and well-being.

We're into January and this is the month I seem to do a lot of "colouring".   I started with a spring image of daffodils and put them through the Topaz Lab Impressions Filter.

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Jan 4 2020 - More about this year

Yesterday I found a ten year outlook.  Today I found one for 2020. This visual map is a presentation the analysis of the experts' predictions for this year.  The format comes from visualcapitalist.com in the article HERE.  The website presents all of its analysis with visual representations. Isn't the visual presentation appealing?  What does it reveal to put it all in one place? Well, I don't think it is all in one place.  There's no prediction for the U.S. presidential race.  They address this in the commentary - that no one is willing to predict this - but they left it out of the bingo card. That should be the centre square, to my mind.  The second observation is the lack of coverage of Brexit - I am wondering how it can have no impact on the U.S.  And finally, to cover only business and economic trends, as though social forces will not have business or economic influence, is ignoring what has been happening in the last few years. Putting this on a bingo card is worth commenting on as a key message of the analysis.  Bingo is a game a chance:  this is a cliff-hanger year.  Who will be the winner in bingo this year?    We turn to remarkable train layout scenes today - this is the Sundance display when it travelled to the Seattle train convention in 2012.  It now lives in Florida on permanent display.

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