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PREDICTING FUTURE

Predictions for 2022: Official Bingo Card

Faisal Khan
Open Source X
Published in
4 min readJan 8, 2022

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Wouldn’t it be amazing if one had a crystal ball to look into the future, but then again there would be no fun left in life. After all, the future is what you make of it. But it’s human nature to predict what’s to come. This holds true especially in times of uncertainty as to the one we are battling right now. The pandemic has thrown a huge challenge to humanity — almost two years and there’s still no end in sight. On the optimistic side, vaccines & other promising treatments have provided a light at the end of the tunnel.

Every year thousands of experts from different fields share their predictions about the year ahead — based on experience, available information and accompanying analysis. Having said that, that still doesn’t cover all the basics. There would always be unpredictable events and when it comes to these events, nature has its own way of stirring up many. For example, in 2020, almost nobody had a pandemic on their bingo card, while in 2021, NFTs completely flew under the radar of experts.

As is the precedent every year, the official bingo card (infographic above), shows the prediction consensus by…

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Faisal Khan
Open Source X

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