{"id":482,"date":"2007-01-08T22:42:57","date_gmt":"2007-01-09T03:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=482"},"modified":"2007-01-09T00:38:03","modified_gmt":"2007-01-09T05:38:03","slug":"ieee-iftf-predictions-do-not-include-a-space-elevator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=482","title":{"rendered":"IEEE &#8211; IFTF predictions do not include a Space Elevator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last February and March, the Institute For The Future (IFTF)\u00a0partnered with\u00a0the Insitute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) in order to conduct a\u00a0survey;\u00a0<em>&#8220;The survey asked participants to identify key breakthroughs in their areas of expertise and then to forecast probabilities of future developments.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The survey, published in September of 2006\u00a0(IFTF pdf report available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iftf.org\/docs\/IFTF_IEEE_Tech_Survey_Spectrum_Spt06.pdf\">here<\/a> and\u00a0IEEE report available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectrum.ieee.org\/sep06\/4435\">here<\/a>), did not specifically mention a Space Elevator &#8211; an SE was only mentioned, somewhat disparagingly as something that the survey participants were too &#8220;down-to-earth&#8221; to predict.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last February and March, the Institute For The Future (IFTF)\u00a0partnered with\u00a0the Insitute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) in order to conduct a\u00a0survey;\u00a0&#8220;The survey asked participants to identify key breakthroughs in their areas of expertise and then to forecast probabilities of future developments.&#8221; The survey, published in September of 2006\u00a0(IFTF pdf report available here and\u00a0IEEE [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}