What do futurologists think about it? In the end of the 20^th century, a group of specialists formulated the following scientifically-based predictions for 2010:

	The Year 2010 - The Year of Great Consequences

- Solar activity will drop.
- There will be a large flood in South-East Asia
- Birth-rate in Europe will decrease.
- Russia and Belarus will experience economic upturn.
- An era of matriarchate will commence to last for 23 years.
- A new union will be formed involving the US, Europe, and countries of the Pacific basin
- New political and economic theories will start to form, and they will drastically change the future.
- New robots-androids will appear and will be introduced to day-to-day life
- Scientific evidence of the existence of soul will be discovered.
- Hadron collider will crash and form a black hole of artificial origin.
Predictions of Lev Melnikov, Russian futurologist.
- A possibility of development of virtual human nature will be researched.
- Cloning will be banned.
- A cluster computer of the world scale will be introduced.
- Households will use robots to help with chores.
- The UFO mystery will be solved, and our planet will be visited by guests from other planets.

The majority of predictors are inclined to believe that although years of the Tiger can be tough, they bring about many changes that are necessary to move forward. Let’s hope this happens again.