“The World in 2016” marks 30 years that The Economist has been in the prediction game. Every year around this time, our writers and some invited guests put their heads together to tell the world what will happen next year. This year, we have a special section on how it’s done: we have an astrologer, a novelist, numerous futurologists and experts on testing predictors themselves, each of whom tell us how they look into their future in a different way.
