ZapFuture Community of Experts successfully predicted Google stock at $300

June 18, 2005 (PRLEAP.COM) Business News
ZapFuture Community of Experts successfully predicted Google stock at $300. The shares, which went public August 2004 at $85 a share, are up more than 200% from that and scratching at $300. October last year, a top ZapFuture.com expert posted a prediction expecting GOOG to reach $300 by December this year.

Another clever member picked CUNO as his favourite long-term investment. CUNO was recently bought by 3M and its stock price soared.

But ZapFuture predictions go way beyond Wall Street’s bears and bulls. New Breakthroughs in Science or Killer Apps Technology Advances, Tomorrow's Society, Our Future World, Our Planet and the Environment, Forecasts on Global Politics, Economy and Governments or Trends on the main Corporate Industries like Retail, Food, Travel, Publishing, Music, Movies, Gaming, Telecoms, Transportation, Lifestyle. There’s also the Fun Playground and the Sport Prognostics Zone.

ZapFuture.com brings together future experts with managers in need of new business ideas. It’s a free, non-profit community whose main goal is to promote people with great visions about what the future will be.

Expert users can post their predictions on the issues they know best; other users rate them, moderators check for accuracy and top members gain prizes, recognition and the attention of industry executives. In turn, to these executives, top managers and CEOs ZapFuture.com offers brilliant new selected business ideas.

One of the most popular predictions is the free refrigerator. According to the prediction, Wal-Mart will be the first to introduce, by 2008, the free refrigerator for consumers who sign for the three year full service delivery: all goods inside the refrigerator will be from Wal-Mart and remotely traceable.

The top rated prediction is about the Future of P2P. It says that, in ten years, the best P2P tool for sharing music will be made by the RIAA and the best tool for sharing movies will come from the MPAA. The author defends it will take them ten years to understand that in case you can’t beat them…you’ve better take control.

How about a Google Operating System, to be released by 2009? This prediction, on the form of a futuristic press release, argues Google OS will be Google's final strike at Microsoft (yet) global domination.

Other remarkable examples include issues like a clever solution to reduce traffic accidents, forecasts on how to solve today’s controversial social issues, like abortion or euthanasia, via the redefinition of birth and death concepts, or discovering what USA and Argentina economies have in common.

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