Brian Wang is a long-time futurist and writer of some 8000 articles on nextbigfuture.com. Nextbigfuture is a top 5 science website and has over one million page views per month (RSS feed reads and regular website). Brian has studied extinction risks and all of the current major causes of death and damage and how to mitigate them. He made a set of 156 predictions in 2006 for nanotech-now and many of the predictions for the 5 year or less timeframe have proven to be accurate. He had a long bet prediction in 2006.