About this episode
As the devastating tsunami reshapes our understanding of nature's power, can we predict what other earth-changing events await humanity? Art Bell concludes the annual predictions tradition on New Year's Eve, with the recent Indian Ocean disaster serving as a sobering reminder of how quickly our world can transform. The show opens with reflection on this biblical-scale catastrophe that caught the world unprepared, demonstrating both the fragility of human civilization and the limitations of our forecasting abilities. Against this backdrop, listeners share their final predictions for 2005, each vision carefully recorded and numbered for future verification. Bell explores how major disasters like the tsunami affect our collective consciousness and ability to perceive coming changes. The evening captures the tension between our desire to know the future and our humbling recognition that some events exceed all prediction, leaving us to face tomorrow with both wisdom and uncertainty.