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Robert Paterson has a weblog where he talks about various topics.   And over a couple days, he posted three related articles about
"The Fractal History of Mankind":
    •   Hari Seldon's Psychohistory Is Real (http://smartpei.typepad.com/robert_patersons_weblog/2009/04/in-this-recession-can-we-know-what-the-future-will-be-like-sort-of-yes.html)
    •   Our Time (http://smartpei.typepad.com/robert_patersons_weblog/2009/04/the-fractal-history-of-mankind-part-2-our-time.html)
    •   Our Future (http://smartpei.typepad.com/robert_patersons_weblog/2009/04/the-fractal-history-of-mankind-part-3-our-transition.html)

It starts off referencing the "Foundation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_Trilogy)" trilogy, which is an epic science fiction series by Isaac Asimov.   
But it quickly branches off into many other areas.   I thought it was an interesting read.
 

Gregg Braden has a book out called Fractal Time and has an online calculator for predicting similar conditions. I'm not sure about his math....never looked into it but I reckon there's something in it that time and history may have a fractal nature.

His calculator is here:
http://www.greggbraden.com/fractal-time-calculator

Really a very interesting article, thanks for posting.

edit 3years later:
I bought the Greg Braden book. And stopped reading pretty soon. It's far to esoteric and maya 2012 mumbojumbo for my taste.

I too think that history shows  obvious fractal patterns. There's no need to spice it up with crap like that, it kills credibility.
Popup-commercials on his site to buy more from him: "LEARNING THIS ANCIENT MAGICAL PRAYER WILL INSTANTLY TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE"

I think he is damaging serious research with what he does.

Patinsons stuff is still great. That's how this should be done. Too bad it got so little recognition.

Interesting. I always liked predictions about the Future. And Asimov and his Foundation series.