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Crystal Ball 2033: What the World Will be Like in 25 Years
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- There will be flying cars.
- Everyone will have microchips in their wrist so there is no need to carry around credit cards or a driver's license.
- Due to global warming, there will be no winter... it is always summer.
We will be emerging from the economic collapse of 2009.
There are no American owned car companies.
Steve Jobs comes out of retirement to save Apple.
Angelina Jolie will pop out her 29th kid.
President-elect Chelsea Clinton will assume office on 1/21/33.
There are no American owned car companies.
Steve Jobs comes out of retirement to save Apple.
Angelina Jolie will pop out her 29th kid.
President-elect Chelsea Clinton will assume office on 1/21/33.
The year 2038 bug will be solved, by returning all technology to the day of the abacus.
Ron Jeremy will win a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Lead Actor in a Play after going on a diet and replacing Daniel Radcliffe as the lead character of Equus.
And finally (for now), Dick Clark will still be Rocking out New Year's Eve by performing the countdown, followed by an Anniversary episode of American Bandstand, featuring a Jackson Browne concert; both who will still look 23 years old.
BL.
Ron Jeremy will win a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Lead Actor in a Play after going on a diet and replacing Daniel Radcliffe as the lead character of Equus.
And finally (for now), Dick Clark will still be Rocking out New Year's Eve by performing the countdown, followed by an Anniversary episode of American Bandstand, featuring a Jackson Browne concert; both who will still look 23 years old.
BL.
The world will be run by Microsoft...Mondays will become part of the weekend due to "maintenace" being carried out on the servers 
We will all be fat, lazy and spend our days interacting with others via computers.
Oh, that's now...
Oh, that's now...
Prepare for the pessimistic list of preposterous claims:
I think I'll probably end it all before we get far down the wrong road...
- The first large scale abandonment of certain areas/islands will begin (due to global warming)
- Hydrogen cars will still be a thing of the future, although Hybrids will have a large market share, electric cars still won't be mainstream.
- The first wars over water will begin
- A lack of funding into renewable energy plants begins to hit as nuclear waste hits an all time high
- Half the world will be too fat, the other half will be too poor.
I think I'll probably end it all before we get far down the wrong road...
I envision a slightly more dystopian tomorrow. (NOT a Tomroll or Rickroll) We're talking 1984-quality stuff here... That is, if humans are left to their own devices.
I will be leading a rag-tag all-female band of cyberpunk warriors against the zombie apocalypse.
nano technology finally extends range of electric cars beyond gas powered cars completely phasing out hybrid and combustion engine technology, china becomes a super power, a bullet train between SF and LA, First alien contact via radio, man on mars, stem cell research provides cure for most chronic ailments, scientists are in the process of exploiting cancer cells to extend human life, first terabyte phone, scientists discover God particle (actually a string), apple now sells mac os for all computers, and pixar makes a bad movie.
What I would like to see is a new youth culture that scares the crap out of adults and completely changes fashion, music and art. The last time that really happened was punk/new wave. Come on kids, I know you have it in ya. Scare me. P*** me off. Do something that hasn't been done before.
Sorry they're too busy with their youtubes and their rock 'em sock 'em robots on their phones. Technology has killed their creativity.
Heh, Water Wars brings to mind the "resource wars" that were the driving force in the game Earth 2150, and for y'all who don't know it, Fallout.
I predict whats happening now, poverty, starvation, death, war and generally people being pissed off at the government. Fairly safe bets I'd say. Maybe if we're lucky it won't go in the ******* and we can have some of that fun tech from Mike Villas' World
I predict whats happening now, poverty, starvation, death, war and generally people being pissed off at the government. Fairly safe bets I'd say. Maybe if we're lucky it won't go in the ******* and we can have some of that fun tech from Mike Villas' World
I know. Had this discussion after a film screening at Columbia College on the history of punk. It was sad. Kids look the same now as they did over 20 years ago. WTF is that all about? I don't believe that everything has been done before. There's always something new to be discovered. If the past 8 years didn't wake them up though, I doubt anything will.
Focus beam chemotherapy.
HIV vaccine.
Heart and liver replacement.
100 megapixel cameras.
1TB compact flash memory.
ultra-efficient cars and trucks
Sub $100K orbital flights.
Moon Base?
HIV vaccine.
Heart and liver replacement.
100 megapixel cameras.
1TB compact flash memory.
ultra-efficient cars and trucks
Sub $100K orbital flights.
Moon Base?
If we play our chips right, we'll see the following by 2033:
1) Automobiles will be powered by long-range ultracapacitor batteries that charge in under 15 minutes at a commercial charging station and can go as much as 600 km (372 miles) on a single charge. They will be in general smaller externally than today's cars, but actually roomier in many ways because of the elimination of the front engine compartment.
2) We'll still have commercial trucks, freight railroad locomotives and airplanes using liquid fuel, but the fuel source will now be oil-laden algae instead of crude oil.
3) Passenger rail will be maglev trains travelling as fast as 600 km/h (372 mph), essentially obsoleting most shorter inter-city airplane travel.
4) Electric energy generation will be done mostly by highly-localized wind power, solar power, geothermal power or ocean tidal power.
5) We'll be colonizing the Moon and beginning the manned exploration of Mars, thanks to various methods of reaching space by private initiative.
6) New technologies will make desalinization of seawater much less expensive, which means we could see a lot of the world's water needs come from oceans.
7) There will be a massive rethink of taxation systems around the world that will encourage citizens to save and invest their assets. We will see a switch to either a low-percentage flat tax or a consumption tax system like FairTax.
8) Children around the world will have to learn to be at least bi-lingual right from kindergarten (and when graduating from high school have to be fluent in two languages at the high school level). We could see the rise of not only English, but French, Spanish, Russian, and Mandarin-dialect Chinese as very widely-used languages around the world for business, science and literature that can be read by a huge fraction of the world's population easily.
1) Automobiles will be powered by long-range ultracapacitor batteries that charge in under 15 minutes at a commercial charging station and can go as much as 600 km (372 miles) on a single charge. They will be in general smaller externally than today's cars, but actually roomier in many ways because of the elimination of the front engine compartment.
2) We'll still have commercial trucks, freight railroad locomotives and airplanes using liquid fuel, but the fuel source will now be oil-laden algae instead of crude oil.
3) Passenger rail will be maglev trains travelling as fast as 600 km/h (372 mph), essentially obsoleting most shorter inter-city airplane travel.
4) Electric energy generation will be done mostly by highly-localized wind power, solar power, geothermal power or ocean tidal power.
5) We'll be colonizing the Moon and beginning the manned exploration of Mars, thanks to various methods of reaching space by private initiative.
6) New technologies will make desalinization of seawater much less expensive, which means we could see a lot of the world's water needs come from oceans.
7) There will be a massive rethink of taxation systems around the world that will encourage citizens to save and invest their assets. We will see a switch to either a low-percentage flat tax or a consumption tax system like FairTax.
8) Children around the world will have to learn to be at least bi-lingual right from kindergarten (and when graduating from high school have to be fluent in two languages at the high school level). We could see the rise of not only English, but French, Spanish, Russian, and Mandarin-dialect Chinese as very widely-used languages around the world for business, science and literature that can be read by a huge fraction of the world's population easily.