News What will happen between now and 2020?

[Phrak]

What Are Your Real-World Predictions of how the world will change between today and 2020 in the Global Eco-Social Domain?

 

[drizzle]

A LOT.

 

[Pengwuino]

It wont.

 

[WhoWee]

A strategy for the closing of Gitmo will be debated?

 

[FlexGunship]

What Are Your Real-World Predictions of how the world will change between today and 2020 in the Global Eco-Social Domain?

A significant number of new calendars will be printed and consumed. Many of them will be made from post-consumer content. Almost all calendars will have month names printed on each page, and the number 3 will appear repeatedly.

Okay, I'm totally going to post again... I have lots of ideas!

 

[lisab]

Little of this, little of that.

 

[FlexGunship]

• Touch screens will be replaced by smell screens; developers will tout their informational density
• Apple will release the new iTampon. People will make fun of the name at first, but eventually it will be "no big deal"
• Someone will claim "voting fraud" at some election somewhere in the world
• Japan will drift further out to sea in response to more weird stuff coming out of the Koreas
• People will complain about things they don't understand
• USB 3.0 will resist widespread adoption for a while, but Skynet will fix that
• Brown will be the new orange, and orange will be the new Apple
• Dogs will invent a sport in which they pit ravenous quarterbacks against each other in battle on a large field; it will be denounced by the masses as "entertaining"
• McDonald's will get rid of the McRib again only to bring it back after the fire-bombings start
• Barack Obama will become the second president (after Cleveland) to serve two non-consecutive terms
• Surprisingly, history will actually vindicate G.W. Bush; unfortunately, he will be insulted by the idea of "being vindicated"
• Noobs will be appreciably pwned
• A method for taking the indefinite integral of a function but not having a constant-of-integration left over will be discovered
• NASA, with nothing better to do, will simply start littering the surface of moons and planets with rovers
• Highways will be privatized. The resulting competition will lead to a large range or roads of different qualities which the consumer can pick from by paying different amounts. Private security will be hired to patrol the new private highways and people will avoid driving on roads with overly intrusive security.
• The RIAA will simply start assaulting people at random
• Much to the surprise of no one at all, Jack Thompson will say something stupid
• Flex will hijack some more threads

 

[WhoWee]

The Browns will almost make it to the Super Bowl.

 

[Char. Limit]

The US dollar will collapse, the Euro will collapse, the Pound will collapse, China will cash in their debt, the US will become a police state, and all American newspapers will be shut down.

 

[WhoWee]

The US dollar will collapse, the Euro will collapse, the Pound will collapse, China will cash in their debt, the US will become a police state, and all American newspapers will be shut down.

...and the Cleveland Browns?

 

[humanino]

You mean between today and 2012, right ?

 

[Char. Limit]

...and the Cleveland Browns?

They will also become a police state. After the dollar collapses, the Cleveland Browns will use their influence to take over Southwest Ohio.

 

[jobyts]

A single currency worldwide.

 

[Janus]

Cell phone technology will undergo a revolution when "speech to text", "text to speech" and "real time texting" combine to make it seem like you are actually talking to someone directly.

 

[Evo]

Cell phone technology will undergo a revolution when "speech to text", "text to speech" and "real time texting" combine to make it seem like you are actually talking to someone directly.

 

[jobyts]

at 2020, Julian Assange might run out of secrets...

 

[Andre]

How about checking the Y2K predictions over the decade 2000-2010?

 

[g33kski11z]

They will also become a police state. After the dollar collapses, the Cleveland Browns will use their influence to take over Southwest Ohio.

.. the browns would be lucky if they could 'influence' cleveland, let alone any of ohio..

 

[Newai]

• Flex will hijack some more threads

There are some sweet gems in there.

 

[CAC1001]

If peak oil doesn't occur in 2015 to 2017 the way claimed, then in 2020, peak oilers will be saying 2025 is when the crap hits the fan.

 

[WhoWee]

Confidence in the Asian markets will be eroded after a series of adjustments.

 

[nismaratwork]

Miley Cyrus will decline, Lindsy Lohan will die, and I won't care at all.. not. at. all.

Oh, probably a few elections and a war or two... maybe some genocide. I think it's going to be a brisk century for the human race.

 

[nismaratwork]

If peak oil doesn't occur in 2015 to 2017 the way claimed, then in 2020, peak oilers will be saying 2025 is when the crap hits the fan.

Ideologues will be sterilized in accordance with their dystopian fantasies of leftist euthanasia plots.

 

[WhoWee]

Ideologues will be sterilized in accordance with their dystopian fantasies of leftist euthanasia plots.

Will it be blamed on "climate change"?

 

[nismaratwork]

Will it be blamed on "climate change"?

Nah, death panels, Jan Brewer, and gay people in the military.

EDIT: truth time... I also touched myself in an impure manner back in '98, so I think that does it too...

 

[mheslep]

One or more US states will default on their debts before 2015.

 

[nismaratwork]

One or more US states will default on their debts before 2015.

California or Arizona or Michigan... who'llitbe who'llitbe...

 

[Office_Shredder]

2012.

2013.

2014.

2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020.

In a freak LHC accident, the year 2018 will be skipped entirely

 

[nismaratwork]

2012.

2013.

2014.

2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020.

In a freak LHC accident, the year 2018 will be skipped entirely

 

[FlexGunship]

There are some sweet gems in there.

Any favorites? I have a million more, but thought the list was too long already.

• Continuing the current trend: laptops will replace desktops, netbooks will replace laptops, tablets will replace netbooks, and punch-card mainframes will replace tablets.
• Someone will add a third wheel to the Segway reducing the cost by 70% and making it considerably easier to produce
• The internet will be replaced...

 

[WhoWee]

Someone will invent a snack food that both tastes good and isn't bad for you.

 

[JaredJames]

Someone will invent a snack food that both tastes good and isn't bad for you.

Well for me that already exists. Not a fan of fruit WhoWee?

Monetary, I see things getting worse.

Jobs, I see things getting worse.

Population, continuing exploding.

Weather, getting colder (a plus as far as I'm concerned).

Living costs, sky-rocketing.

 

[FlexGunship]

Tropicana will drinkify snacks. However, what they never counted on, was that they would also snackify drinks!

Source: Penny Arcade

 

[AlephZero]

The day that Obama was elected, I made a bet with somebody that the POTUS after Obama will be more stupid than Palin.

I still think I'm going to win that one.

 

[FlexGunship]

The day that Obama was elected, I made a bet with somebody that the POTUS after Obama will be more stupid than Palin.

I still think I'm going to win that one.

What? You think he'll be re-elected?

 

[nismaratwork]

Tropicana will drinkify snacks. However, what they never counted on, was that they would also snackify drinks!

Source: Penny Arcade

Have you seen the other two?
#2: "I had developed the FIFTH MATTER. Solid. Liquid. Gas. Plamsa. And now, SLYRUP."

#3: "I had drinkified a snack, yes- but I had also snackified a drink. The result was a localized snackularity. And I was the very eye of the storm." (PA)

I really hope that dark matter doesn't turn out to be Slyrup.

 

[FlexGunship]

Have you seen the other two?

I never miss Penny Arcade nor xkcd.

 

[nismaratwork]

I never miss Penny Arcade nor xkcd.

Amen brother! *terrorist fist bump*


note: I watch too much 'Psych'...

 

[FlexGunship]

Amen brother! *terrorist fist bump*


note: I watch too much 'Psych'...

HIJACK!

 

[nismaratwork]

HIJACK!

I call that a good hijack!

 

[mugaliens]

The result was a localized snackularity.

Wasn't that the focus of a really bad Disney film circa 1979?

 

[WhoWee]

Well for me that already exists. Not a fan of fruit WhoWee?

I have a rule - never trust anything out of a vending machine that isn't in a vac sealed package.

 

[nismaratwork]

Wasn't that the focus of a really bad Disney film circa 1979?

I can't argue the point.

WhoWee: Smart... food poisoning is so miserable...
I'll take my fruit in fruit form, as fruit... from a purveyor of food... and fruits.

Barring that, I'll drink juice before I choke down SLYRUP.

 

[nismaratwork]

I checked, and no one has taken this one yet:

What will happen?...

Dogs and Cats... together... CARNALLY! *theremin music*

 

[PhilKravitz]

Arizona has stopped paying for most transplants for medicaid patients. I predict that by 2020 more than 30 other states will do the same.

 

[nismaratwork]

Arizona has stopped paying for most transplants for medicaid patients. I predict that by 2020 more than 30 other states will do the same.

I hate what AZ is doing, but is it in fact MOST transplants? I was under the impression that it was a small minority: liver, lung, and complete bone-marrow.

 

[WhoWee]

I hate what AZ is doing, but is it in fact MOST transplants? I was under the impression that it was a small minority: liver, lung, and complete bone-marrow.

How long do you need to live in CA to qualify for their benefits? I heard a commentator say Berkley officials want to pay for sex change operations too - anyone familiar?

 

[nismaratwork]

How long do you need to live in CA to qualify for their benefits? I heard a commentator say Berkley officials want to pay for sex change operations too - anyone familiar?

Not at all, sorry... CA politics changes so quickly I can't keep up.