Predicting Life 100 Years From Now 552
New submitter Simon321 writes "BBC News has an interesting article about the top predictions for life 100 years from now. The highlights include extensive farming of the ocean, wiring all sorts of computers to our brains, space elevators, and the break-up of the United States. 'There are some indications already that California wants to split off and such pressures tend to build over time. It is hard to see this waiting until the end of the century. Maybe an East Coast cluster will want to break off too. Pressures come from the enormous differences in wealth generation capability, and people not wanting to fund others if they can avoid it.'"
Temples of Syrinx (Score:5, Funny)
We will find a guitar, but it will be destroyed by the priests, declaring it is a "silly whim".
Re:Oh, the Horseshit You Will Print! (Score:5, Funny)
The difference between a "futurologist" and a "psychic friend" is apparently $1.99 per minute, and you must be over 18 to call.
My predications. (Score:5, Funny)
Prediction 2 : Don't care. See prediction 1.
Re:Predictions... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:My predications. (Score:5, Funny)
You will care. Oh how you will care.
Re:So come on /., put forth YOUR predictions! (Score:4, Funny)
Obvious One... (Score:5, Funny)
100 years from now, Linux will be 5 years from taking over the desktop.
myke
Re:California wants to split off (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Oh, the Horseshit You Will Print! (Score:5, Funny)
"Futurologist?" What does it take to call oneself a 'futurologist?'
I am a futurologist
I wasn't sure until I tried it, but it's pretty easy.
Re:Oh, the Horseshit You Will Print! (Score:5, Funny)
I will be a futurologist. See, it's working already!
Re:Oh, the Horseshit You Will Print! (Score:5, Funny)
China is taking over as world superpower.
Am I the only one who welcomes that? Awesome, I say! Everyone and his grandma can blame all their miseries on China for the next century.
Re:Oh, the Horseshit You Will Print! (Score:4, Funny)
And that third one. Whatever it was. Damn. I never remember which one I mean.
Re:Oh, the Horseshit You Will Print! (Score:5, Funny)
China is not exactly a "backwater". They even have Starbucks there now.
Re:Oh, the Horseshit You Will Print! (Score:5, Funny)
Someone will invent a way of making text more readable, perhaps by splitting it into smaller chunks.
Re:Oh, the Horseshit You Will Print! (Score:5, Funny)
I have just arrived here from the year 2112 in my time machine to answer a few of your questions.
The South did win the war against the north due to everyone migrating into Canada. The problem with that is that the South wasn't happy being one state, so South North declared war on the South South which sat at a stalemate for years until Canada finally annexed the south and polited the southerners into submission. All sports other then hockey are now banned in Greater Canada and the beverage previously known as Beer in the former US was renamed "Goats Piss" by His Royal Openness Michael Geist and the 1st open source monarch.
Overpopulation was solved by the zombie crisis of 2035. The zombies actually won that but we were able to stall them by giving them their own sitcom. Groaning Pains is now in it's 76 th season although the corpse of Michael J Fox wont last that many more seasons.
China never became a real superpower because they couldn't make a decent cappuccino.
Most oil reserves ran out in 2048, in 2049 an enterprising geneticist came up with the idea of cloning dinosaurs from DNA encased in fossilised mosquitoes which then could be raised on a Costa Rican Island and turned into oil. Apart from the odd human consumption incident, this has been a smashing success.
The break up of the European Union was announced in 2014, as of December 2111, the EU parliament still hasn't got a working plan on how to facilitate the break up.
First contact was made in 2076. A ship landed in southern Fiji, initially hostile the insectoid aliens were pacified by giving them candy. in 2078 the KzsSSNRRG declared war on Earth to secure candy supplies. The Department of Homeworld Security was formed although quickly disbanded after they discovered the KzsSSNRRG's exoskeleton deflected millimetre wave scanners and no one wanted to give them an enhanced pat down. The war raged on in the stars for years with the Earth Defence Forces slowly falling back until we were able to clone Casper Van Diem.
Flying cars are still 20 years away.
Wikipedism is now bigger then Islam and Christianity combined. Jimmy Wales was deified on his death bed and now millions of people now start their days by staring and offering a personal appeal Jimmy Wales.
The Apple-Google wars of 2018 were as short lived as they were fierce. Apple lost the conflict because they used shiny white armour that could be spotted a mile away and their guns could only fire one bullet before having to be reloaded.
Lord British took over the British isles in 2023. He implemented an experience point for all working residents of great Britain. One earned XP at whatever job they do. It's the only place on earth where a level 73 Tea Lady beats a Level 42 CEO.
Richard M Stallman was lost forever on 14 August 2041. His home was searched by police but all they found was an empty bottle of soap and a recently used razor.
Copyright is now life of the sun plus 10,000 years, but Bit Torrent still works.
If you would excuse me, I must return to my own time. Typing on keyboards is so quaint, in the future we just shout "Bingle, Porn" and it does everything automatically.
Farewell.