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Permalink Reply by Dallas the Phallus on December 17, 2010 at 11:44am

My Predictions

 

Technology is one of the driving forces of socio-economic change, and technological innovation increases exponentially. For that reason, everything will be "smart" and quantifiable and catalogable. We'll be able to monitor our home, our cars, our family, and basically everything remotely. We will be able to know everything about anything we choose. For example, parents will be emailed automatically if their child starts to run a fever at school.

 

Many diseases will be cured, including many neurological and genetic diseases.

 

Surgery will become safer and less invasive, or even less necessary.

 

People will be genetically designing their children.

 

Because it is the desire of the individual to always set himself above others through ownership and artifice, we will find new ways to widen the gap betweeen the haves and have-nots. Social inequality will remain and likely get worse (especially because of technology).

 

Vacationing at resorts that orbits the earth will become commonplace for the very wealthy.

 

Our food will get less natural and be more industrialized and processed. Soylent Green anyone?

 

We will no longer have carbon-based energy sources, but industry will still control the power. In other words, few people will be off-grid or independently sustainable.

 

We will no longer have shared public resources, such as public water. Everything will be owned by corporations (thanks conservatives).

 

We will have only a fraction of the biodiversity we have today.

 

Chinese will replace English as the lingua franca.

 

Russia will be broken up into smaller countries.