In 20 years' time.....

[steve w]

It's a friend's birthday today (happy birthday, hon!) so I got to thinking about time, etc.

What are your predictions for 15th November 2024?

Some of mine -

1 I'll still have not less than one zit, and not more than five, a tradition I've upheld since I was 12

2 I still won't be a published author

3 The world's climate will be cooling down

4 The biggest film star in the world will be a computer-generated image and not a person

5 We'll have worked out desalination and there'll be food a-plenty

6 Arabs and Israelis will still be killing each other

7 Seinfeld will still be the funniest thing ever created


What would yours be?

 

[SnoopDog]

It's a friend's birthday today (happy birthday, hon!) so I got to thinking about time, etc.

What are your predictions for 15th November 2024?

4 The biggest film star in the world will be a computer-generated image and not a person


What would yours be?

That will never happen, mark my words.

Snoopy

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Hmmm.

1. I'll be in a padded room somewhere living on thorazine and Zoloft.

2. I will still be wanting to go diving

3. Israel will be living behind their security fence.

4. Oggs will be retiring from his leatest career

5. Castro will still be dictator of Cuba.

6. At least some of the Ah regulars will be published.

7. I won't be one of them.

8. Social Security will still be in "dire trouble"

9. England will still have lousey weather.

10. o.J. will still be looking for the real killer, coming to a country club near you.

 

[TheEarl]

I'll be 40.

The Earl

























Okay, some real predictions:

Smoking will be illegal
The Aids vaccine will be available to Western people, but Africans will struggle to afford it. Meanwhile a new uncurable epidemic is rising...
The European Union will have collapsed in chaos, after attempts at full-integration fail. Britain will have stayed well out of it and will watch as the un-democratic bureaucracy disappears up its own arse. The incompatabilities of law, language and culture prove insurmountable, and the collapse is aided by the inefficient government of unelected officials, effectively leading to a brief benevolent (yet incompetent) dictatorship. Rising from the ashes, Germany, France and Italy start discussions on creating a Western European state of their own.
There will have been at least one terrorist assassination attempt on a member of the British Royal Family.

The Earl

 

[cloudy]

Hmmm.

6. At least some of the Ah regulars will be published.

7. I won't be one of them.

I beg to differ - I think you will be one of the fortunate few.

10. o.J. will still be looking for the real killer, coming to a country club near you.

LMAO!!!

1. Not sure I will still be here, but we shall see....If I am, I will be surrounded by grandchildren, and I won't be living in Alabama, that's for damn sure.

2. The form of government in this country will have changed drastically, brought about by the polarization we have seen recently. Maybe even a split along the lines of the Mason-Dixon line.

3. If (2) doesn't happen, an even wider gulf between the haves, and the have-nots.

4. The Rolling Stones will still be touring, and Mick Jagger will be even uglier.

5. The biggest box-office smash will be Shrek 32.

6. Transporters a la Star Trek will be commonplace. No more 11 hour flights from the US to Europe.

 

[steve w]

Snoop,

I beg to differ.

Computer game sales almost outrank film sales as it is. How big was Lara Croft in "her" heyday?

The biggest-grossing films these days come from Pixar et al. Who's to say Shrek isn't a big film star? As computer technology moves on, they'll be able to have a recognisable figure even though "he" "plays" different characters.

Finally, sci-fi writer William Gibson has been spot-on with most of his predictions in the past 20 years. He predicted such a film star in his book "Idoru".

 

[lewdandlicentious]

Hmmmm, now this thread interests me.

I'll be back after some thought!!!

 

[cheerful_deviant]

20 years from now...

1. Michael Jackson will have completed his transformation into a 12year old boy.

2. Cher will look even less life like than she does now.

3. There will only be two companys left in the world, Toyota-Pfizer-Halliburton, Inc. and McMicrosoft.

4. The Olsen Twins will be the first CoPresidents of the USA.

5. Friends still won't be funny but they will continue making reunion shows every coupple of years.

6. There will be yet another "Special Edition" of Star Wars released.

7. Washington DC will a slowly cooling puddle of radioactive glass that will be habitable again in about a thousand years.

7a. Nobody will miss it.

8. Gasoline will be $15.80 a gallon.

9. Americans will still buy SUV's large enough to live in even though they never carry passengers or go off road.

10. I still won't have completed my NaNo story for 2004.

 

[Quiet_Cool]

1. Starbucks will unleash its 12,758th new flavor. They'll call it "Coffee" and it'll taste like normal, regular, coffee. The world will be stunned.

2. Smoking cigarettes will be illegal in 59 states, but the responses to such changes will be mild with the recent legalization of Marijuana in all 69 states. Beer nuts will be illegal in bars in California.

3. Getting older, Will Smith signs a deal with Time-Warner to play Don King in the upcoming film biography.

4. President Brittney Spears explains to the public that she did not flip-flop on any of the topics and yes, she is still a virgin. Her husband and all three of thier children back her unanimously.

5. Madonna is still a slut. An old slut, but still a slut.

6. For the 22nd year running, I've failed to complete the NaNoWriMo competition, this year coming even closer, with 19,542 words...

 

[LadyJeanne]

1. Viagra sales will reach an all time high, outstripping all other medications combined.

2. Governors Barbara and Jenna Bush will get into a catfight about which of them should run for President first.

3. The 25th season of Survivor will be filmed in Iraq.

4. Literotica will reach its 1 billionth post - a newbie asking if penis size matters.

 

[Guest]

Hmmmm, now this thread interests me.

I'll be back after some thought!!!

After some thought? Is that what you're calling it now???

This is a very interesting thread. Hmmm, here's some from me...

1. It's quite possible that I'll be a Grandmother.

2. The Queen will still be on the throne, and Charlie will have gone insane waiting.

3. We'll all be using jet packs to get around.

4. There will still be no cure for the common cold.

5. Avatars on massage boards will be of moving images of ourselves, transmitted from our mobile phones.

6. The polar ice cap will have melted sufficiently to flood London's streets. The rats will have their day.

7. Lew will be my bitch.

Lou

 

[cheerful_deviant]

7. Lew will be my bitch.

Damn, I thought I was gonna be your bitch.

 

[rgraham666]

1. The United States will have gone the way of Yugoslavia. There will be 5 alleged nations; The Northeast, The South, Texas, The Midwest, and Greater California. Actually, it's just a huge collection of warlords whose reach extends as far as their thugs can drive in a day. Hawaii and Alaska are independent.

2. Canada has vanished, because our economy is too symbiotic with the U.S. to survive the U.S. demise.

3. Europe is doing OK because they've gotten over the habit of fighting and are at least trying to balance out the various forces in their geographical area.

4. Russia will have the Czars back. They can't really cotton to this democracy shit.

5. China will have gone extremely Confucian again. Mandarins who won't speak to barbarians and the whole nine yards.

6. I won't be around to see any of this.

 

[SnoopDog]

Snoop,

I beg to differ.

Computer game sales almost outrank film sales as it is. How big was Lara Croft in "her" heyday?

The biggest-grossing films these days come from Pixar et al. Who's to say Shrek isn't a big film star? As computer technology moves on, they'll be able to have a recognisable figure even though "he" "plays" different characters.

Finally, sci-fi writer William Gibson has been spot-on with most of his predictions in the past 20 years. He predicted such a film star in his book "Idoru".

I don't agree. Of course there is a huge hype about the animated figures and movies but getting an oscar-worthy performance for a main actor in a critically acclaimed drama for instance still takes a hell of a good actor and a good director to get the performance in a huge ammount of takes.

A programmer in front of a pc mitating an actor is not enough and it takes an awful lot of time to do yet another take with a little more of this and a little less of that. 8If you know what I mean)

Snoopy

 

[oggbashan]

4. Oggs will be retiring from his latest career

I wouldn't be surprised. My father finally got his university degree at age 80. He declined to continue for his Masters because of pressure of work. He was still lecturing at age 89.

I spoke to my elder brother tonight. He has just retired from most of his posts as Chairman of this, President of that, etc. He is still on 14 committees (less than me!) but he is 8 years old than me. He is now selling his works of art at a profit. Sketches by him used to sell at £15-20 each. The going rate now is £150-£250.

My cousin by marriage is the same age as me. He has just taken up a demanding role in local government on top of the day job. We're all mad and the family records show that we have been doing that sort of voluntary work since the 14th century. Tradition has it that we were doing it in 54BC and dying in harness.

Og

Edited for PS: Julius Caesar brought an abrupt end to my remote ancestor's voluntary work. Ancestor was a freedom fighter (Terrorist according to J.Caesar) who gave Caesar's legions a bloody nose.

 

[pop_54]

It's a friend's birthday today (happy birthday, hon!) so I got to thinking about time, etc.

What are your predictions for 15th November 2024?

Some of mine -

1 I'll still have not less than one zit, and not more than five, a tradition I've upheld since I was 12

2 I still won't be a published author

3 The world's climate will be cooling down

4 The biggest film star in the world will be a computer-generated image and not a person

5 We'll have worked out desalination and there'll be food a-plenty

6 Arabs and Israelis will still be killing each other

7 Seinfeld will still be the funniest thing ever created


What would yours be?

I'll be 76, and I'll thank you not to start this kind of thread and remind me

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

[1]

Jeb Bush competes against George W. Bush as the Democratic Candidate for Protectorate of The Confederated Thraldom of Jesusland.


[2]

The most-watched program on Microsoft-Disney American Cable Network is “Who Wants To Get Their Paycheck?” The games show where the 97% of the country’s population, employed by Haliburton, compete to insure that their subsidiary will not renege on paying their monthly payroll.


[3]

The most influential program is Redemption a weekly auction on Ebay of all the useable organs to be harvested from that week’s mass execution of criminals who have paid the ultimate price for their crimes of using prohibited drugs, such as heroine, crack cocaine, marijuana, Viagra, or smuggled Canadian imports.


[4]

Except for registered Republican Politicians, Ministers of accredited Religions, and Saudi businessman – who are exempted of all charges – refined automotive grade gasoline is $23.50 in Euro Dollars, which at present are worth 4.7998 American Dollars each.


[5]

The highest-grossing film is Mel Gibson’s “The Woman at the Well” starring Rush Limbaugh as the Christ and Bill O’Reilly as Mary Magdalen. (Cinema has reverted to Shakespearian gender standards)

In this Bible-based epic, a young, single mother (Tucker Carlson) explains that there is a more efficient method of drawing water from the well, so that the whole town may drink, and The Christ (Limbaugh) condemns and immediately carries out the sentence of having the woman stoned, tearing up the walls of the new public school for ammunition.


[6]

A group of disreputable scientists are imprisoned for spreading the blasphemy that the reason why Florida is at present a mean average of 16.75 inches underwater is the result of global warming. A spokesman from the Cheney Commission, set up in 2004, delivers a statement expressing that the commission is still investigating these unsubstantiated claims of this discredited theory, but to date has found little documentable evidence to the theory’s validity.

At the same time, Bob Jones III, of Bob Jones University is awarded the Nobler Prize, from the American Heritage Religious Studies Foundation, for their theological treatise proving that the recent Floridian submersion is a judgement of God, because of its persistent proximity to the Godless communism of Fidel’s Cuba.


[7]

A group of prisoners calling themselves the Literotian Libertine Full Frontal escape from the Guantanamo Base Maximum Security Recreational Facility and make their way via the inter-coastal waterway system to Washington, DC. There they conduct a demonstration, carrying signs and chanting: “Neocons are MotherFuckers!” The Patriot Bill is for Pussies! “The Family That Preys Together Wears Recessive Genes!”

In the intervening twenty-two years since they were imprisoned, literacy has been de-emphasized in American schools. No one who graduated is able to read their signs. Nor has the Obscenity Pogrom of ‘07 left anyone free who could interpret the meaning of their chants. As a result, the demonstration is unsuccessful. The Literotican’s turn themselves in, but since the one result of their demonstration was to prove that they are completely ineffective, the Literoticans are immediately pardoned.

Without money, jobs, or political influence, the Literotican movement dies a quick death, both figuratively and actually, from eating mercury-contaminated fish caught in the Potomac River.

 

[gauchecritic]

1. Hari Seldon is born.

2. Rupert Murdoch and his husband Bill Gates are President and first gentleman of the US. (New York)

3. Gollum (the animation) receives a lifetime achievement Oscar after starring in the remake of "The Shootist". No one can understand why he doesn't turn up to collect it.

4. Helen Mirren and the actress turned MP turned actress Glenda Jackson win a BAFTA award for the oldest women to get their tits out in a major motion picture. The remake of Spice Girls The Movie.

5. In order to win new audiences Laurel and Manu begin rejecting stories which contain words with more than two syllables.

6. Sudhansu Ghandi, Prime Minister of India/New Europe is assassinated and succeeded via instant electronic election by his daughter within 12 hours.

 

[yui]

1. Hari Seldon is born.

Raven?

Or have I missed something? That happens sometimes...

 

[gauchecritic]

Raven?

Or have I missed something? That happens sometimes...

It's been a long time, I forget.

This might help.

Edited to add; Scroll down a bit. Part 1 of 3

 

[yui]

It's been a long time, I forget.

This might help.

Edited to add; Scroll down a bit. Part 1 of 3

Oh, thanks…that vagued things up a bit for me initially, but now I see. Yes, part one of three. Asimov. The connection. Cool beans.

Luck to you,

Yui

 

[steve w]

Some more -

1 It will be illegal in the Uk for anyone to come first at anything, since this implies someone else does not. We all have to come first equal.

2 Tony Blair and Peter Mandelson get married.

3 Denzel Washington is US president

4 Jeans are still the world's favourite clothing

5 We've given up on space entirely, except to jettison all our crap into, so that we don't need landfills any more

6 It will still take longer getting to the airport/going through security than it will for the actual flight

7 Not only will smoking be illegal, but so will coffee. Starbucks will long since have diversified into sidelines like providing pure oxygen, botox, etc.

8 There will be no mobile telephones. We'll all have an implant in our ears that allow us to take calls

 

[rgraham666]

I hope they make smoking illegal. I'm setting up my suppliers and distribution network even as we speak. I'm gonna be richer that Bill Gates. Or dead. When they say illegal drugs is a cutthroat business, they're not kidding.

As far as AI goes, I think we're much more likely to create berserkers than idorus.

And I am not, repeat, not, putting any electronics inside me unless required to keep me alive. Too many funny things can be done with electronics. I want to be able to turn them off if I want.

 

[Bridget69]

-Public nudity will be legal.
-People will be able to surf the web with a brain implanted chip.
-Britney Spears will be in her tenth marriage and still making slutty CD's.
-George W. Bush will still be president.
-Michael Moore will still be making movies about George W. Bush.
-I'm still going to be single.

 

[gauchecritic]

-I'm still going to be single.

You say that like it's a bad thing.