Speculative future society prediction thread

[The Mad Monk]

Ghost In The Shell is the future...in 100 years.

[Jon Miller]

The earth is a desolate wasteland, with not one human surviving.

JM

[Guynemer]

A massive colony ship is launched towards the nearest Earth-class planet, a habitable orb without any signs of techonologically advanced life which will be discovered in the next 10-20 years.

The cryogenicly frozen colonists are awoken upon arrival but beginning warring with each other, splitting into distinct idelogical factions. We must dissent!

[Sava]

Is Ted Williams' frozen head going to be among this group of popsicles?

[Guynemer]

No, but you can be certain that Richard Nixon's Head In A Jar will be elected President.

[Sava]

[SpencerH]

The world will sink further and further into stagnation as an ever increasing number of mentally questionable citizens exercise their "right" to vote for whomever offers them the most "stuff". This problem will be exacerbated by the genetic drift of the human population towards a lower IQ (caused by the lack of selective pressure) and the higher birth rate amongst the portion of the population with lower IQ's.

Eventually, our alien overlords will tire of the unending stupidity and they will eradicate humanity in favor of a superior species, the panda.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Gene-packing will be real, but expensive, so that only the wealthy will be able to tailor their offspring for maximum genetic advantage. At this point, the millennia-old lie -- that the rich are innately superior, both physically and mentally, to everyone else -- will no longer be a lie. Democracy will be come to be seen as a quaint idea who's day is over, remembered only in newly-emergent, carnivalesque traditions, like electing a particularly stupid and ugly person King of the Fourth of July.

Oh, and Jesus still won't have come back.

[monolith94]

As the social demands of the American public increase, along with the demand for lower taxes increasing, the American government will find itself increasingly taking out loans to cover the difference. Eventually, spending on interest will force precipitous cuts in government spending, and they will be cuts that people will find abhorrent.

College educations will become increasingly commoditized, and online education will get big, big big, resulting in lower academic standards and a deadening of the American intellect. The select few private institutions will linger on, of course.

As the population of the U.S. grows, energy demands will increase and increase. I forsee rolling blackouts.

[Kuciwalker]

[Alinestra Covelia]

10 years from now:

The marvels of medical science means that we will be able to see a person actually talk out of their arse - as opposed to Poly, where we are merely able to read about it postfacto.

[Jon Miller]

Isn't there a youtube video with someone doing the ABCs?

JM

[RGBVideo]

The world will sink further and further into stagnation as an ever increasing number of mentally questionable citizens exercise their "right" to vote for whomever offers them the most "stuff". This problem will be exacerbated by the genetic drift of the human population towards a lower IQ (caused by the lack of selective pressure) and the higher birth rate amongst the portion of the population with lower IQ's.

As the social demands of the American public increase, along with the demand for lower taxes increasing, the American government will find itself increasingly taking out loans to cover the difference. Eventually, spending on interest will force precipitous cuts in government spending, and they will be cuts that people will find abhorrent.

College educations will become increasingly commoditized, and online education will get big, big big, resulting in lower academic standards and a deadening of the American intellect. The select few private institutions will linger on, of course.

[Dinner]

We will all own several genetically engineered sub-human slaves.

Can I have one to do my laundry? The girlfriend has taken to ironing my jeans and I don't like it.

[ricketyclik]

We will all own several genetically engineered sub-human slaves.

We (at least our descendents) will be genetically engineered sub-human slaves.