Future predictions:
- Hot water will be hot when turned on.
- Cars will hover or fly and be covered with rubber, like bumper cars.
- Environmentally-safe fuel.
- Microwaves will be replaced by better models.
- Cell phones will make use of holographs when speakerphone has been selected.
Otherwise they will output the voice directly into your mind. - All modern televisions will be huge and paper flat.
- Everything will be recycled. Even waste.
Probably as fertilizer. - A cure for the common cold and all types of cancer.
- The year 2000 will be known as the year “2k.” 2010 will be called “2k10.”
- Internal ID tagging for each person. The cost of crime will go down, but black market sales in tags will increase.
- Trains will be covered by tunnels and travel at least x3 travel faster than they did in the early 2000s.
- Unhealthy ingredients (like high fructose corn syrup) will be tweaked into something healthier or otherwise eliminated.
- A planet in our solar system will either be transformed into a green paradise,
or a planet outside of the solar system (hospitable to humans) will be discovered. The planet will be used as a vacation resort for only the wealthiest who can afford it. - A new form of disease will arise, either naturally, by accident, or through rebel actions.
The rich and powerful will pay or bribe their way to the second planet.
70% of the Earth’s population will die, due to sickness. The economy will fail.
Transport ships will cease being offered, due to the risk of disease. - War will ensue on planet Earth for the remaining resources. The planet will become a barren wasteland. Survivors will feed on what or who they can, and defend themselves with weapons (that replaced guns in the past) with limited ammunition before succumbing to starvation or being killed for their limited food supply.
- The other planet will become labeled New Earth in tribute.
- After a century it will be discovered that the chemicals that make up the food on New Earth have made a good deal of people infertile. Cloning will be heavily researched, and for centuries to come, people will clone themselves when they wish to have children.
- Old Earth will be destroyed by a monstrous sun flare.
- Centuries later humans will discover that their DNA’s integrity has begun to break down. There will be no new material to clone from. Experimentation with animals will fail.
- The human race eventually dies out.