1- public executions brought back as humorously predicted by the late George Carlin. People betting on what numbered basket a certain head might land. Hosted by Joe Rogan or Howie Mandel. “Ok Loquita will it be a negro or white head landing in basket #9? For 100,000!”
2-Internet becomes regulated by the government, after the stock market is crippled by off shore cyber attacks. The dollar nearly loses all of it’s value and the gov’t has no choice but to enforce new strict regulations. Fringe groups quickly form their own uncensored networks.
3- More humans regularly travel below the earth in tunnels that have existed for hundreds of years. A new caste system is created in America. Above and Underground Dweller societies. A new kind of “civil war” breaks out.
4- Clones began infiltrating society in the mid-90s, however it takes decades to realize it has been happening. Eventually tests are administered and society fragments accordingly. Some humans prefer living in Clone Communities or CC’s.
5- Clones become remote controlled by people living underground. In this way, other planets would first be inhabited by remote-controlled clones. (PKD “clans of the alphane moon”) Wars from 2015-2100 are essentially fought be remote controlled clones. It’s all about how you build your clones; durability and maliciousness in appearance and fighting techniques. Botbizness replaces Boeing. Starts with mechanical spy birds that are already being commissioned by the Air Force. (as seen on wired.com)
6- Sperm and Egg donating becomes a very competitive industry. Children are raised in ultra proper ways to be able to sell their eggs and sperm to the highest bidder. Parents begin having more children for this huge payoff, when said children become 18. Since Social security and federal retirement pensions fade, this thinking becomes more mainstream for aging adults as a source of retirement funds.
7- A website is created that graphically displays all that you’ve ever eaten. Each time you eat something, you just wave your “food chip” finger over the item. This “food chip” would be implanted on your index finger at birth. This will be the new diet craze, as humans become utterly obsessed with each singular ingredient they ingest as it shows up on their charts. Chart parties are organized where couples compare their diets.
8- An A-list celebrity Free Haven Zone will be created which will eliminate the majority of the paporazzi. This piece of land will be secured by the U.S. gov’t. This will be the most coveted military post. Guards will get signatures that they will then sell to the adoring masses upon the end of their enlistment. This free haven zone will be so crucial as our economy increasingly depends on the well-being of our great movie stars!
9- Human population problems will reverse. The world will be in need of more people to colonize other planets, as earth begins to die off. If a child or young adult kills themselves, the parents will be forced to recreate on the spot. Or else they will be imprisoned.
10- Masturbation competitions will replace Nathan’s Hot Dog Competition on Coney Island.
11- Rich men begin cloning their penis’ in their mid-20s when they are most thick, virile, and strong in that area. This way they will always have a drawer full of supple penis’ to turn to in old age. A penis cache. Viagra is replaced and these cloning firms are the new buzz.
“Hey Doc, I need a thursday appt. for a new one…
a few premature wrinkles are starting to appear.”
“Sure thing JW, thursday I’m free.”
12- Fruit and Vegetables will be discovered to be the reason for people living under 85. Secret foods will be re-introduced, allowing man to live 500 plus years as last seen in biblical times.
13- A new government job is created. OS or operation scan. These gov’t employees go to high schools, colleges, and work places – discretely scanning brains. These scanners could be transparent, placed in cell phones. This would allow the gov’t to identify threat candidates or TC’s. A Brain Chemistry Database is created and these “minority report” person’s are actively tracked. (Also the ability to scan through house walls is allowed during the night)
14 – Sex education classes in grade school will involve “actors” to come in and perform the proper techniques surrounding sexual intercourse. This is a whole new industry and schools are actually set up which teach these “actors” the best way to perform sex in front of a class of children. This will happen some time around 2030. PTA will be equally divided on the subject. After approx. 2 years of in-fighting, (the fundamentalist mentality doesn’t get weeded out of evolution so easily you know) classes are approved and it’s a great success. The taboo of sex starts to diminish and children only view it as a necessary physical action to procreate. With new STDs on the market, “hooking up” is viewed as extremely short-sighted and disastrous by many. Plus as we start to colonize other planets, our minds will have very little time for mere physical ideas.
15 – A virus is released which shrinks life expectancies for some, but multiplies the general age of mentally deficient people. The planet ends up with too many retards living into their 200s. Military Special Ops. are trained to go around tranquilizing said retards in order to understand their new, highly advanced genetic make-up. Or on the flipside of this virus not hitting, the retard gene is identified and students in college study videos of long past people that suffered from down syndrome – as they become extinct.
16 – Meat eaters are eventually viewed in the way smokers are currently. Meat eating patrons at restaurants are asked to take their food outside to the designated “meat huts”. Meat eating thus becomes so frowned upon society that vegetarianism is all the buzz. The mob mentality never fails. Anarchy communes are quickly set up where people indulge in eating eat all weekend. These are occasionally broken up by vegetarian minded cops. But similar to drugs, the meat is sold on the black market.
17- People start to randomly teleport to earth from future planets. You’ll be at a coffee shop and all of a sudden an Einsteinian figure will just “appear” in a chair looking extremely shocked. A crowd will gather questioning him in horror. Then he will come to his senses, scream, and then “port” back. Seems his coordinates didn’t involve having others around. The tech. is new in 2045.
18 – Pacman will reappear in your dreams, until your dying days. People having dreams of pacman will view this as a sign that they are about to get chomped. Although many take steps to avoid this during their day, eventually they are hunted down by pacman clones and they dissapear forever.
19 – Virtual reality will almost certainly change the paradigm of work in the later part of the 21st century. People will be hooked into these systems, much like in the “Matrix” movies. This USB port hookup will eliminate many industry’s currently known to man. Physical bodies will be kept alive by feeding tubes while users access other worlds, alternate dimensions of this earth, and start to wander further out into the galaxy. Schooling will still be important, but it will be done in a virtual setting. Exercise will be paramount as the heart will not change. The Wii is currently conditioning for this kind of technological workout. Our attention spans are of course shrinking, so something like the Wii is perfectly suited to keeping us in some kind of physical shape. The world will begin to shrink, becoming more one worldy in it’s dimensions. As more people hook into this virtual reality, there will be less need for actual physical land (the current mortgage crisis is the beginning of the deemphasize of owning physical land, as virtual land becomes ever more important…think 2nd life and it’s many implications…the land is not affected by actual physical climate.) So this virtual change is coming soon. Be ready. Plugging in no longer an option, a necessity.
20 – At 18 years of age you will be assessed by a board of health. They will come to the conclusion concerning your reproductive future. If your high school record is clean, fairly bright, in shape, and have a good sense of humor – you are cleared and a tag is placed on your license “Licensed to Mate”. Or if the opposite is true, “Unlicensed to Mate”.
This will create a whole other form of politics. The politics of Eugenics, Selective Breeding, what have you. Just who will run this board? Will the government as we know it now still even be calling the shots? Too many questions in 2009. But with overpopulation becoming such a hot topic, how could this kind of procedure NOT be implemented. The only alternative is that we get smart with NASA, by abolishing it and letting private interests do all they can to make safe spacecraft to inhabit other planets. Of course first, we need to prove that there in fact ARE other inhabitable planets.
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21 – One day we’ll each clone the opposite sex of ourselves to marry. Neo-Narcissism anybody?
22 – The invention of the Microwave and use throughout the 20th century into the 21st will be the real reason behind most cancers. (especially colon and breast cancer)
23- Hardened pessimists (not cynics) beyond the age of 35, will be sought after by a government agency and castrated.
24- Musicians will earn “Life Credits” each time a listener is emotionally moved. This will be done through elaborate sensors that children will have implanted into to through brains upon being born. The government will be able to track these sensors and whenever a song registers as pleasurable, or beneficial to their own life, the said musician will receive X amount of “Life Credits.” Life Credits will eventually replace paper money. A system based on giving/receiving beneficial emotions will replace the exchange of refined raw materials or any other industrial byproduct.
25 – Photoshopped Real Life Babies. All the rage in 2024. Creativity will know no bounds! Or better yet, babies in the womb will consult with doctors/parents of how they want to be formed, what career they want, and their overall personality. This will be facilitated by a product from Apple. This will be similar to the depictions of eugenics in “Brave New World” however as individuals approach their last earth lives (reincarnation) they will have a very good idea of how they will want to spend their next life, before actually being born. Technology will allow doctors the ability to tweak DNA. The parents will be billed.
26 – Sarah Palin will eventually just conk out while on Fox. Anchors will be quite confused and go to commercial break. Later that day at a nearby hospital, the doctors monitoring Ms. Palin will discover a whole electrical working mechanism lodged in her back. The grim realization, that the “real” Ms. Palin was sabotaged 20 years ago by a draconian alien race will be abundantly clear. Many believers in Sarah, will immediately faint upon hearing this and a sense of panic will spread over the fly-over states of Amerika.
27 – Coast to Coast AM will replace CNN as the leader in cable news, as Aliens become a mainstay to the earth. Coast has been a leader in this field for many years and have up to this point been regarded as nothing more than 3rd shift paranoia fodder. George Noory will pass away after a few years of broadcasting this new cable show and and yet unknown anchor will take over. Possibly Art Bell’s daughter or just a cyborg?
28 – Movies will be created with real actors, real script, and effects. However when viewing the movie, viewers will have the ability to project what face they want to see on what body. This will be quite the virtual experiment. As a group of friends would be able to plan on who was who, before entering the theater. This will be the new wave of entertainment, further personalizing the movie going experiment. James Cameron’s “avatar” will seem like Super Mario Bros. to all players of Halo or WOW.
29 – Babies will one day have the choice of living their life in reverse if they so choose. Babies will also be unnamed until they reach the age of 4, when they will choose their own name. This will affect personal identities at first, but over time this will just be the Norm.
30 – Presidents will be replaced with “presidents of the week”. This will be a contest where anyone over 21 can pay 40,000 dollars to enter. If chosen, they will be able to run the whole show for exactly 1 week. Side bets will also be made, predicting the amount of disaster a candidate will bring forth.
