World in 2056, junior version

gsp_silicon_valley
Thu, 10 Aug 2006 05:08:39 +0000

The U.S. will no longer be the predominate force in the world. We will lose our ability to “buy off” our enemies financially like we currently do.

At least one devastating earthquake in California will wipe out 20%-33% of the state’s population.

At least 1/2 of the U.S. population will be homeless, on welfare or in prison, because there just won’t be enough jobs to sustain the ever-growing immigrant population or enough qualified U.S. citizens to fill U.S. jobs.

There will be an unsuccessful attempted military overthrow of the U.S. government.

There will be some kind of race war / civil unrest.

The U.S. is overdue for a major political assassination!

Still no cure for AIDS, cancer or diabetes.

A new medical disaster, even more devastating than AIDS, will hit the world, fueled by germ warfare from Asia and the Middle East.

The public education system in the U.S. will continue to erode.

Yahoo! will be acquired by Google, which will be acquired by MySpace, which will be acquired by Facebook, which will be illegally acquired by religious right and CIA operatives, just so they can data warehouse everyone who is online.

People on CC will still ask if they should retake the SAT after missing a perfect score by one point!

Celebrian25 will have 10 million+ posts on CC.

Text posting on CC will be replaced with real-time audio/video conversations. Our actual faces will be replaced with animated caricatures.

There will be automatic language translation on CC as well as with all telecommunications, i.e. someone in Japan will speak in Japanese and I will hear it automatically in English.