<p>Ivy tuition 3.2 million a year.</p>
<p>Cars still running on gas, but created from shale oil.</p>
<p>16th consectutive President named Bush or Clinton.</p>
<p>I hate to see this thread die. Some are real halarious. Let’s keep it going.</p>
<p>Cars will run on hydrogen fuel cell. China will rule the world…</p>
<p>The Detroit Lions will not have made it to the Super Bowl, despite the NFL expanding to over 100 teams worldwide.</p>
<p>The US News college ranking for 2056 will show that the top ten schools are the same top ten schools that were listed in 2006. (However,
there will be a six way tie for first place.) And the critics will still be bashing the rankings if their preferred school slips in the rankings. :)</p>
<p>We’ll have colonized the moon, be eating Moon Cheese, and be watching ads that claim that “happy cows come from the moon”</p>
<p>Lacking anything like a sense of the sacred–and going the way of cathedrals and churches in the late 20th century–public libraries will cease to exist as anything other than museums to be gawked at by those who delight in nostalgia…that is, by “tourists” and “progressives” in general [one in the same, says me]…in the 21st century–while no one notices. Count on it.</p>
<p>I do, however, agree with Aries that there will be a demand side that wishes to hold the weight, volume and history of a book-in-hand; but that, the supply-side will do its damnedest to reshape our popular expectations.</p>
<p>Tourists are not as dumb as progressives.</p>
<p>I hope most of these are jokes. The future will be pretty similar to life now.</p>
<p>I’m not joking…I’d bet the farm on it.
It’s already happening.</p>
<p>ILGB,
Good point; tourists are less likely to leave well-intentioned graffiti behind.</p>
<p>The Cubs will go into their 148th year of a losing streak. ;)</p>
<p>Gee, Fountainsiren and Iloveagoodbrew - do you stay up nights thinking up those terrible witty putdowns of progressives?
It’s truly a treat to observe superior people use such brilliant wit and wisdom to express their disdain for lesser beings.</p>
<p>Agree with FS that people will do anything to convince us that we want something different from what we actually do want.</p>
<p>(Note: Detroit tried this over the past 10 years, in a desire to sell higher-margin SUVs to Americans. It worked, right up until the past few years. Now, they are bawling into their beers as Toyota eclipses them in the market with the Prius. College students, hopefully, will always want their own, non-digitized books so they can highlight them - for the industrious kids - or use them as doorstops.)</p>
<p>Would be interesting to see if the digitization of literature has the obvious result: no one buys any literature anymore, because they just have their friends e-mail them copies. Barring a radical change in our copyright laws, it won’t take long for publishers (and authors) to forbid the digitization of their books, once best-sellers sell 100,000 copies that are given to three million people.</p>
<p>Coca-Cola in America will cost ten rubles</p>
<p>Make that ten yuan.</p>
<p>Oh, and the Big Dig – still being dug.</p>
<p>How digitizing books have anything to do with the internet and viruses?</p>