^wtf. Things will be changed a lot. Watch any show from 15 years ago, and see how different it is. The fact that we will have quantum computers and carbon nanotubes alone means that there will be huge differences.

4/24/2006 9:08:02 AM

wow im the only one who has mentioned world war 3

4/24/2006 10:17:07 AM

Guys, it's only 14 years away.

Some things, like computers, medicine, warfare, etc. will continue to change rapidly.

Others like cars, roads, houses, jobs, etc. will change little.

4/24/2006 10:30:12 AM

We begin drilling for oil with in the US (yukons). Since there is 3 times (?--don't remember exact estimates) more crude there than in the middle east. By then the tree huggers will be ok with it, as the demand for gas has driven the oil prices to record highs.

4/24/2006 11:07:57 AM

a libertarian president.




















ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah

4/24/2006 11:08:00 AM

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"Nuke?"

HAHAHAHAHA

nice

4/24/2006 11:08:13 AM

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"yeah, we're definitely going to see the "perfect" recreational drug that will be more popular than any drug before it."

Jet


[Edited on April 24, 2006 at 11:12 AM. Reason : ]

4/24/2006 11:11:11 AM

40% of our power production will be from our nuclear plants of which are mostly efficent and safe Gen 3 models!

4/24/2006 12:00:58 PM

man i hope this shows up

4/24/2006 12:12:36 PM

Mango ftw

"War... war never changes"

4/24/2006 12:36:48 PM

Holographic friends, family, movies, etcetera.

4/24/2006 12:40:08 PM

US and China on the path to World War 3 1/2

4/24/2006 12:45:40 PM

The ACC will have 24 teams. ECU will still not be one of them.

4/24/2006 12:57:17 PM

i'll be 38

4/24/2006 11:08:14 PM

I will be the world's oldest virgin.

4/24/2006 11:24:02 PM

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"41% of the united states is already used as farmland to feed the citizens living in the other 59%. "

Are you dumb dude? We haven't had the food to feed our own people in nearly a hundred years. And we aren't going to expand into farm land as urban space, you are missing the point completely.

4/24/2006 11:27:02 PM

4/24/2006 11:27:44 PM

The world will be facing the "Point of No Return" of global warming as CO2 levels in the atmosphere build and the polar ice caps melt.

4/24/2006 11:28:50 PM

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"we will all be using public transportation and have houses half as large."

so we'll all move to europe?

4/24/2006 11:32:47 PM

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" Are you dumb dude? We haven't had the food to feed our own people in nearly a hundred years. And we aren't going to expand into farm land as urban space, you are missing the point completely."

What are you talking about? We are the largest food producer in the world, and still have room to grow in the agriculture dept if we needed to. We feed far more than our own people, having probably either the most or the 2nd most (not sure about China) ariable land in the world, and a relatively low population density. Where do you think all of the food supplies in the world come from? If we couldn't feed ourselves, then how could India even survive? Who would be able to give them food?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_agriculture

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"Agriculture is a major industry in the United States and the country is a net exporter of food."

If anything, we will have a larger food supply, and other nations will depend on us even more for food.

4/24/2006 11:45:39 PM

we actually have a surplus of food, enough to feed everyone in the world


but not enough money to move it

4/24/2006 11:53:24 PM

We do import a lot of food as well though. More exotic stuff like fruits and cocoa beans.

In 2020? That's 14 years off. So when I was six there were people being grungy on MTV, beavis and butthead kicked ass I think, my computer sucked completely compared to what I'm using now, and we were entering a short-lived hippy-era that I'm going to assume was brought on by the clinton administration (I remember being brainwashed or green-washed a couple times in there). So 14 years from now I'll expect we'll be reverting into another 80's like state, recovering from another recession that costs the service sector jobs due to the increasing pressure from china and india, but the manufacturing sector will start to make a comeback with more high-technology applications being used, and with the yuan becoming worth more relative to a dollar (thus making chinese exports, even though they're dumping them on our markets, less appealling). Cars will start to hit our streets that are smarter and more efficient and safer than before, and there will probably be a wider use of diesels and hybrids, but nothing spectacular, they'll still cost enough that most people will pay the $5/gallon required to get around. There might be more of an urbanization movement with increased public transportation and nicer stacked residences near urban centers (and near public transportation), but this won't be like THE THING that everyone is doing.

Plus we'll all be wearing rings around our heads and waists to make ourselves look awesome and futuristic. They'll be nike/reebok/adidas/underarmor branded as well and the church of the white tennis shoe (founded in 2014) will have reached a membership level of 120 million.

[Edited on April 25, 2006 at 12:29 AM. Reason : Though we do import, I do understand that net we do export more.]

4/25/2006 12:28:57 AM

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"Are you dumb dude? We haven't had the food to feed our own people in nearly a hundred years. And we aren't going to expand into farm land as urban space, you are missing the point completely."

classic trolling.

4/25/2006 1:34:24 AM

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"Are you dumb dude? We haven't had the food to feed our own people in nearly a hundred years. And we aren't going to expand into farm land as urban space, you are missing the point completely."

you are a fucking moron.

4/25/2006 2:08:45 AM

i fail to believe that someone actually wrote that believing what they were typing. i mean seriously, you would have to be just guessing about the state of any given part of our world. and hide from information like it was the plauge.

4/25/2006 2:44:21 AM

In the year 2020...construction on the free expression tunnel will finally near completion.

4/25/2006 10:51:44 AM

^it is nearing completion. On the brickyard side, you can see the path it takes. It looks like they're cleaning up and adding the finishing touches.

4/25/2006 11:34:22 AM

^Yeah, but didn't you get the memo? This is just a practice run.

4/25/2006 12:31:55 PM

^theyre expanding it so dinosaurs can have handicapped access

4/25/2006 12:51:27 PM

planet ruled by talking apes

4/25/2006 1:11:05 PM

^That's what's going on with the tunnel after the dinosaurs. We getting all the apes in.

4/25/2006 1:13:30 PM

I'm going to get my brain installed into a robot Tiger.

4/25/2006 1:14:26 PM

Celibacy will become popular again, as half the population will have one STD or another.

4/25/2006 8:33:08 PM

Monorails. Magnetically levitated monorails.

4/25/2006 8:47:31 PM

Scientists will tell us that diet and exercise will make us thin.

4/25/2006 9:00:40 PM

^They'll subsequently discover a positive correlation between dieting/excercise and cancer
Then exercise will correlate, but dieting won't
Then dieting will correlate, but exercising won't
Then excercising will only if you do cardio, and the results on dieting will show no real correlation but will be avoided based on hearsay

4/25/2006 9:04:35 PM

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"I'm going to get my brain installed into a robot Tiger."

damn you, I was just scanning the thread to make a saelab joke myself.

4/25/2006 9:04:45 PM

We import nearly 100% of our coffee, cocoa and tea. Without that the whole country would fucking collapse.

Not to mention nearly 80% of our Fish and Shellfish.

And by all accounts, our food imports have risen dramatically over the past 7-10 years, food exports have been falling almost as rapidly. By most accounts we should be at a stasis point in another 3-5 years.

4/25/2006 9:54:44 PM

I can't believe you just said the country would collapse without coffee, tea, and cocoa. Even if we do import them what does that have to do with anything? We import a lot of stuff.

HEY, WE GET MOST OF OUR ITALIAN POTTERY FROM OTHER COUNTRIES!! OH NO WE ARE GONNA COLLAPSE!!!

let me fix this quote for you as well:

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"By most my own idiotic accounts we should be at a stasis point in another 3-5 years."

I repeat, we have enough food in this country to feed a billion people. we have 300 million.

4/25/2006 10:04:05 PM

stacked I-40 and beltline

4/26/2006 12:19:04 AM

is Jet from Fallout 2?

4/26/2006 12:23:28 AM

Google will become like Skynet. It will come online in 2012. By this point, we'll be well into the war and Sarah Connors will be dead.

4/26/2006 12:25:15 AM

there is more than one relevant sarah connor?

4/26/2006 12:30:11 AM

NC State's athletics will PWN UNC.

Gas will be $10 a gallon.

Computers will be $100 each.

WWIII will start because of Israel/Palistine or Pakistan/India.

The U.S. will have had a woman president. My vote is for Elizabeth Dole.

4/26/2006 1:34:56 AM

Quote :

"is Jet from Fallout 2?"

yes

only the greatest game in THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD

4/26/2006 1:54:09 AM