Remember how the original predictions for life 100 years from now were made in 1900 by the greatest scientific minds of the time? Yeah, this time, the predictions are made by idiots submitting stuff over the internet.

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RexTalionis: Remember how the original predictions for life 100 years from now were made in 1900 by the greatest scientific minds of the time? Yeah, this time, the predictions are made by idiots submitting stuff over the internet.

And nearly half of them came from three users.

RexTalionis: Remember how the original predictions for life 100 years from now were made in 1900 by the greatest scientific minds of the time? Yeah, this time, the predictions are made by idiots submitting stuff over the internet.

Their predictions didn't take the republican party into account.

I foresee great computers filling hallowed halls.

I will predict that there are some people too lazy to click on the link.

Number 12. Just do they mean break up or break off?

1. Oceans will be extensively farmed and not just for fish (Jim 300)
2. We will have the ability to communicate through thought transmission (Dev 2)
3. Thanks to DNA and robotic engineering, we will have created incredibly intelligent humans who are immortal (game_over)
4. We will be able to control the weather (mariebee_)
5. Antarctica will be "open for business" (Dev 2)
6. One single worldwide currency (from Kennys_Heroes)
7. We will all be wired to computers to make our brains work faster (Dev 2)
Big Morongo Wildlife Preserve (2007) Will deserts become tropical forests?
8. Nanorobots will flow around our body fixing cells, and will be able to record our memories (Alister Brown)
9. We will have sussed nuclear fusion (Kennys_Heroes)
10. There will only be three languages in the world - English, Spanish and Mandarin (Bill Walker)
11. Eighty per cent of the world will have gay marriage (Paul)
12. California will lead the break-up of the US (Dev 2)
13. Space elevators will make space travel cheap and easy (Ahdok)
14. Women will be routinely impregnated by artificial insemination rather than by a man (krozier 93)
15. There will be museums for almost every aspect of nature, as so much of the world's natural habitat will have been destroyed (LowMaintenanceLifestyles)
16. Deserts will become tropical forests (jim300)
17. Marriage will be replaced by an annual contract (holierthanthou)
18. Sovereign nation states will cease to exist and there will be one world government (krozier93)
19. War by the West will be fought totally be remote control (LowMaintenanceLifestyles)
20. Britain will have had a revolution (holierthanthou)

My brain hurts.

Voiceofreason01: RexTalionis: Remember how the original predictions for life 100 years from now were made in 1900 by the greatest scientific minds of the time? Yeah, this time, the predictions are made by idiots submitting stuff over the internet.

to be fair the "greatest scientific minds"(Popular science editorial board) were just as wrong as the author of this article is likely to be

Futurists are notoriously unreliable prophets. However, at the very least, they base their predictions on some germ of plausible science or research rather than wild speculation based on some cool idea somebody saw in a movie.

miss diminutive: 3. Thanks to DNA and robotic engineering, we will have created incredibly intelligent humans who are immortal (game_over)

Those same robots better make us infertile or things are going to get crowded very quickly.

I predict that the future super-intelligent and immortal humans will also be 1 centimeter tall and we will be ruled by the Queen of the Cockroach people.

My prediction is this:
Not one of you reading this will be around to see if they come true.
99.999 % certain of that.

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There are a few dozen toddlers alive today who will still be around to celebrate 2112. Let's find out who they are and buy them beers.