10 Year Prediction Thread

Bobby Swisha · 05-20-2014, 01:57 AM

ITT we make predictions for what the world will be like 10 years from now

then in 10 years we'll come back to this thread and see if we were right

(feel free to also make 5 year predictions, 20 year predictions, etc.)

Tony Clay · 04:37 AM

I predict in 10 years we will have movied away from discs of any kind. DVDs or Blurays or what have you.

Jesterfoot · 05-20-2014, 04:29 AM

Virtual reality will take over everything. Technology advances to fulfill the idea of complete "submersion."

3d space will take over the same way that the internet did.

Notch Johnson · 05-20-2014, 11:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Jesterfoot

Virtual reality will take over everything. Technology advances to fulfill the idea of complete "submersion."

3d space will take over the same way that the internet did.

this

Tony Clay's post is pretty funny. who the fuck still uses discs? it's 2014. in 2024 you'll have content uploaded directly into your ass.

Slime · 06-15-2014, 04:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Notch Johnson

this

Tony Clay's post is pretty funny. who the fuck still uses discs? it's 2014. in 2024 you'll have content uploaded directly into your ass.

i just bought Komplete 9 and the only way they sell it is on 12 DVDs. it took me hours to install and reminded me of installing Monkey Island from the like 9 floppies in 1993 or so.

Jesterfoot · 04:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jesterfoot

Virtual reality will take over everything. Technology advances to fulfill the idea of complete "submersion."

3d space will take over the same way that the internet did.

to add to this:
sexual frustration in nerds will be a thing of the past

and

human transdifferentiation

Bobby Swisha · 05-20-2014, 04:49 AM

I predict we'll have way less resources and we'll have lots of conflicts between different countries and everyone who posts here is dead except a few people.

Bjorny · 05-20-2014, 11:21 PM

I'll probably have kids in 10 years

Gorosaurus · 05-21-2014, 02:48 AM

In 10 years we look back and go "wow.. technology really kinda stopped. We were spoiled by the 90s and 2000s when everything would change every 10 years.

I am still typing on a keyboard and it's 2024. THAT'S JUST DUMB"

There will be a few new toys, TV will finally have moved to a la-carte channels, and clean water will continue to be a scare resource (though desalination plants will be embraced by most coastal communities, they won't have the capacity to meet demand for another 15 years).

America will have its second black president and a gay vice president.

Household 3d printers (like a new Apple product made for the creation of simple objects and 3d 'pictures') will be the hot, expensive Christmas item. They won't reach saturation for another 2 or 3 years, like the iPhone or iPad. It'll probably have a stupid name like iBlink. The mini version, 2 years later, is named the iOta.

Dental visits will still suck.

A remake of Raiders of the Lost Ark will be received with a so-so response. Harrison Ford will play the president of the university, or a librarian that shooshes Indy during an action scene that just finished in a library.

Stan Lee will die. Knowing the end was nigh, he records himself 'cameoing' as a minister for his own funeral, and this video is played to laughter and applause during the following year's Academy Awards show.

The biggest change will involve automatic driving cars (googlemobiles). The concept finally enters as an expected luxury for all new models (it's a 'mode' you can activate), and, as this becomes more and more commonplace, traffic jams and commuting time fall dramatically.

Plopilpy · 03-19-2022, 10:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gorosaurus

In 10 years we look back and go "wow.. technology really kinda stopped. We were spoiled by the 90s and 2000s when everything would change every 10 years.

I am still typing on a keyboard and it's 2024. THAT'S JUST DUMB"

There will be a few new toys, TV will finally have moved to a la-carte channels, and clean water will continue to be a scare resource

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gorosaurus

Household 3d printers (like a new Apple product made for the creation of simple objects and 3d 'pictures') will be the hot, expensive Christmas item. They won't reach saturation for another 2 or 3 years, like the iPhone or iPad.

Dental visits will still suck.

Stan Lee will die.

These things ^ are all correct, and it hasn't even been 10 years

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gorosaurus

The biggest change will involve automatic driving cars

Not quite correct yet but Tesla cars can auto-drive, so pretty much yes.

Dominator Dan · 05-21-2014, 09:50 AM

there'll probably be more stuff going on in regards to mars, maybe we'll have sent some people up there by 2024. it'll be pretty weird.

Broken Pencil · 05-21-2014, 10:42 AM

They will probably have invented a console dedicated to oculus rift, sony would officially cancel the playstation 5, myamoto would probably get cancer, and half life 3 woud be produced, but would turn out as a really bad, generic shooter.

Fist · 05-21-2014, 01:04 PM

i reserve this space to secretly edit ten years from now so it looks like i'm a good guesser.

Eukos · 05-21-2014, 03:58 PM

Old Rivers · 05-21-2014, 05:40 PM

1991? you aint that old, son

Eukos · 05-21-2014, 08:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Old Rivers

1991? you aint that old, son

Oh.

Plopilpy · 03-19-2022, 10:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Broken Pencil

sony would officially cancel the playstation 5

PaytonJerryM · 03-19-2022, 10:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Broken Pencil

They will probably have invented a console dedicated to oculus rift, sony would officially cancel the playstation 5, myamoto would probably get cancer, and half life 3 woud be produced, but would turn out as a really bad, generic shooter.

Half life 3 is canceled

PizzaLuigi · 03-19-2022, 10:39 PM

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Originally Posted by PaytonJerryM

Half life 3 is canceled

Half Life Alyx was Half Life 3

Happyjuice · 05-21-2014, 06:48 PM

Jesterfoot · 05-22-2014, 02:43 AM

Weed will be legal throughout the unites states along with many new weed-like drugs.

Unemployment will rise dramatically as many customer service jobs will be automated, and simple office jobs can be done with AI software. Government becomes more socialist as a result.

Word breaks out that there is a company building cars on a new form of clean energy but fades from the news after a series of assassinations. 10 month later gas companies disclose a patent to synthetic gasoline.

Broken Pencil · 06-13-2014, 10:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jesterfoot

Weed will be legal throughout the unites states along with many new weed-like drugs.

Unemployment will rise dramatically as many customer service jobs will be automated, and simple office jobs can be done with AI software. Government becomes more socialist as a result.

Word breaks out that there is a company building cars on a new form of clean energy but fades from the news after a series of assassinations. 10 month later gas companies disclose a patent to synthetic gasoline.

This will lead up to the events of system shock.

Fish Taco · 06-13-2014, 09:38 PM

Automatic cars, 3d printers as common desktop items, 3d printing pens are common, DIY culture is far more far spread, 3d printed organs extends life expectancy substantially, as was said further automation leading to rise in unemployment and more socialist government, legalised weed and prostitution, Alternate energy and fuel sources, fall of US as super power, rise of China then India, Cthulu rises.

Eukos · 06-13-2014, 09:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Bernatrick

Cthulu rises.

Lowgain · 06-13-2014, 09:52 PM

nobody will have any hair at all

05-20-2014, 01:57 AM	#1
Bobby Swisha Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 46,012	10 Year Prediction Thread ITT we make predictions for what the world will be like 10 years from now then in 10 years we'll come back to this thread and see if we were right (feel free to also make 5 year predictions, 20 year predictions, etc.)

05-20-2014, 03:15 AM	#2
Tony Clay Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 2,583	I predict in 10 years we will have movied away from discs of any kind. DVDs or Blurays or what have you.
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Bjorny Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Posts: 7,217	I'll probably have kids in 10 years
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05-20-2014, 04:29 AM	#3
Jesterfoot Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 7,470	Virtual reality will take over everything. Technology advances to fulfill the idea of complete "submersion." 3d space will take over the same way that the internet did.

05-20-2014, 04:49 AM	#7
Bobby Swisha Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 46,012	I predict we'll have way less resources and we'll have lots of conflicts between different countries and everyone who posts here is dead except a few people.

05-21-2014, 02:48 AM	#9
Gorosaurus Super Moderator Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 16,146	In 10 years we look back and go "wow.. technology really kinda stopped. We were spoiled by the 90s and 2000s when everything would change every 10 years. I am still typing on a keyboard and it's 2024. THAT'S JUST DUMB" There will be a few new toys, TV will finally have moved to a la-carte channels, and clean water will continue to be a scare resource (though desalination plants will be embraced by most coastal communities, they won't have the capacity to meet demand for another 15 years). America will have its second black president and a gay vice president. Household 3d printers (like a new Apple product made for the creation of simple objects and 3d 'pictures') will be the hot, expensive Christmas item. They won't reach saturation for another 2 or 3 years, like the iPhone or iPad. It'll probably have a stupid name like iBlink. The mini version, 2 years later, is named the iOta. Dental visits will still suck. A remake of Raiders of the Lost Ark will be received with a so-so response. Harrison Ford will play the president of the university, or a librarian that shooshes Indy during an action scene that just finished in a library. Stan Lee will die. Knowing the end was nigh, he records himself 'cameoing' as a minister for his own funeral, and this video is played to laughter and applause during the following year's Academy Awards show. The biggest change will involve automatic driving cars (googlemobiles). The concept finally enters as an expected luxury for all new models (it's a 'mode' you can activate), and, as this becomes more and more commonplace, traffic jams and commuting time fall dramatically.

05-21-2014, 09:50 AM	#11
Dominator Dan Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 11,564	there'll probably be more stuff going on in regards to mars, maybe we'll have sent some people up there by 2024. it'll be pretty weird.

05-21-2014, 10:42 AM	#12
Broken Pencil Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2013 Posts: 2,341	They will probably have invented a console dedicated to oculus rift, sony would officially cancel the playstation 5, myamoto would probably get cancer, and half life 3 woud be produced, but would turn out as a really bad, generic shooter.

05-21-2014, 05:40 PM	#15
Old Rivers Super Moderator Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 6,985	1991? you aint that old, son

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Happyjuice Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Posts: 11,573	-

05-22-2014, 02:43 AM	#21
Jesterfoot Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 7,470	Weed will be legal throughout the unites states along with many new weed-like drugs. Unemployment will rise dramatically as many customer service jobs will be automated, and simple office jobs can be done with AI software. Government becomes more socialist as a result. Word breaks out that there is a company building cars on a new form of clean energy but fades from the news after a series of assassinations. 10 month later gas companies disclose a patent to synthetic gasoline.

06-13-2014, 09:38 PM	#23
Fish Taco Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 7,034	Automatic cars, 3d printers as common desktop items, 3d printing pens are common, DIY culture is far more far spread, 3d printed organs extends life expectancy substantially, as was said further automation leading to rise in unemployment and more socialist government, legalised weed and prostitution, Alternate energy and fuel sources, fall of US as super power, rise of China then India, Cthulu rises.
Fish Taco Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 7,034

06-13-2014, 09:52 PM	#25
Lowgain Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 9,288	nobody will have any hair at all
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