My predictions for the future
Posted on Thursday, December 6th, 2007 at 5:57 pm
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Send a message to your future self on this Web site!
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I stumbled across a very cool site today. It’s run by American car manufacturer Acura, and I think it’s designed as a promotion for their future concept cars. Anyway the site allows you to compose a message consisting of predictions for the future and then have that message sent to someone or yourself up to nine years later!
A screen shot of the web page where you can leave your message for the future. Click to visit the page.
I’ve scheduled to receive a message from myself in early 2017 and have included my predictions for the future. I’ve removed the personal stuff, but here’s a few things I think will be in place in 2017:
- Western governments will have used the ‘war on terror’ as an excuse to instigate a police state.
- Almost every bit of communication will be monitored.
- Receiving this email will make you nervous.
- People will be cloned.
- Brain and body ‘enhancements’ will be very prevalent.
- Designer babies will be all the rage, and a genetic lower and upper class will be developing.
- A cure for HIV will have been found.
- Africa will be developing much better.
- The US will no longer be the dominant global power - the EU will be instead.
- People will be very environmentally aware.
- Global warming will continue to cause massive problems
- There will no longer be a Northern ice cap.
- The Internet will be/have been used as a tool to control the global awareness of certain issues.
You can use anything created by me on this site in terms of the 
5 Comments
On Thu 06th Dec 07 @ 9:30 pm Dieter said:
“The US will no longer be the dominant global power - the EU will be instead.”
I don’t believe one word of that. I tend to think the Asian region or maybe even South America will be in charge.
Europe is becoming a region of ’services’. We’ re becoming so dependent on other regions for basic resources that one day we’ll just be a slave of them.
Definitely not (Western) Europe.
(don’t spank me if I’m wrong)
On Mon 10th Dec 07 @ 11:35 am admin said:
Don’t you think that everyone is becoming dependant on everyone else? Personally, I don’t think it will be possible to successfully isolate yourself in the future. The world is only getting more connected.
However, you might be correct about the Asian region… I’m not very educated in global politics, so that was just a guess based on snippets I’ve picked up recently from I cannot remember where.
I had to make some wild guesses for the future, you know, otherwise prediction loses its fun!
On Thu 13th Dec 07 @ 4:18 am Dieter said:
Yes, of course isolation will become more and more impossible.
But I tend to think that when resources become scarce (like oil, raw materials, basic growth of crops, food, etc…), the power will shift to those
countries that have that resources and raw materials available and that the countries that provide only services and depend on the other countries will lose their influence on the global market.
I might be wrong though as I’m not a global politics expert either, but that’s how I feel it.
On Sun 16th Dec 07 @ 4:13 pm MW said:
I tend to believe that China is on the arise and the Chinese language will somehow have an impact on the world.
On Mon 17th Dec 07 @ 6:00 am admin said:
I hope so, MW. That will mean all my time spent learning (and now teaching) Chinese will be worthwhile. Let’s hope that the Mandarin-speaking world chooses to use traditional symbols, or at least Roger Gordon’s “pinyin” system.
As usual, thanks for coming by!