By the end of the year 2020:
What say you?
These predictions were all made in June 2015:
Abelian Grape:
- Most posts
- very real realdolls
- Anny will have at least 2 more accounts banned
KoTN: Colonel Smoothie’s post count > 40,000
BRM: There shall in that time be rumors of things going astray, erm, and there shall be a great confusion as to where things really are, and nobody will really know where lieth those little things with the sort of raffia-work base, that has an attachment. At that time, a friend shall lose his friend’s hammer, and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before, about eight o’clock
Westley: Driverless cars will be substantially all new cars sold in the US
BBB: incest, necrophilia, and pedophilia will be legal
yoyo: i’ll be retired
Colonel Smoothie: - New York City will still exist
- ao fan will be the #1 poster
- ao fan will be single
- ao fan will be married
- I’ll have my 9 cats by then
- I might have a shot at passing the SOA modules on my 10th attempt
- SOA will have overtaken the CAS
- CAS will have overtaken the SOA
- Snoo has 10th child
- BTTF hoverboards a reality
- Brett Favre will have another SB win
- Jeremy Lin will receive his 5th NBA All Star starting position
- nobody eats anything but soylent
- China wins WWIII
- Tom catches Jerry
- The Simpsons is cancelled
- the cavendish banana will be extinct and replaced by a new strain
- I will probably not post so much on the AO
- The rent will be to damn high
- NYC Water Tunnel No. 3 will have been completed
- Kingdom Tower will be the tallest building in the world
- Chicago will finally get around to using that pit they dug for the Chicago Spire
- Male birth control is invented
- Tuition is to damn high
- I imagine there will still be no female priests despite the looming priest shortage, although maybe the shortage won’t be so bad since fewer people won’t be religious
- Edward Snowden will still be somewhere not in America
- Tesla will finally turn a profit, maybe
- Box will declare bankruptcy
- some kind of consolidation amongst the struggling banks: Deustche Bank, Barclays, Credit Suisse
- Flash will be extinct
- Steve Jobs will be revived from the dead which will usher in a new golden age for technology
- LED tail lights will be the standard for autos
- Someone will accidentally settle on the BRIO superfund site which will bring about a new wave of litigation
- the Toyota Supra will finally be back on the market
- Those fleshlike robotic arms like the one Will Smith had in i-Robot will be available
- I’ll have a 3D printer
- Starcraft III will be in development
- after South Korea stops conscription, Korean players aren’t going to all of a sudden retire in their early 20s
- console gaming will be extinct
- Mazdar city will either be a spectacular success or failure
- github will win the git war
- Microsoft will all be like, whoops my bad, and Windows 12 will be in development
- we will probably be able to make dogs out of corn
- the tech bubble will be at its peak if not popped
- China’s real estate bubble along with Vancouver’s will have popped too
- candy bars will cost $1 and 75 cents would be considered a steal
47 (a / b). DS will have gotten a girlfriend / they’d probably breakup before 2020 and we will encounter him in a morose state - Devastator will have passed Exam C
- Sheba Poe will have a kid
Analyst D: - A company named Felstar or Gelstar, its something ___elstar, will change the nature of the human-inter-connectivity with the development of linking dots. These tiny dots you spread all over your skin which link through nodes attached behind your ears will create a fluid link between all people wearing them
- Bob Evans restaurant chain will restructure closing over a third of their locations. This will be the first step in a quest for a buyer which will prove fruitless leading to further reductions and a sell off with a name change to all remaining restaurants. Ten years later the only thing left with that name will be the sausage.
- The discovery of nanobes which infect specific aspects of the brain will lead to hope for curing many types of autoimmune and brain syndromes and diseases.
swifthat: Half Life 3 will not be released.
TheGillotine - Someone will have built a freestanding bipedal robot that can run as fast as a healthy adult human being
- DJZ will have been nominally punished for breaking forum rules 500 times without any serious punishment or change in behavior
T-roy: - e-cigars will have brought us a new-specific cancer of some sort. these things are going to be even worse than cigs.
- Cubs win WS
- most home values will be 25% less, on average, than their 2015 would be sales price
Buru Buru: I’ll be dead
corn dog: - but gay marriage will be legal and recognized in all 50 states. Republicans, realizing how much of the electorate cares about this, will only use this as an issue in house elections where the population is still bigoted and stupid, voting for hopeless causes of the past.
- certain curmudgeons on the AO will have children that are gay will have changed their mind, because they were perfect and loving christian parents - and yet their unmolested children are gay.
Loner: (Westly’s autobot cars) able to turn on autopilot on the highway
