Popular Mechanics: 110 Predictions For the Next 110 Years

Your Car Will Be Truly Connected

Maybe newer cars, but not the vehicle I just bought ('67 GMC 1/2 ton). It's got power nothing, and I like it that way.

I predict there will be societies of people who defiantly chose to live as we now exist.

The real Amish already do that. Live as they did 100-200 years ago.

I think you missed the point of that movie.

I didn’t see the movie. I saw the previews more than once, and thought about the storyline later. Most Johnny’s films are not meant for me, but the notion was fascinating. I thought at $14. a ticket, it would be too much of a dystopian downer to see that film.

LOL...I know where to go when I need some pics doctored now...

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People will be fluent in every language
- Esperanto and Slovio, get studyin'!
Software will predict traffic jams before they occur
- Unfortunately, the software makes Windows tablets hang.
Climate-controlled jackets will protect soldiers from extreme heat and cold.
- Unfortunately, soldiers will no longer be allowed to carry weapons.
Nanoparticles will make chemotherapy far more effective.
- Unfortunately, nanoparticles will be banned because they cause cancer.
Electric cars will roam (some) highways.
- Unfortunately, they'll be controlled by Jihadist Skynet.
Athletes will employ robotic trainers.
- The Olympics will be cancelled because all the robotic trainers are anatomically correct hotties.
Bridges will repair themselves with self-healing concrete.
- In a related story, bridges will be banned under pressure from construction unions.
Digital "ants" will protect the U.S. power grid from cyber attacks.
- Unfortunately, by 2030, the ecoterrorism movement will have banned power generation.
Scrolls will replace tablets.
- Worked for the successors of Moses.
Your car will communicate with traffic lights to improve traffic flow, interact with other vehicles to prevent accidents, let you drag and drop a playlist, will find the gas station with the deepest discount and handle the payment, and will notify you when someone dents your door and supply footage of the incident.
- Unfortunately, by 2030, the ecoterrorism movement will have banned vehicles.
We'll send 3D printers to other planets to print habitats for humans prior to our arrival
- Unfortunately, by 2030, the ecoterrorism movement will have banned space travel.
Your genome will be sequenced before you are born.
- Yeah, that's how it has always worked.
Radiation sickness will be cured by injection.
- Unfortunately, everyone will need the injection because Obama and Putin collaborated on getting Iran the Bomb.
That car part you need will be sculpted inside a 3D printer.
- See #10.
Drugs will be tested on "organ chips" that mimic the human body.
- Anti-GMO nutjobs will ban all such research and its resulting products.
Passwords will be obsolete.
- Sony will be blamed.
Car tires will be brewed by bacteria.
- See #15.
Self-cleaning buildings will help us fight smog.
- Clearly, someone never came home from the Transformers movie.
Your clothes will clean themselves too.
- Clearly, someone never came home from the Back to the Future movies.
Drones will protect endangered species.
- The only species actually endangered by that time will be Second Amendment supporters.
Data will be measured in zettabytes.
- World could run out of computer hard drive space by 2020, expert warns
Rescuers will use electronic noses to locate disaster victims.
- CNN will still be running the story about it in 2222 AD.
Genetic testing will be used to halt epidemics.
- See #15.
Vaccines will wipe out drug addiction.
- Finally, a pill we can take to get rid of addiction. /s
Smart homes will itemize electric, water, and gas bills by fixture and appliance.
- See #8.
Vegetarians and carnivores will dine together on synthetic meats.
- Vegetarians will have had giant show trials and mass executions of omnivores long before that.
Contact lenses will grant us Terminator vision.
- "We have the technology."
Checkups will be conducted by cellphone.
- Unfortunately, by that time mobile phone technology will have been succeeded by personal communication implants, and everyone will be assigned the same termination date, age 45.
All 130 million books on the planet will be digitized.
- Just in time for the burning.
Nurse Jackie will be a robot.
- (inside reference, see "Old Jews Telling Jokes", health insurance)
Supersonic jets will return... The limit on supersonic flight is not one of engineering but of economics.
- No, it's all about whether anyone will put up with the sonic booms. They won't. Forget the hell about SSTs.
Highways will handle three times as many cars.
- See #10.
Farmers will grow caffeine-free coffee beans.
- Caffeine will be outlawed, then brought back as "medical caffeine".
Supercomputers will be the size of sugar cubes.
- Unfortunately, people with poor close-up vision will keep dropping them in the caffeine-free coffee. This wouldn't happen if they weren't so groggy. See #24.
We will find life beyond Earth.
- The Viking lander had an experiment to look for microbial life, and found it, and NASA and others have spent almost 40 years denying it.
A virtual lawyer will help you plan your estate.
- Oh, I'm sure some real lawyers have plans for all of our estates.
Vertical farms will feed cities.
- The trick will be to invent spoons that size.
Connecticut will feed the world.
- Unfortunately each meal will cost over $50.
Scientists will discover direct evidence of dark matter.
- Unfortunately, it will be about twenty minutes before the impending arrival of a huge cloud of dark matter destroys all life on Earth.
Navy SEALs will be able to hold their breath for 4 hours.
- They'll use this new ability to dive into the waters off south Asia and retrieve proof that they killed bin Laden, just in time for one of Obama's daughters to win the Democratic nomination for POTUS.
Tuna will be raised on farms.
- Sure, but it's really sad, seeing them try to swim across that dusty barnyard.
Robots will rule the LV games!
- Everyone else will be getting laid. Also, see #6.
The Pentagon will say goodbye to large submarines.
- See #'s 3, 13, and 20.
We're all gonna die. -- MythBusters host Jamie Hyneman
- The MythBusters cast first, I hope.
An ion engine will reach the stars.
- It will go at night. /rimshot!
Doctors will check your vital signs around the clock via tiny sensors, Stomach chips will monitor your diet to help you lose weight, Spinal cord implants will reverse paralysis, Brain chips will let you absorb data while you sleep, Brain interfaces will help you fully inhabit virtual worlds.
- See #28.
Scientists will map the quadrillion connections between the brain's neurons.
- They'll discover an astonishing lack of connections in liberals.
One of us will celebrate a 150th birthday.
- The rest of us will be babbling about a random series of things while people around us try to eat cake despite the smell of our soiled diapers.
WITHIN 20 YEARS... Self-driving cars will hit the mainstream market
- It'll turn out that the mainstream market was uninsured.
WITHIN 20 YEARS... Battles will be waged without direct human participation (think robots or unmanned aerial vehicles)
- They do now, they're called A) video games and B) drone strikes on jihadists
WITHIN 20 YEARS... The first fully functional brain-controlled bionic limb will arrive.
- The first patient to receive one will use it to masturbate for the first time in years.
WITHIN 30 YEARS... All-purpose robots will help us with household chores
- See #6.
WITHIN 30 YEARS... Space travel will become as affordable as a round-the-world plane ticket
- See #11.
WITHIN 30 YEARS... Soldiers will use exoskeletons to enhance battlefield performance.
- The advances in boner pills and baldness cures will be awe-inspiring by then.
WITHIN 40 YEARS... Nanobots will perform medical procedures inside our bodies.
- Three words -- Mary Baker Eddy.
WITHIN 50 YEARS... We will have a colony on Mars
- See #11.
WITHIN 50 YEARS... Doctors will successfully transplant a lab-grown human heart
- The resulting lab-grown human heart tree in the front lawn of the research facility will become a must-see tourist attraction.
WITHIN 50 YEARS... We will fly the friendly skies without pilots onboard
- Unfortunately, North Korea will hack all the planes.
WITHIN 50 YEARS... Renewable energy sources will surpass fossil fuels in electricity generation.
- See #8. That's literally the only way this could happen.
WITHIN 60 YEARS... Digital data (texts, songs, etc.) will be zapped directly into our brains
- Talk about not being able to get that tune out of your head.
WITHIN 60 YEARS... We will activate the first fusion power plant
- Within minutes, the entire Earth will be destroyed by an uncontrolled fusion reaction. Fake conservatives will blame Bechtel.
WITHIN 60 YEARS... We will wage the first battle in space.
- See #50.
WITHIN 100 YEARS... The last gasoline-powered car will come off the assembly line.
- More to the point, the predictions of the demise of personal transporation will still be tootin' out of someone's ass 24/7.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3242774/posts?page=48#48

Who is that?

Well, according to Back to the Future, we're supposed to start dressing like this:

...By October 21 of this year.

Bull! Be honest, that`s a photo-shopped Yoda!

· Tuna will be raised on farms. Ah, the bluefin—powerful, dangerous, graceful ... and delicious served raw. Long reproduction cycles and a migratory lifestyle make it hard to tame, though. Pioneering fish farms in Mexico are now raising the species, fattening tons of fish in massive underwater pens. Similar efforts are underway in the U.S., Japan, and the Mediterranean.

This is already being done in Australia with much success (being done indoors and they were the first to pull it off if I recall)

you doubt the Authenticity of photo of glate readel?/s

> you doubt the Authenticity of photo of glate readel?/s

After what I’ve seen I doubt the authenticity of ANYTHING I see that’s presented by the MSM or the FedGov as “real” when it comes to audio or video footage. The manipulation software and techniques that are used now make it even difficult for the experts to distinguish. You have to go find witnesses to confirm it and even then you have to check THEIR backgrounds to make sure they’re not a plant...lol

Fraud was the watchword for 2014!

Diligence should be at the top of the list for 2015...

an authentic ad for the tshirt thats bound to trend...within the jihadist "community...

Not my girlfriend...sigh.

(No clue, I typed “hottest chicks” into Google)

Software will predict traffic jams before they occur.

Hmmm... If I can predict the jam, then I can prevent the jam, therefore the jam never occurs, making it unpredictable...Great Scott!!!

Kate Hockly