Where? Where? Harry... 
didn't get the message he was coming!
If you think my big giant head is hot, Sally... 
take a look at these smoking hot buns of steel!
Face it, field... 
I've evolved beyond politics! I'm a sex symbol!
Posted on 04/20/2008 1:22:29 PM PDT by kingattax
60 essayists analyze future problems and prospects in 50-year forecast
How will the world look in the year 2058?
Sixty thinkers from around the world rise to that challenge in a collection of essays titled "The Way We Will Be 50 Years From Today."
The consensus view is that we'll muddle through many of the issues that vex us today — including climate change and terror threats. And we'll hit upon so many medical and technological wonders that today's 50-year-olds will have a fair chance of finding out firsthand how the world will look in 2058.
The problem with having so many predictions of the future is that they can look like a collection of to-do lists: The most popular item on the checklist would be getting your complete genetic code analyzed, so that the doctors can give you custom-made medications for what ails you (or what might have ailed you without the drugs). And don't forget the cyber-implants: Several essayists, including inventor-futurist Ray Kurzweil, heralded the day when nanomachines would merge with our own bodies.
In addition to those well-worn themes, "50 Years From Today" is jam-packed with nuggets of less conventional wisdom from experts in fields ranging from bioethics to counterterrorism.
* Diseases ranging from Alzheimer's and Parkinson's to schizophrenia and bipolar disorder will be shown to be caused by infectious agents that take advantage of genetic predisposition, says psychiatrist E. Fuller Torrey, president of the Treatment Advocacy Center. Researchers will be surprised to find that many of those infectious agents are being transmitted from animals to humans. As a result, it will be uncommon to keep cats, birds or hamsters as pets — but we'll still have dogs around, because they've been "man's best friend" for so long that we've already adjusted to their infectious agents.
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Where? Where? Harry... didn't get the message he was coming!
If you think my big giant head is hot, Sally... take a look at these smoking hot buns of steel!
Face it, field... I've evolved beyond politics! I'm a sex symbol!
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I got a few predictions for 2058:
40%+ of the deciduous trees east of the Mississippi River are dead, Asian Longhorned Beetle infestations destroyed them systematically.
Cod is so rare it is no longer commercially fished in the Atlantic.
Sardines are extinct in the Mediterranean.
The Mississippi River is now moving through the Atchafalaya River. New Orleans is slowly returning to nature.
Red foxes east of the Appalachians are extinct.
The forests of British Columbia and Alberta have been decimated to feed the pulp and wood product demands of Asian economies.
Australia has 45+ million residents, and many new nuclear plants, and electric city vehicles. They consume on average 40% less water Per person per day than in 2008. And much less petro-energy.
Hydroponic factories (owned and developed by Dutchmen) are 8 stories tall and 99% automated.
East Hampton and the East Fork is sold by New York State to a consortium of (New Dollar) Trillionaires, and is now a gated private county.
The average person in New York City is on camera 1000+ times a day.
The Ogalalla Aquifer fails to produce in several isolated areas, and agriculture is abandoned, and bison herds are reintroduced.
That is hilarious.
I stopped watching that show, can’t stand Spader’s liberal rants.
And the phone messages will say, “prensa dos para el Ingles”.
And don’t forget the highest rated program on tv in 2058 will be “Celebrity Dump” where early 21st century tv and movie stars (now in their 60s and 70s) compare the size, odor and shape of their excretum (inspired by that Bono episode of “South Park”). That will follow by “Celebrity Pee”, sponsored by America’s asparagus growers, which will fail to be picked up by Fox.
And of course, the series premiere of “Ow, My Balls !” which will run for the next 450 years. (See “Idiocracy”).
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