By the year 2010, ...

[Fenryr]

So, if anyone else remembers the Conan O'Brien/Andy Richter book that made predictions about life in the 21st century, ... this is like that. Be they funny, serious, or a bit of both, what are your predictions/realizations/assumptions for the year 2010?

1) We'll only be 5 years away from hoverboards and self-adjusting clothing, according to Back to the Future II, anyways, ...

2) Halle Berry's ego will be so over-inflated that she will refuse to do mere movies and demand a new medium be crafted around her.

 

[Dew k. Mosi]

By the year 2010 I will have 100,000 posts

 

[heypapajinx]

by the year 2010

-Michael Jackson will be world dominator and Pee Wee Herman will be his second in command

 

[Caliber]

By the year 2010, Oprah will demand her cult to rise and overthrow all governments.

 

[The Kid]

By 2010 I'll be mod and you all shall suck up to me.

 

[heypapajinx]

By 2010 I'll be mod and you all shall suck up to me.

that.... will never happen

 

[The Kid]

Because you say it won't? forgive me for still having hope then.

 

[chamber-music]

So, if anyone else remembers the Conan O'Brien/Andy Richter book that made predictions about life in the 21st century, ... this is like that. Be they funny, serious, or a bit of both, what are your predictions/realizations/assumptions for the year 2010?

1) We'll only be 5 years away from hoverboards and self-adjusting clothing, according to Back to the Future II, anyways, ...

2) Halle Berry's ego will be so over-inflated that she will refuse to do mere movies and demand a new medium be crafted around her.

I've been waiting for my damn hoverboard since that movie came out. Come on scientists stop trying to cure cancer and start make flying skateboards damn it.

 

[Clobberin' Time]

I personally can't wait for Jaws 19

 

[Fenryr]

I've been waiting for my damn hoverboard since that movie came out. Come on scientists stop trying to cure cancer and start make flying skateboards damn it.

I love the fact that Zemeckis claimed Mattel actually made them, but they were considered too dangerous to release into the market.

3) Marvel may make a decent cartoon, ... but probably not.

 

[jimmy]

By the year 2010, Bad Religion will still have a song called "Ten in 2010".

 

[Caliber]

By the year 2010, Guns N Roses original line up will reunite and get long.

 

[Hades]

By the year 2010, Guns N Roses original line up will reunite and get long.

And hell will freeze over.

 

[Kyalesyin]

By the year 2010 we'll all be plugging our brains into the computer and never leaving our homes, relying on sysnthesised nutrients and IV feeding tubes to keep us alive. Then we'll all get wiped out by a computer virus.

 

[Fenryr]

By the year 2010 we'll all be plugging our brains into the computer and never leaving our homes, relying on sysnthesised nutrients and IV feeding tubes to keep us alive. Then we'll all get wiped out by a computer virus.

So, just how many times have you watched the Thirteenth Floor?

 

[Kyalesyin]

So, just how many times have you watched the Thirteenth Floor?

I haven't, ever. But I have read some really cheap sci-fi lately about people not being able to survive without the internet, and a lack of internet wiping out the population. It was bad enough that I gave it away to a church sale before I bothered to finish it, but I did make me wonder how many people would be screwed without the internet.

 

[Asteroid-Man]

By the year 2010 I will be one of the only posters left on these boards

 

[Fenryr]

If you like decent sci-fi, Kyalesyin, you should read William Gibson's The Gernsback Continuum. It's about this guy that researches so much art deco, when everything was supposed to be "futuristic", that he starts slipping in and out of a parallel existence where things actually ended up like people predicted. Meaning, everyone has chrome-plated jetpacks and dresses like Flash Gordon.

4) Jim's Big Ego might actually get some kind of mainstream radio recognition for being unrivaled in the field of awesomeness.

 

[Kyalesyin]

Gibson is a god when it comes to that sort of thing. Makes the brain hurt a little some times, he knows how to pack a lot into a little book, but definately a guy I need to read more of. I haven't come accross that one, so I'll check it out.

I always liked Asimov's view of the future- People will never change.

 

[Prodigy]

by 2010 I'll have a little over a thousand posts... finally (only took me 10 years!)

 

[Fenryr]

I was always more into Bradbury, but that's just me. There are so many recommendations I could make, but I'll try and limit myself. Try and read Blood Music by Greg Bear, and Holy Fire by Bruce Sterling, and stay as far away as you can from Neal Stephenson. His writing is so monotonously dense, any "gee-whiz factor" is totally destroyed. One page to introduce a character that kind of looks Mayan, and fifty pages about Mayan culture does not a satisfying tale make.

 

[Asteroid-Man]

by 2010 I'll be a mod

EDIT: MARK MY WORDS! muhuhuahahahahahahahahahaha!

 

[Kaboom]

greys sports almanac

 

[Iceman]

by the year 2010

-Michael Jackson will be world dominator and Pee Wee Herman will be his second in command

I don't think this will happen.

 

[Asteroid-Man]

NEVER EVER will it happen.But this guy also believes in mermaids