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Geek Culture / What Will the World Be Like in 30 Years Time?

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Bozzy
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Posted: 14th Jun 2007 20:31
Exactly as the title suggests, what dya think?

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Posted: 14th Jun 2007 20:36
I think that Microsoft will release Direct X 23 and you can say "I want to go on the Sims 7" and Sims 7 will open with you as the character!
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Posted: 14th Jun 2007 20:40
Rich will be richer, poor will be poorer, we will all be fighing over oil and food

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Posted: 14th Jun 2007 20:58
I think we'll still be around 30 years down the line, but as for 250, I'm doubtful. I believe that due to the scales of old-young people tipping, economatical collapse will occur in 25-40 years if the current trends continue.


Since the other one was scaring you guys so much...
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Posted: 14th Jun 2007 22:30
Well I plan to destroy the world in 20 years time...so we'll see...

Literally though, I think people will be more ignorant - the streets will be more dangerous, we'll look back at the chavvy kids today who are a real pain in the bum and say how well behaved children used to be, the world will have a bigger technological advances, and the biggest Rich countries in the world like England, China, America etc. will begin to have a society not worth living in - prices will probably have increased even more...And smoking will be punishable by death.

That's assuming if nobody changes.

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Posted: 14th Jun 2007 22:41
As Gatorhex pointed out, quite a few analysts think we'll be out of oil in 30 to 50 years. A lot of people aren't taking this nearly as seriously as they should be. You might hear people saying that we need to "end our dependence on foreign oil," when the grim reality of it is that we need to end our dependence on oil all together and come up with an alternative method of energy. Petrol doesnt' just fuel your car, it fuels our entire civilization. Roads, shoes, toys, electronics, all oil. Take a look at your keyboard... those plastic buttons? Yep, oil. And while there are fantastic alternatives, like for instance Sugar Ethanol (which is powering Brazil right now as I'm writing this), most of the western world is making no serious effort to start implementing them. We come up with corn ethanol... almost as bad for the environment as gasoline.

So my outlook for 2037 is pretty grim. We'll be in massive wars over oil, seeing western nations turning on each other. Global Warming will be far worse than it is today, so don't be surprised if it hits 130F in Canada in the summertime. Not that these things will effect me, because Agent Dink and I are going to pack up a bunch of hot chicks and video game consoles into a cave in some undisclosed location and watch you all rip each other apart while we giggle, our cheetos-stained hands clapping in amusement

Not that any of this really matters anyway... the Mayans said the world will end on December 21st 2012 . And unlike most prophecies, the Mayans have been accurate with their predictions so far. Edgar Cayce eat your heart out.

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Posted: 14th Jun 2007 22:46
I just saw a show on the top 8 ways that the earth could be destroyed, so I guess that pertains to this, I don't think it's against the AUP, since it's not religious. Let's see if I can remember them:
8) Gamma Ray Blast
7) Black Hole
6) Computers Take Over Weapons and Destroy World
5) Super Volcano (Yellowstone)
4) Asteroid
3) Nuclear War
2) Pandemic
1) Global Warming

Kind of scary. About the black hole, they said that they recently learned that they actually move, where before they thought they were stationary, so if one reached the edge our galaxy we would have approximately 20-30 years before it took out earth. The super volcano would be survivable but devastating. They said an asteroid is supposed to pass so closely to earth that it goes below the satellites in the year 2029 on Friday 13th of June, I think. Then one year later when it comes back around, it will be a close call again.


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Posted: 14th Jun 2007 22:48
well the worlds going to end on the 6th of june 2006 so it doesn't really ma....


...oh.


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Posted: 14th Jun 2007 22:49
Quote: "As Gatorhex pointed out, quite a few analysts think we'll be out of oil in 30 to 50 years. A lot of people aren't taking this nearly as seriously as they should be. You might hear people saying that we need to "end our dependence on foreign oil," when the grim reality of it is that we need to end our dependence on oil all together and come up with an alternative method of energy. Petrol doesnt' just fuel your car, it fuels our entire civilization. Roads, shoes, toys, electronics, all oil. Take a look at your keyboard... those plastic buttons? Yep, oil. And while there are fantastic alternatives, like for instance Sugar Ethanol (which is powering Brazil right now as I'm writing this), most of the western world is making no serious effort to start implementing them. We come up with corn ethanol... almost as bad for the environment as gasoline.
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Hopefully we will have found an effective alternate source by then, and I'm confident we will have, if only out of necessity .

Quote: "Not that any of this really matters anyway... the Mayans said the world will end on December 21st 2012 . And unlike most prophecies, the Mayans have been accurate with their predictions so far. Edgar Cayce eat your heart out."

Heh, I remember hearing that too.


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Posted: 14th Jun 2007 22:54
I find it hard to believe the Mayans counted years from the birth of Christ and used a Roman calender.

I think I must be the only person in the world with a positive view of the future. All conflict is caused by poor communication. People used to live in tribes, they had no contact, they spoke different languages and they developed separately, so they could not integrate properly, and fought.

The world is tiny now though, give it a decade or two and the internet will hit 99% penetration. Opinions get diluted when there is constant communication. Europe used to be a bunch a squabbling separate states, now it's the pinnacle of cooperation.

English will spread too, past tipping point I'll bet.

People exaggerate energy problems, if it really got that bad we'd just build two billion acre solar farms at the North and South poles.

It won't change noticebly in 30 years, apart from Europe becoming much more powerful and unified, but in two hundred years, it'll be all sorted out, and we'll have nothing to do but explore the rest of the universe.

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Posted: 14th Jun 2007 23:29
@ Chris K

This is bearing in mind that the things on Gil's list don't happen, right? lol

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Oh dear...Last time I thought heavily about the subject of the world coming to the end, I was, well scared. All these predictions have the potential to happen. I have watched a documentry about the super volcano and that scared the crap out of me. What can humans do to stop a volcano? Global warming also got me thinking. I read somewhere "live everyday as though it were your last" and that is so true. At anytime an asteroid could hit the earth, which is a scary thought. Nuclear war could very well happen, I just keep thinking about what people living at the time of the cold war felt like, with the threat of a nuclear war happening, just like the films "The day after" and "Threads". I remember when I saw "Terminator 2" for the first time, aged 12. I was frightened for days, and at the rate that computers are progressing, machines could take over humanity. Space scares me the most. We're just a tiny little lump of rock in a vast and endless 'space', which is full of dangers. I find it hard to believe that we are the only intelligent beings in the universe. There are billions of stars out there that could act as a sun to an earth like planet. Invasion from other beings? Very possible. There have been countless predictions for the end of the world, and the last one that I remember was St patricks day 2005. I will just keep my faith with God and hope that nothing happens in all our lifetimes.

The world in 30 years time? I think the world will do something about it's power sources. Nuclear power looks to be a feasible option. I think the world will be pretty much the same as it is today, but with higher ocean levels. I am sure that they will find a cure for aids and cancer by that time and world poverty will have gone.

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Quote: "At anytime an asteroid could hit the earth, which is a scary thought."

The good news is that we can predict them, at least, and possibly even prevent them. Like I was saying, we already know that in 2029 there will be an asteroid that passes very close to earth, and on it's way back, there's a 1/few thousand chance that some gravitational force will alter it's course enough to slam it into earth. The theory on preventing them is to take a large spaceship, land it on the asteroid, and use it's gravity to alter the asteroids course enough to make it miss earth. Just a theory of course. You can't blow it up contrary to movies, because that just creates thousands of little asteroids to shower earth with .
Volcanoes on the other hand are unpredictable, and Yellowstone (in Northwest US) is overdue to explode (it explodes every 600,000 years, and it's been something like 630,000), and could happen at anytime. It would destroy the western US and affect the entire world for decades.
Black holes also scare me. There is no possible way to stop them. It's like someone would just tell you you had 20 years to live and couldn't do anything about it, counting down to your last day. The only possible thing I can think of IF we had the technology when and if it happens is to launch a spaceship in the other direction ASAP, to go colonize another planet. I'm talking centuries in the future, of course.


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Posted: 14th Jun 2007 23:49 Edited at: 14th Jun 2007 23:50
Quote: "I find it hard to believe the Mayans counted years from the birth of Christ and used a Roman calender."

They didn't. Actually, the Mayans had a more advanced calendar than we do in the modern world. Here's an article I found about their calender (and the Wiki article as well, if you care for wiki articles), I think you might find it pretty interesting. Anyway, the Mayan calendar (which is more accurate than ours) is simply amazing... they knew things about astronomy that we couldn't work out until more recent times. And yet still they fed sacrifices to the sun to keep it coming up every day... go figure .

Anyway, their prophecy system revolves around my favorite concept, that history repeats itself. And using these calculations, they wrote these predictions that have so far very accurately predicted a number of events, including the American Civil War, the American Revolution, World War II, and Kennedy's assassination. Not names and such like some (like Nostradamus and Edgar Cayce) try to predict, just the turmoil occuring in that period. Anyway, each of these takes place in a specific period along their "long calendar," and the last date on their long calendar translates on the Gregorian calender to December 21st, 2012.

What makes some people think something evil will happen on that date (besides the Mayans saying the world will end) is the fact that the Earth's axis is going to shift on that date. And also, our sun is going to be perfectly aligned with the center of the Milky Way galaxy for the first time in 26,000 years... at exactly 11:11 GMT on December 21st 2012.

It's amazing what you learn when writing a text adventure, lol. I knew nothing at all about the Mayans until I started working on Eternal Equinox. Their civilization's calendar uses the first and second Equinox, and while looking into what an Equinox is, I stumbled across a ton of Mayan prophecy stuff... pretty interesting I think.

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Quote: "They said an asteroid is supposed to pass so closely to earth that it goes below the satellites in the year 2029 on Friday 13th of June, I think. "


That could end up as one unlucky firday 13th

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Quote: "What Will the World Be Like in 30 Years Time?"


In thirty years I will rule the earth and every living man will bow down to me.

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Quote: "What makes some people think something evil will happen on that date (besides the Mayans saying the world will end) is the fact that the Earth's axis is going to shift on that date. And also, our sun is going to be perfectly aligned with the center of the Milky Way galaxy for the first time in 26,000 years... at exactly 11:11 GMT on December 21st 2012."


Right down to the minute =\...bet that volcano will explode...watch....

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My money is on the oceans doing something funky when the axis shifts . How funny would that be, lol. Well, I guess it wouldn't be funny, I live pretty close to the Atlantic. And you guys in England are totally screwed, lol.

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Quote: "My money is on the oceans doing something funky when the axis shifts . How funny would that be, lol. Well, I guess it wouldn't be funny, I live pretty close to the Atlantic. And you guys in England are totally screwed, lol.
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ROFL ROFL...indeed....

I live in missouri, so i think im pretty freaking safe! Bye bye white house?

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30 years older then today

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Quote: "Global Warming will be far worse than it is today, so don't be surprised if it hits 130F in Canada in the summertime."


In 30 years? rofl.

Quote: "Anyway, their prophecy system revolves around my favorite concept, that history repeats itself. And using these calculations, they wrote these predictions that have so far very accurately predicted a number of events, including the American Civil War, the American Revolution, World War II, and Kennedy's assassination. Not names and such like some (like Nostradamus and Edgar Cayce) try to predict, just the turmoil occuring in that period. Anyway, each of these takes place in a specific period along their "long calendar," and the last date on their long calendar translates on the Gregorian calender to December 21st, 2012."


BS. They wrote about 'turmoil' at those times? There's turmoil at any give point around the world. The Mayans didn't know about the US, so for them to predict 'turmoil' in, say, 1967 and the fact that you link it to JFK is simply hilarious. Honestly, if anyone believes any of these end of the world nutbags, I truly believe they're just as nutty.

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sounds like a nightmare. once westart using RENEWABLE resources in cars it should delay the oil crisis by at least 50 years so inot trying ot sound rude but wont hve to deal with the oil problem as much as my children. but yes there will be more crime, more probelm,s you nevemr no

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Personally I think we're in some dark times, and we're heading for darker times still. But by 2037, chances are those times might be over and it might not be too bad again.

have a look at Howe & Strauss' work; http://www.fourthturning.com/html/fourth_turning.html

I won't go into too much detail here about it, but if you're interested in this sort of thing you should read up about what these two demographer's have firstly applied to history, and then what this enables them to in regards to predicting the course of events.

If you happen to be under the age of 25 (say), you - in Howe and Strauss' eyes are a "Hero Generation", which sounds great, until you find that the last Hero Generation fought and died in world war II.
I don't know about you, but I'd rather not get involved in a war.

The near future? Expect further polarisation of views between 'liberal' and 'conservative' values on so called battleground issues; which will occur both locally and globally. If Howe and Strauss are right, we're in the modern equivalent of the boiling tension before WWII.

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I think you need to read about what they actually wrote Jeku. How you interpret their predictions is entirely up to you, but when they say something to the effect of "between (1938) and (1945) there's going to be a huge world war," I tend to perk my ears . And they didn't just say turmoil, they went so far as to say what sort of turmoil was/ is happening during these periods. There's a History Channel special on "Decoding the Past" that will tell you all about it. Keep an eye out for it, I think even you, the most hardcore skeptic I know, might find it at least a little creepy .

And really, do we know what's going to happen when the earth's axis shifts? In all seriousness I doubt it would create floods or anything, gravity doesn't work like that, but what might this shift do to the atmosphere?

Quote: "In 30 years?"

I can't remember for the life of me where I saw that, but some guy on television said that a heat wave could go through Montreal with heat like that... temperature + humidity = 130f. A lot of people who refer to global warming as a "theory" will claim it's not as bad as people make it out to be... but they haven't seen images of Greenland lately, or parts of Alaska where grass is showing for the first time in human history. So yes, I think it could definitely become expotentially worse in the next 20 to 30 years. 30 years ago in 1977, how much were you hearing about global warming? Well, I wasn't even alive until 1979, but I think it's safe for me to guess the answer here: not much, because it wasn't a noticeable problem back then. So in 30 years I'm sure we could see a major shift in climate.

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Uhhh has anyone else noticed that humans are the only animals NOT adapting do this change?

Those migrations are natural, they are animals moving like they are supposed to. We however are acting like idiots and trying to STOP nature(10 years ago about, it was proven that trends lended their temperature changes with the number of sunspots)... what fools we have become.

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Quote: "I can't remember for the life of me where I saw that, but some guy on television said that a heat wave could go through Montreal with heat like that... temperature + humidity = 130f. A lot of people who refer to global warming as a "theory" will claim it's not as bad as people make it out to be... but they haven't seen images of Greenland lately, or parts of Alaska where grass is showing for the first time in human history. So yes, I think it could definitely become expotentially worse in the next 20 to 30 years. 30 years ago in 1977, how much were you hearing about global warming? Well, I wasn't even alive until 1979, but I think it's safe for me to guess the answer here: not much, because it wasn't a noticeable problem back then. So in 30 years I'm sure we could see a major shift in climate."


Actually at that point we were being bombarded by the fact that we were about to enter an Ice age because it was so cold. (a period of time when we were throwing far more c02 into the air by the way). 130 is a massive exagerration by whomever said it. If we warm about 5 degrees we will actually be much better off in terms of agriculture. 5 degrees by the by is a major shift.

in 30 years we will have developed medicines and treatments keeping us alive far to long, overpopulation will become a major problem.

I doubt there will be any nuclear war (some lunatic might detonate a nuke, but I do not think we are truly foolish enough tho fight such a war). At about that time we will be entering a periosd of cooling if things continue as normal and people will again be claiming the Ice age is coming.

Also I might finally have paid off the credit cards by then

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Quote: "I doubt there will be any nuclear war (some lunatic might detonate a nuke, but I do not think we are truly foolish enough tho fight such a war). "

What they said in the program was that it most likely would be by accident, with one side misinterpreting the moves of another, launching a nuclear weapon, causing the other side to launch a retaliatory strike, and vice-versa.


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What I think the world will be in 30 years:

Possibility 1: In '08, a good President will be elected in the U.S. The wars will be stopped, and a good defense system will be launched in both America and Britian.
In 2037, I think if that happened, the world would be less of a nightmare, you will not have to worry about some guy suing you for ridiculous reasons. But then because the stock market didn't crash, computers have been improved and have their own minds.
The computers will team up and destroy earth to create an artificial computer world. Then one of the computers will install the latest Windows, and then get a memory dump error, causing a chain reaction of computer explosions, causing the artificial world to go BOOM. A few human survivors start the world back up, when all the sudden, gamma rays melt the earth, and it is destroyed by December, 2037.

Possibility 2: The U.S gets another crappy President, and launches a nuke at Iraq. This makes the U.N and the U.K mad, so the U.S does something else stupid and attacks them, the U.K teams up with a few partners, and together, they destroy the U.S. This causes China to loose billions of dollars, so they destroy the partners of the U.K, then launches a nuke at the U.K. The U.K launches back, and France sees the nuke and thinks it is for them, so they launch a nuke at China, and Japan sees it, so they launch a nuke at France, and in a couple months, it is a nuclear war.
Earth turns into a pile of ash, because it's inhabitants were stupid. Two survivors survive until 2037, when a gamma ray hits them and kills them.

Possibility 3: The stock market crashes, the earth goes into another great depression, etc. You know it, it has probably been posted 10 times.

Possibility 4 - The best: A cat stays in his mother long, enough to make his brain develop longer. When he is born, he is super-smart.
By the year 2037, that cat becomes cat King, and makes a formula to make all cats super-smart, cats rule earth, dogs are piano ornaments, humans are slaves, chickens are dinner, and computers are robots to serve dinner. The gamma rays head towards earth, but the king cat had already made the humans build a gamma ray reflector around earth, and earth is saved.

Who will die first?
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It's always a cat!

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haha the cat is funny. but all we can do is hope for the best, i hope we dont' got into a spiralling depression, i like the video game world, a big carrer thing, and not to be come an uneeded carrer when we all need money.ahha

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Quote: "1) Global Warming"


I think this probably the super parents way of "sugar coating" the fact we should use less fuel because it's running out.

They won't say it directly to avoid panic and the stock market going crazy.

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Quote: "Anyway, their prophecy system revolves around my favorite concept, that history repeats itself. And using these calculations, they wrote these predictions that have so far very accurately predicted a number of events, including the American Civil War, the American Revolution, World War II, and Kennedy's assassination. Not names and such like some (like Nostradamus and Edgar Cayce) try to predict, just the turmoil occuring in that period. Anyway, each of these takes place in a specific period along their "long calendar," and the last date on their long calendar translates on the Gregorian calender to December 21st, 2012.""

Well, it's hard to predict the end of the world by 'history repeating itself', so personally, I ain't worried - I don't believe in any prophecies at all. Life is life, and no force has any influence on the future. If we with our current technology can't predict tomorrows weather, then we certainly can't plan the end of the world. Luckily, I can plan how Windows is to evolve:

2009 - The Windows(tm) development technique turns out to be seriously flawed. A complete rewrite is started.

2011 - The New Windows(tm) development technique turns out to be seriously flawed. A complete rewrite is started. However, the project built on the 2009 development technique is released as to be the next big step.

2014 - The New Windows(tm) development technique turns out to be seriously flawed. A complete rewrite is started. Windows RANDOM is released. Due to lack of creativity, all variables are random, and complaints start to move in as Start Button are suddenly located center-screen, and the taskbar is now rotatable over the x-axis for multiple taskbars.

2017 - The New Windows(tm) development technique turns out to be seriously flawed. A complete rewrite is started. Windows RANDOM SP7 is released, codename: N.O.T.S.O.R.A.N.D.O.M. In Windows Random NotSoRandom, the Start Bar reacquired a new solid, lower-left location. Networking, however, turns out to be a pain (as usual). The EULA now states that you actually lease the OS, as was originally planned in 2007 with Vista. Therefor, you must monthly call a toll-free number to extend your lease.

2020 - The New Windows(tm) development technique turns out to be seriously flawed. A complete rewrite is started. Windows Solid is released. Although the number of BSOD's per month has been decreased to 4 on a normal computer in the last two decades, there are still problems. For example, the WSOD, YSOD and GSOD that Microsoft has introduced in Windows Solid, which, each has a 25% chance of appearing and replacing the Blue with White, Yellow or Green.

2022 - The New Windows(tm) development technique turns out to be seriously flawed. A complete rewrite is started. Windows Solid is updated to SP3 - Codename: Works. Microsoft lawyers immediatly sew Microsoft for breaking copyright before they are called back by the Microsoft management. MS Windows Solid Works incorporates many features, including the long-awaited removal of the CSOD (Color Screen of Death, as it is called after the introduction of randomly colored SOD's). No more warnings about computer shutdown, is promised. This turns out to be true - the computer now crashes without warning.

Enjoy the following links, ExitMundi giving a lot of End Of World Scenario's in a humorous way, and FutureNews being guess what...?

http://www.exitmundi.nl/exitmundi.htm
http://www.newsoffuture.com/year_2035/

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Hopefully, in 30 years time, the world will forgive this feud between East and West and North and South and just live like human beings... then again... we are a dumb race.

I'm betting (1) we land and colonise Mars or that planet outside our solar system using teleportation pods. (2) a new alien race colonises this earth and wipes us out because we are just too dumb to live with, even for amusement, (3) well, can't think of one right now...

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Posted: 15th Jun 2007 19:26
In 30 years time, we'll be battling artificial beings for our lives.

I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do. ~Hal-9000
Dazzag
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Posted: 15th Jun 2007 19:48
Maybe you matey. I will be battling the government to give me a pension. Then perhaps battling the *really* old blokes to be first in line to get my chicken soup from a grumpy huge nazi like nurse.

I'm depressed now. Where is the beer?

Cheers

I am 99% probably lying in bed right now... so don't blame me for crappy typing
Current fave quote : "She was like a candle in the wind.... unreliable...."
Bug Man
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Posted: 16th Jun 2007 00:45
Has anyone thought about Y2K30?!?

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xplosys
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Posted: 16th Jun 2007 01:01 Edited at: 16th Jun 2007 01:02
Who cares. In twenty years we won't remember any of this.

I'm sorry, my answers are limited. You must ask the right question.

Zombie 20
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Posted: 16th Jun 2007 10:43
Quote: "Who cares. In twenty years we won't remember any of this"


well put .

SpyDaniel
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Posted: 16th Jun 2007 13:44
I will, I never forget any thing

Ill come back to these forums in 30 years time and say "do you remember that thread about what the world will be like in 30 years?"

... Its the same.
Bozzy
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Posted: 17th Jun 2007 03:26
In 30 years time, England might have actually won another major sporting tournament! Very unlikely, but we live in hope
Nack
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Posted: 17th Jun 2007 06:28
the number of mmorpg creation thread will be off the charts lol


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Stoopid
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Posted: 17th Jun 2007 06:51
Im just going to wait and find out...so don't spoil it for me!

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MikeB
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Posted: 17th Jun 2007 14:37
I know I know:

Someone will have actually finished an MMORPG in Dark Basic Pro.

I'll probably have started going bald..... HELP!

E.D.


Shame I can't change my name
Miguel Melo
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Posted: 17th Jun 2007 14:46
Actually, unlike most people I don't think things will be that much different. I certainly don't think we'll have flying cars or personal jetpacks or anything.

It will be warmer though, and it will only be safe to go to the beach until 10am and after 6pm. It will be common for people to live to be 100, retirement age will probably be 70-75 by then.

Ah, almost forgot... Portugal will still not have won the Eurovision song contest yet.

I have vague plans for World Domination
tha_rami
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Posted: 17th Jun 2007 16:08
Duke Nukem Forever will be released.

Grandma
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Posted: 17th Jun 2007 16:50
^Haha, let's not get unrealistic here!

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Bozzy
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Posted: 17th Jun 2007 20:30
lol

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