2010 Predictions

Dear FutureMe, How about this for predictions: National unemployment rates start to fall early May of 2010 The recession will be "officially over" come summer of 2010 Republicans get very close to, but don't win, a majority in both the house and senate in 2010 despite pundit expectations War in Iraq "ends" with the official withdrawal of combat troops, but about 6 months late because of bullshit "security concerns." I predict February of 2011. Afghanistan withdrawal will begin July of 2011, as promised, but a full withdrawal will crawl until early summer of 2012. Palin runs for president in 2012, loses the republican nomination to Mitt Romney Mitt Romney chooses Huckabee as his running mate to appease Evangelical Christians Obama squeaks by re-election in 2012 December 21st, 2012 passes without incident -- with the possible exception of non-stop media whoring Iran will develop a crude fission nuclear weapon by 2013. Israel will launch airstrikes against Iranian nuclear facilities. Marijuana is decriminalized or legalized in the majority of states by 2014 Gay civil rights will reach full national acceptance by 2017 We'll have a new bubble burst in 2017 and a short-lived recession through 2018 In 2019, funding and work begins on a fledgling lunar colony, similar to the ISS. However, this will not come to fruition until many years later. By 2020, we have 32TB Solid-State Hard Drive Disks and 64-core processors. SSDs will be fast enough to replace RAM entirely. Sometime in this decade, another Duke Nukem game is announced, apparently it's no longer going to be called "Duke Nukem Forever" McCain dies of natural causes before Obama's second term is up, casting credence to the terrible 'what-could-have-been' scenario of a President Palin A nuclear weapon will be detonated somewhere in the world Meh, I'm going to have a go at some predictions :) 2010 - An electric engine is produced for use in automobiles which is efficient enough to permit the use of electric car batteries that perform and charge at a level competitive to regular petrol powered vehicles. 2011 - The Higgs Boson is discovered. (N.B. I will omit predictions that supersede this, as they are beyond my comprehension.) 2012 - Is an ironically uneventful year. Feb 2013 - A new computing interface is invented Sep 2013 - This new interface is now more common than the keyboard and mouse on home and work computers. 2015 - World temperature fluctuations cause noticeable damage to the development of Africa, increasing aid handouts by 100% 2018 - Virgin Galactic commercial space flights become popular among the upper and upper-middle class. (And among wealthy gap year students) 2019 - China's GDP exceeds the USA's for the first time in history. 2020 - Unexpectedly high water level rises cause severe damage to human developments around the world including the sinking of Venice. 2020 - A super computer is completed which exceeds the computational power of the whole human race combined. Ohh this is fun!