Future predictions (#1 in a series)

I went away and saw a vision of the future (Dubai) and another (Malaysia). Having aggregated and synthesized the data, I'd say the future will look like this:

  • It will be more humid
  • It will be quite poorly planned/zoned
  • The battle against entropy will continue, using both ingenuity and brute force
  • People will be mostly happy
  • Demography will do funny things e.g. blow up in our face, undermine our assumptions
  • Historical grudges will not be solved (that's an easy prediction to make, right?)
  • There will be more laptops (another easy one), even as phones improve (less easy)
  • Indian cuisine will prevail over all others
  • It is not clear which technology will prevail for the opening of soft drink cans

Honestly, do you think any of those predictions will be wrong?

[Published: 31-Oct-07 | Permalink | Category: Science seen]

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