5 tech predictions from 1968 that were dead-on (and 5 that were completely nuts)
40 years ago, science fiction writer James R. Berry predicted what the future would look like on November 18th, 2008. He nailed a few things including home computers, internet shopping, and even the Roomba.
In keeping with this tradition, I, Captain Not, will place forth my predictions for what is in store 40 years in the future. What the world will look like on November 18, 2048.
1. Flying cars. Every good look into the future needs to have flying cars. People like the idea of personalized flight and nothing says that more than a snapshot of the Jetsons zooming around in their flying cars.
2. The internet will be like air. It will be everywhere and used for everything. You will be able to shop, track your children, watch 3-d video all via this expansive network that is thousands of time larger than the internet and millions of time faster.
3. Huge wild pigs will rise up and take over West Virginia. They will set up a crude society and try to obtain weapons of mass destruction. Humans will not see this as a threat because to us it will be like a huge self-run ham-sandwich factory.
4. Not only will California and parts of Oregon break off of the continental plate and sink into the ocean, but there will be stubborn people who will refuse to leave and within just two generations, humans will evolve to live under water, eat seaweed, and be amazed by the Kevin Costner flop “Waterworld”. These people will be referred to as “Wet Trash”.
5. Wal-Mart will become a member of NATO.
6. Walt Disney will be unfrozen long enough to wake him up, tell him it’s 1967, show him an episode of the Teletubbies and tell him they are our leaders. Then freeze him in Carbonite.
7. Belgian Waffles will be renamed “The Republic of Kanzir Waffles” to better reflect the current geography.
8. Axl Rose will finally release the follow up to “Chinese Democracy”. It will be called “Fart Elastic”.
