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PREDICTIONS
As of July 1, 2008
2009: The 787 Dreamliner is dubbed the "Nightmareliner" by the press when further delays are announced. More than 200 existing orders are cancelled as troubled airlines seek to cut costs.
[Note added 6/03/09: See http://blog.seattlepi.com/aerospace/archives/137905.asp for updated info or Google "nightmareliner".]
2010: A major catastrophe occurs at a decommissioned nuclear power plant because the radioactive materials stored therein were never moved to a safe location. Long term economic losses are estimated at $120 to 140 billion dollars.
2010: A new theory of gravity, called Folded Space-Time, is developed to explain observed trajectory divergences by spacecraft that have gone beyond the orbit of Pluto.
2010: New Orleans is evacuated when the flooding Mississippi, a slow moving tropical storm, and long-term power failure combine to flood it.
2011: Bill Gates funds a company that develops room-temperature super-conductors. His net worth doubles over the next 25 years because of his ownership in this company.
2011: The basis for the organization of single celled organisms into multi-cellular organisms is found in the bio-film that lines indoor plumbing pipes.
2011: The 10,000,000th hybrid vehicle is sold by Toyota. GM files for Chapter 7 protection.
2012: A major outbreak occurs when terrorists fumble while incubating material for a bio-attack. In addition to local human fatalties, all wild yaks are wiped out.
2012: The EU hegemony continues to expand and thrive, adding Belarus.
2012: Virgin Galactic opens the first hotel in space - a module added to the International Space Station. Sir Richard states that tourists want "a one-night stand, not just a quickie".
2012: Cracks are found in the Three Rivers Gorges dam after a large earthquake.
2013: Lloyds of London insures ships that use the Great Northern Route.
2013: Paul McCartney marries his 23 year old nurse.
2013: A squadron of Joint Strike Fighters are used in combat. An F-35 with VTOL capability lands safely on the roof of a skyscraper after sustaining battle damage.
2014: The EU adds Turkey as a member despite the threatened pull-out of several founding member countries. Belgium permanently leaves the European hegemony.
2014: China lands two people on the moon, one of which is a woman. The press waggishly refers to them as "Adam and Selene".
2015: Quebec asks to join the EU.
2015: The world's largest solar reflecting farm, located in western Australia, goes live.
2016: Motivated by revised Federal spending rules, Texas splits into 4 states: West Texas, Texarkana, Texas, and Acadiana.
2016: Gorillas are recognized by Denmark and California as having the same rights as humans.
2017: "Peak population" occurs. Over the next 100 years, global population slowly declines.
2018: The US finally adds Puerto Rico as a state, but rejects Kyoto III.
2018: China holds its first national election.
2020: Wind turbines provide 25% of US power.
2021: The discoverer of synthetic reservetrol (and the world's newest billionaire), graduates from the University of Colorado.
2022: While ballooning, a popular celebrity crashes into a wind turbine and dies. Further expansion of wind turbines in the US comes to a halt.
2023: Fusion Systems based in Batavia, Illinois, raises $15 billion during its IPO just six months after demonstrating the world's first energy-positive fusion device.