# Your Predictions **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [January 3, 2014, 12:20am UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/your-predictions/3299 "2014-01-03T00:20:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![occam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9bcb4/32.png) [@occam](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/occam)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2014, 12:20am UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/your-predictions/3299/1 "2014-01-03T00:20:12Z")
Consider, politics, society, biological science, physical science, physics, meteorology, music, education, nutrition, medicine, electronics, computers, psychology, and any other areas you can think of. Choose something that didn’t exist twenty years ago, but is common today. Think back to see if you could have predicted them. Now, in all those areas, what do you predict will be things or situations that will exist twenty years from now but which don’t exist today? Occam ---
**Author:** ![bigandrewm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@bigandrewm](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/bigandrewm)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2014, 4:48am UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/your-predictions/3299/2 "2014-01-03T04:48:02Z")
Artificial tendons ---
**Author:** ![lois](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5f8ce5/32.png) [@lois](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/lois)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2014, 7:55am UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/your-predictions/3299/3 "2014-01-03T07:55:45Z")
> Consider, politics, society, biological science, physical science, physics, meteorology, music, education, nutrition, medicine, electronics, computers, psychology, and any other areas you can think of. Choose something that didn't exist twenty years ago, but is common today. Think back to see if you could have predicted them. Now, in all those areas, what do you predict will be things or situations that will exist twenty years from now but which don't exist today? Occam Nearly everything will be lighter, smaller and more powerful, except television screens, which will be bigger. Cars will be electric. People will be less religious and there will be more atheists. People will be able to marry the partner of their choice and everyone will wonder what all the carrying on was about. Marijuana will be legal in most states. On the down side, there will be another hundred conspiracy theories being cooked up and people will still be arguing about free will. ---
**Author:** ![george](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/71e660/32.png) [@george](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/george)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2014, 12:48pm UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/your-predictions/3299/4 "2014-01-03T12:48:05Z")
More links between viruses and cancer, Homo erectus no longer considered a different species from us, China engineering babies with higher IQ, and the Republican Party being certain they can never win the White House again. ---
**Author:** ![thevillageatheist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/85e7bf/32.png) [@thevillageatheist](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/thevillageatheist)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2014, 1:50pm UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/your-predictions/3299/5 "2014-01-03T13:50:41Z")
> More links between viruses and cancer, Homo erectus no longer considered a different species from us, China engineering babies with higher IQ, and the Republican Party being certain they can never win the White House again. Definitely, with the clowns they're considering to run against Hillary. Maybe we could engineer politicians with a higher IQ? Cap't Jack ---
**Author:** ![hazelnut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/bbce88/32.png) [@hazelnut](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/hazelnut)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2014, 3:20pm UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/your-predictions/3299/6 "2014-01-03T15:20:59Z")
In the next twenty years? **On the positive side:** War in Afghanistan will end AIDS will likely be cured Advances in artificial organs, extreme surgery Another political party starts to become dominant in USA Less vehicles on the road in USA Locally produced foods become more common Higher education will begin to loose appeal among middle class Suburbanisation decreases Lifelike sex robots Traditional sex roles make a comeback **On the negative side:** Obesity and it’s related disorders will become a huge public health issue USA will be in another mid-east conflict Ghettoisation will become more widespread Increase in racial strife Increase in organised crime Fossil fuels still big problem Wealth gaps increase Anti-intellectualism more rampant