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Guess The Future
Depending on opinion, we're either ages away or quite close to the end of the first decade of a new millennium, yet we seem not to have noticed how 'Buck Rodgers' far into the future we are. What do we make of it? As Britain's foremost authority on the study of popular culture (for surely that is our purpose, no?) let us put forward our predictions for what happens next.
Does the Kindle replace the paperback? Do we stream music and get rid of the physical format? What's after HD/Blue-Ray? 3D home cinemas? Will Lost ever end? Will someone unexpected win at the futball? Will they ever stop remastering old albums? Is the new Doctor Who going to be rubbish? Will we have to plug our brains into a giant, government-controlled, computer network? GUESS NOW!
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The future's bright, the present's grubby
The main problem with most science fiction is that everything looks so clean. That's because they'd only built the set the previous week.
Real life always has the grubbiness and varying adoption of new technology: I'd no idea what Bluetooth is, until a few days ago.
I remember reading a textbook as a child in the 1970s, which described the 1980s as science fiction territory. In a strange way, they've probably returned to that state.
Moon vs Space Odyssey
Felt The Word had it spot on with this one (hope it was The Word, or I'll look a buffoon) when they said the sets in Duncan Jones' Moon film felt as if the sets from 2001 had been lived in, or words to that effect. Owning an ipod and a cassette recorder seems a little precaucious.
jet packs and hover cars
markmiwurdz, they're just round the corner
made by Clive Sinclair
but we don't want them after the C5 fiasco
The new Doctor Who won't be rubbish...
It'll be slick & sexy & spectacular & 'the kids' will love it - quite right too.
But I won't be watching, because the new Doctor will be rubbish in comparison with the mighty David Tennant - a man who has so thoroughly inhabited the role as to make me cry real man-tears on more than one occasion. I, for one, will really miss him.
Opinion=Fact
I thought I'd miss Eccleston, I had no idea. Tennant has been a brilliant doctor, though I've found his assistants increasingly annoying. The Christmas special will be a sad day in this house.
"The Christmas special will be a sad day in this house."
Ditto.
I saw a repeat of the Doctor/Rose farewell at Bad Wolf Bay the other day - who'd have thought Billie Piper could cut it so brilliantly?
Martha Jones was a pretty good foil - I don't think they gave it long enough to develop the character.
Draw a veil over the Runaway Bride - see what I did there?
Britain becomes the World's number one 'pimp' economy ...
...because let's face it - we don't make anything anymore and our schools positively discourage a competitive nature. This means we are a nation of middlemen (and women) selling on to others, products and services made and owned by someone else. So, the future's bright, the future's 'pimped'.
...and the Jetpack will be made in China!
the saviour of our times
the iPhone will invent an app to prevent global warming, thus reversing the hundreds of years our species has spent raping the planet of all its natural resources....
oh wait, no it won't
The weather will become more extreme where it already is (i.e. pacific ocean, Africa, etc), the economy will continue in a state of fluctuation, space expeditions will be cancelled because no one can afford it anymore and chavs will become the majority of the population.
Sleep well, people.
You're a chirpy blighter BK!
I think your first point regarding climate change will push the cause for the neccesity of further space expeditions rather than an end to it. All being well, NASA should begin the construction of a lunar outpost before the end of the next decade while the Japanese are committed to researching and developing an energy-efficient 'space elevator' which would eliminate the economic and environmental damages of conventional shuttle launches. Meanwhile, Branson has spied the possibility of a couple of quid and Virgin Galactic should be go within as little as two years.
China
There will be a collasal shift of the world's power base to China. The only thing that will stop this is the current dominant nations (ie the US and Europe) joining forces with the likes of Russia and cash-rich Middle East countries and wiping China out. Probably on the (WMD-like) justification that China's growth is affecting the lifespan of planet earth.
Just a guess, like.
Hover Cars - deffo.
Made by the resuscitated Leyland Group in Longbridge and starring in the new MTV show "Pimp My Flight" - presented by Apple Martin-Paltrow and Simon Cowell.
It's in the Book of Revelations people!!!!!
Don't fret
The world is due to end in 2012, so not long now.