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Ahhh... Nice to see youthful Optimism is still alive and well these days http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

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Plankton will FINALLY steal the recipe for a Krabby Patty!!! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Seriously:

The US will establish a 'permanent' presence in the Middle East. Probably occupy Bahrain or some other Persian Gulf island but think Okinawa...

Oil will drop below $35 US / barrel. (What? you say!)

California will experience another large earthquake (>7.0 on the Richter).

The US and China will strain relationships taking each close to military conflict (involving Korea in some way).

A US passenger airliner will be shot down by terrorists (not blown up but shot down).

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LOL!! Optimism is over-rated, Cynicism is so much more fun! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif Hope for the best, expect the worst.

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The UN will kick out the United States, calling it a "rogue nation", and President Bush will say something to the effect of "so piss off, I never liked you folks anyway" http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

Over 1 million American citizens will defect to Canada http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/eek.gif

Probes will find extraterrestrial bacteria on one of the moons of Saturn or Jupiter.

I will be incarcerated and possibly tortured by the CIA in an undisclosed location as a threat to national security. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

A Chinese scientist will successfully clone a human... and promptly have the clone (and possibly himself) executed by whoever supposedly goes around enforcing the one-child-per-family law (is that law really enforced or is it just an urban legend? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif)

The Hubble Space Telescope will be used to discover a tenth planet orbiting the sun, thereby extending its life ANOTHER ten-plus years beyond its design parameters due to the immense publicity http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif

Aaron Hall will come from 10 years in the future to give his present self the code for Space Empires X, thus saving himself years of work - OK, I lifted this one right out of the Last episode of Voyager, so sue me http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

Master of Orion IV will be announced - published by Microsoft, for the XBOX 2, to be released no earlier than 2009 http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/eek.gif

Some starving graphic designer will invent something that revolutionizes human/computer interaction as much as the mouse did, only to have it bought up by Microsoft for $5,000 and a lifetime supply of upgrades to MS Paint http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

Wings 3D will go commercial http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

The lead developer of Stars! Supernova Genesis will go insane / commit suicide / do something completely wacko out of desperation at never getting his game published.

The GPL and LGPL will be declared illegal in much of the Western world. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

Washington DC will be nuked by terrorists during a joint session of Congress; in news polls, over 15% of Americans will call the event "not entirely bad" or "actually an improvement" http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

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Doesn't the US already have a permanent presence in Kuwait?

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I'm not familiar with those acronyms. Can someone give the full name/phrase?? Thanks

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These acronyms are interpreted in slightly different ways by different people, but they refer to 'Open Source Software'.

Gnu/General Public License

http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

Lesser/Library Gnu/General Public License

http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lgpl.html

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Fidel Castro will die, either a new dictator will fill the power vacuum or there wil be riots and a civil war, US will send troops, chaos ensues, whoever's left forms a new crappy third world government, Elian comes back to the USA and plays XBOX withthe fisherman dude. Most likely the former

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Mostly all negative predictions.. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

I predict that the economy will continue to grow and I will make as much money as I did in the 90's. OH brother was that ever a ****load.

I predict that terrorism will loose some of its appeal and hopefully lesson

I predict that someone will set off a nuke in Mecca during the holly days of the pilgramage. Ok so this one is negative.

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Oh I know, I'm extremely Cynical http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif I think everyone will look back at our generation and probably class it as one of the hallmarks of our time http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif