YEAR 2010
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2010 | New media officially becomes old

 
  New media officially becomes old.  
posted by Ian Brown , on 10 AUG 2004 02:06:57 (UTC+01)  
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2010 | Hard Disc Drives exceed 10 Terabyte

 
  Looking at the last 20 years a permanent trend of doubling mass storage capacities in 3,5 inch drives every year can be seen. In 2010 a standard drive built in a consumer device will exceed 10 Terabytes, allowing users to store years of music and video. Assuming a "library" capacity at home there will be better ways of storing and retrieving wanted information, not as today in using a file system but more database like. Also your personal music and videos will be backed up through the internet in a distributed but encrypted manner, so that data loss is minimized.  
posted by synczero , on 10 AUG 2004 08:58:36 (UTC+01)  
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2010 | DN4E

 
  3drealms offically sets an inoffical releasedate for duke nukem 4 ever  
posted by helium vola , on 10 AUG 2004 11:36:12 (UTC+01)  
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2010 | German Soccer Championship

 
  Borussia M´Gladbach will win the Championship in the year 2010 and also the next 3 Years.
Why? They have young talents, good managmanent, a new stadium (paid already, the Name is not sold yet) and every year they got a positive balance.
Furthermore the team has a lot of supporters. Borussia Dortmund also has a lot of supporters, but the next 6 Years will be the same as the last 6 years of Fortuna Düsseldorf.
 
posted by PillePalleKing , on 10 AUG 2004 08:55:22 (UTC+01)  
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2010 | CDs become obsolete

 
  the audio CD format is not longer the dominant
format for commercial use
 
posted by , on 10 AUG 2004 19:21:28 (UTC+01)  
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2010 | documentation and history

 
  documentation raises its level of quality for long time storage. optical holographical storages which can resist radiations will be the base of our records. the technique is just invented but is still too expensive.  
posted by javatar , on 10 AUG 2004 08:29:11 (UTC+01)  
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2010 | HAL9000

 
  HAL9000 will broadcast "ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDINGS THERE"  
posted by ak , on 10 AUG 2004 11:53:17 (UTC+01)  
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2010 | bike-computer becan more like PCs

 
  bike-computer-units became the size of poststamps and smaller.they have gigabytes of space, are programmabel and use datas via internet, handy or IR. So its no problem to have tv, radio or gps-datas on them. Fouldabel displays show roadmaps or television by the way.  
posted by ernst wenzel , on 10 AUG 2004 22:38:24 (UTC+01)  
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2010 | Devastating Flood

 
  A devastating flood will destroy more lives and homes in the Netherlands than it did in 1953.  
posted by DJ Wheely , on 16 AUG 2004 21:52:28 (UTC+01)  
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2010 | The USA

 
  The Nonunited States of America will no longer be considered the "strongest" country, and will start a gradual decline, and then will steady out, leaving Japan and China as two strongest countries. America will slowly become home to stealing Chinese jobs years later and rise again, fall again... and the same with all other countries, creating a perpetual somethingorother.  
posted by KWess , on 17 AUG 2004 16:23:01 (UTC+01)  
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2010 | a new start for poorset countries.

 
  the richest countries finally dicover that poorest debt is bad for world economy and clean debt after promiss that countries will keep close eye keeping inflation low.

within 5 years the growth of world ecomony is risen with 10% each year.
 
posted by pheloxi , on 21 AUG 2004 21:37:23 (UTC+01)  
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2010 | ashes

 
  new york city will be a pile of rubble.  
posted by winston , on 17 AUG 2004 16:09:07 (UTC+01)  
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2010 | Can you hear me now?

 
  Cell phones will become obsolete as they will be replaced by computer chips installed in a person's earlobe and behind their ear. Another tiny chip will be installed under the chin which will serve as a reciever.  
posted by The Sine , on 17 AUG 2004 16:12:20 (UTC+01)  
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2010 | Implanted chips will locate people, and pay at the cashier

 
  Now, there will be a universal miniature chip implanted in the arm of every person that wishes to.
No need for wallets to hold ID's, drivers licenses, visas, hospital emergency information (such as allergies and patient history), can serve as a cell phone too, it will even be useful as a credit card, no need to carry cash anymore. also available with GPS just in case people don't know where you are.
 
posted by Ramses G , on 22 AUG 2004 22:18:20 (UTC+01)  
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2010 | Europe of Nations

 
  European Union of States becomes an Union of peoples, composed viz. of actual Spanish & Italian regions, German lander, Belgian languages groups, British four countries.  
posted by Vincenzo Porcu , on 16 AUG 2004 07:26:49 (UTC+01)  
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2010 | end of days

 
  great tribulation  
posted by , on 19 AUG 2004 10:28:37 (UTC+01)  
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2010 | 01 | 01

 
  Agenda 2010 for Germany is completed now.  
posted by kritikerderneuzeit , on 02 SEP 2004 14:08:44 (UTC+01)  
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2010 | MICROSOFT wil END

 
  A Microsoft vai acabar...
O monopólio da Microsoft vai terminar.
Com advento do "opensource", a Microsoft não vai resistir à nova concorrência dos softwares grátis... Será uma liberdade total, sem ser preciso actualizações frequentes para aceder aos conteúdos informáticos...

Vai ser uma imensidão de liberdade

 
posted by cloudsidea , on 16 AUG 2004 19:25:21 (UTC+01)  
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2010 | Intentional Communities Reach Critical Mass in the US

 
  Consultants discover and begin targeting the submarket of young, upperly mobile, cooperative community(YUCCY'S) dwellers and develop products customized for them. Popular items become low-cost, build-it-yourself sweatlodges and living cabins; fireside, folk sing-a-long mp3's; vegan heat and serve community meals and small hemp-oil powered farm equipment. Subscriptions for wireless broadband explode as well as industrial washer/driver and kitchen fixtures. Conflict resolution seminars are booked solid.  
posted by Brian Judy , on 18 AUG 2004 10:26:23 (UTC+01)  
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2010 | universe is simulated

 
  the creation of the universe is simulated successfully in a large scale supercomputing facility. this disproves the input of gods into creation, causing social uprising on a global scale to commence. this culiminates in the period beginning 2011 later to be known as the 'ten year anarchy'.  
posted by bob jane , on 26 AUG 2004 10:20:46 (UTC+01)  
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2010 | Videogames go mass-media

 
  Video games will finally achieve the mass cultural status missing from the gamer-centric penetration situation today. Mass media will carry games as prime time competitive events on a global scale. Games will begin to be designed with interactive broadcast in mind. Mass-market marketing brands will emerge, and determine the next-generation of digital entertainment players, ushering in an as-yet to be seen seamless convergence between live, virtual, Internet, Personal Computing and Broadcasting.  
posted by Chee-Leong Lam , on 02 SEP 2004 05:06:24 (UTC+01)  
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2010 | 10 gigabit internet connections by 2010.

 
  NTT, Fujitsu and the Japanese Government are forming a working group to develop internet technologies that will hopefully allow homes to receve 10 gigabit internet connections by 2010.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/29/1429246&tid=95
 
posted by Stewert Dent , on 01 SEP 2004 19:46:32 (UTC+01)  
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2010 | First Space Elevator Attempt

 
  Ansari X Prize. Elevator:2010 will organize annual competitions for climbers, ribbons and power-beaming systems. In other space elevator news, researcher Bradley C. Edwards recently left the Institute for Scientific Research to work at two companies on materials and technology.

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/28/0223259&tid=160&tid=98&tid=1
 
posted by Stewert Dent , on 01 SEP 2004 19:50:28 (UTC+01)  
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2010 | politic is influenced by the word's biggest politic-community dol2day

 
  politc is mainly made in the internet using communities like the biggest one - dol2day  
posted by Der Glunz , on 06 SEP 2004 22:27:35 (UTC+01)  
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2010 | Increased Social Interaction, Decreased Personal Contact

 
  Obvious.  
posted by Jimbo Raymondo , on 05 SEP 2004 20:20:33 (UTC+01)  
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2010 | Metaverse

 
  Finally the Metaverse will be there...a blend of game, entertainment and e-commerce within a virtual multi-user environment. This will be created by one of the largest corporation (not a game company) such as Sony or similar corporation.

 
posted by Pascal , on 02 SEP 2004 03:55:14 (UTC+01)  
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2010 | Singularity - The Genesis

 
  Computer circuits are shrunk to the size of molecules. Nanotechnology is developed that converts light and heat to electricity with maximum efficiency. These are combined to produce computronium, a new form of matter in which every atom and molecule is dedicated to digital computations.
 
posted by Jerry McManus , on 01 SEP 2004 22:32:05 (UTC+01)  
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2010 | Internal combustion efficiency

 
  The efficiency of the internal combustion engine will double in the next 5-10 years. That might sound like it is against basic physics, but wait and watch.  
posted by Sivam , on 01 SEP 2004 13:18:05 (UTC+01)  
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2010 | wireless

 
  wireless PC devices like keyboards and mice will exist in much larger numbers than wired parts.

Internet access will be available via high speed wireless metropolitan networks

 
posted by Chris Grundy , on 01 SEP 2004 16:32:43 (UTC+01)  
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2010 | Internet Maps

 
  So-called "site maps" will actually look more like http://www.1-900-870-6235.com then the current table-of-contents-style- listings. Maps will also be used to navigate the web.  
posted by Juan the Navigator , on 01 SEP 2004 23:21:11 (UTC+01)  
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2010 | Digital Photography

 
  a 12 megapixel digital camera will cost roughly $100 in adjusted 2004 dollars.  
posted by Keith , on 01 SEP 2004 20:46:18 (UTC+01)  
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2010 | american security inc.

 
  In response to the escalating threat of radical non-Arabic terrorist cells in America, President Cheney declares martial law in New York, Boston, Los Angeles and Washington DC, and signs a presidential directive allowing private security firms to operate as de facto homeland security forces within US borders. The largest of these, American Security Inc., reaches $1 billion in annual revenue and is listed on the NYSE.  
posted by genobaby , on 04 SEP 2004 05:37:33 (UTC+01)  
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2010 | informed materials will be the new biotechnology

 
  the knowledge that every material emitts waves, that interact with the surroundings will form a new biotechnology. This will adress the sixth sense of human beings and we have to take care about the materials to surround our bodies.  
posted by the swan , on 04 SEP 2004 12:19:04 (UTC+01)  
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2010 | Conehead

 
  everyone will be wearing a conehead tagged to GPS so that everyone knows where no one is  
posted by , on 04 SEP 2004 13:17:26 (UTC+01)  
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2010 | Bush ruins the world

 
  Dodgy George Bush Jr foreign policies create more problems....resulting in more wars across the world.  
posted by Rasan , on 03 SEP 2004 17:31:45 (UTC+01)  
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2010 | Dead tree publications become extinct

 
  Thanks to portable internet-ready devices, printed publications will cease to exist except as objects of antiquarian or Luddite interest, or in remote areas of the globe that lack modern technology. All mass communication will occur via digital means.  
posted by Mark Gisleson , on 03 SEP 2004 20:18:51 (UTC+01)  
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2010 | Ars Electronica

 
  the ars electronica festival has no installations anymore.... only symposiums!!!!  
posted by twinky , on 04 SEP 2004 17:42:48 (UTC+01)  
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2010 | Cable companies will listen to you through your TV.

 
  The TV is comprised mainly of two sensory related technologies, specifically sound and sight. One is audio (sound) the other is video (sight). The microphone uses a membrane to detect sound vibrations from our voice and converts it to an electrical signal and is sent through the cable lines; then the speaker also uses a membrane to convert the electrical signal back to sound which we hear. Because of this, a microphone can be used as a speaker and a speaker can be used as a microphone. With the use of their addressable digital cable boxes, cable companies will pinpoint your TV and its speaker!
It will be used as a marketing tool, by the cable company, to determine the "best programming for you" based on your positive/negative verbal outbursts and by politicians to best target their campaign money.
 
posted by Professor Seekmage , on 06 SEP 2004 23:14:40 (UTC+01)  
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2010 | WWW3

 
  There will be an amenendment to the constitution, allowing ppl who have lived here(but were not born here) to run for president. Arnold Swarzenegger will run for president and win. Then he will fail in negotiations with Korea, and we will have world war three....  
posted by Lazzlo Verathi , on 03 SEP 2004 22:01:26 (UTC+01)  
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2010 | Middle East Nation become a worldpower for peace.

 
  Cyprus, Egypt, Isreal, Jordania, Libanon, Palestina and Turkye founded Middle East Nations.

they discovered that a lot of money wasted to war and people were surfering in the area so within 6 months after discovery of USA double standards the people in the region started a foundation for new middle east.

the first hurdle was agree on land, but they all agree it should be no borders, because the faster they could economicaly work to together.

there are still religious difference about some part of land, but new cooparations are making them intresing discusions.
 
posted by pheloxi , on 05 SEP 2004 18:04:52 (UTC+01)  
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2010 | LAN-Party

 
  The biggest LAN-Party of the world is celebrate with 10100 members at Stammersdorf in Vienna.  
posted by Stammersdorfer LANfreak , on 05 SEP 2004 15:36:34 (UTC+01)  
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2010 | Bill Gates founds the Microsoft Cooperativ

 
  Bill Gates realizes, that the future development and use of Microsoft is best guaranteed, if all users become owners of Microsoft: Each buyer of any Microsoft product automatically owns a cooperativ membership.  
posted by Anet , on 04 SEP 2004 16:38:22 (UTC+01)  
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2010 | HYDROGEN POWER FINALLY!

 
  After the completion of the California Hydrogen Highway, the first hydrogen powered vehicle enters into production for the mass market.

Gas stations are then slowly retrofitted with hydrogen refueling tanks and we slowly phase out gasoline powered vehicles.

FINALLY!!
 
posted by orangetori , on 02 SEP 2004 17:56:24 (UTC+01)  
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2010 | society

 
  Austria is more a unimportant subject, more importance is given to the person bezirkshauptmann or even bürgermeister. The matter for this is trought of give and take of the budget planning.
 
posted by justin rechzl , on 03 SEP 2004 12:52:21 (UTC+01)  
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