YEAR 2020		total entries: 500, total votes: 17685
	2020 | 2020, please be a better world to live     Now has the time come, in which we can look back to 2004 and we will see, that something very similar to the Holcaust has "occured" - The genocide in Dafur (Sudan)! Every day about 1400 people are dying there because of some murder, natural death, nothing to eat / drink ... Women and girls are raped all the time, everywhere there. Nobody is safe, and many, many people are completely blameless for that mischief. And what does the "modern", western world do? They won't see that nuisance and deny the most facts. Nice world we are living in, hm? Hope that 2020 is more public spirited, less greedy for power and generally less greedy... And what would be very enjoyable to see: Humans that can bethink of themselves and the true values in life! So long, yours forward looking guy   posted by Thomas , on 10 AUG 2004 10:18:54 (UTC+01)   rate this: 58.85% (total 123) / 41.15% (total 86), post/view comments:   2020 | DN4E - Part II     Duke Nukem 4 Ever will finally be released. But since almost everyone who waited for this game is now to old to play oldfashioned FPS, the game will be a complete commercial failure.   posted by TheBee , on 10 AUG 2004 11:42:17 (UTC+01)   rate this: 56.19% (total 59) / 43.81% (total 46), post/view comments:   2020 | Divx.com     Divx.com (the company) does not exitst any longer and the most Libraries became extinct I am 35 years old   posted by Gilli , on 10 AUG 2004 21:43:45 (UTC+01)   rate this: 50.88% (total 29) / 49.12% (total 28), post/view comments:   2020 | IPv6 on Mars     First IPv6 communication with Mars: video-streaming from Mars Electronica via multicast to Earth and Moon.   posted by ak , on 10 AUG 2004 12:02:38 (UTC+01)   rate this: 54.55% (total 30) / 45.45% (total 25), post/view comments:   2020 | Public nudity becomes fashionable     Advances in cosmetic surgery will encourage an "if you got it, flaunt it" mentality and -- combined with the historical trend toward more casual, more revealing dress -- will make public nudity not only acceptable, but fashionable. Trendsetting celebrities (as always) will start the trend; eventually, even the most conservative people will accept the sight of body parts once considered "private."   posted by , on 20 AUG 2004 21:32:14 (UTC+01)   rate this: 51.06% (total 24) / 48.94% (total 23), post/view comments:   2020 | Immortality     I think as well as not ageing we will be able to download ourselves onto a Network or into a brand new body   posted by Zac Rom , on 17 AUG 2004 08:16:44 (UTC+01)   rate this: 41.86% (total 18) / 58.14% (total 25), post/view comments:   2020 | Your personal TV channel     Everyone will be able to buy a TV channel frequency, pretty much like you buy an Internet address today, and broadcast its own reality show, family movies or pictures on TV. Popular channels will generate revenue from advertising.   posted by Barney , on 18 AUG 2004 19:36:47 (UTC+01)   rate this: 55.81% (total 24) / 44.19% (total 19), post/view comments:   2020 | US Dept. of Education abolished     This organization will be abolished in favor of privatized education. Taxes will be reduced so that citizens can choose their provider of choice. Classroom time will be limited to 2 hours / week because students utilize distance learning methods monitored by parents.   posted by Bill Gray , on 20 AUG 2004 15:45:14 (UTC+01)   rate this: 52.38% (total 22) / 47.62% (total 20), post/view comments:   2020 | IRS abolished in USA     The need for this organization is gone as we now have a flat tax.   posted by Bill Gray , on 20 AUG 2004 15:39:40 (UTC+01)   rate this: 51.22% (total 21) / 48.78% (total 20), post/view comments:   2020 | EPA abolished     In a continuing effort to reduce government overhead, this organization is reduced to zero and environmental concerns are managed by private corporations and the court system. Responsibility is the keyword.   posted by Bill Gray , on 20 AUG 2004 15:47:44 (UTC+01)   rate this: 47.50% (total 19) / 52.50% (total 21), post/view comments:   2020 | USA SSA abolished     Further reductions in government... the Social Security administration is abolished and FICA is no longer taken from your paycheck. Your retirment is your responsibility. All monies "donated" will be returned for investment into the IRA program of your choice. The US people are pissed because the US Gov't cannot pay interest on the monies collected.   posted by Bill Gray , on 20 AUG 2004 15:57:28 (UTC+01)   rate this: 51.28% (total 20) / 48.72% (total 19), post/view comments:   2020 | I've Seen This Somewhere Before     In the year 2020 we will ride in floating cars, we will have robot maids to clean up after ourself, our entire workload will consist of pushing buttons twice a day and we will be ruled by the up and rising corporation Spacely Sprockets making government deisions a sham. And dogs will be able to talk-although with speech impediments) so I can have a friend. Ro Boy!   posted by Matt , on 17 AUG 2004 16:19:12 (UTC+01)   rate this: 46.15% (total 18) / 53.85% (total 21), post/view comments:   2020 | the end of the animal.....     Tout les animaux qui ne rapporte rien a l'homme en argent ou en nourriture n'existe plus. les derniers animaux sauvage sont ceux qui se nourrisse de nos restes, notre merde ,et ils ont pris le dessus sur les autres espèces...... rats , pigeons et cafard sont les dernières representant des animeaux... plus un seul papillons....   posted by kallaghan , on 19 AUG 2004 14:09:49 (UTC+01)   rate this: 54.29% (total 19) / 45.71% (total 16), post/view comments:   2020 | 09|17     Matthäus Frost, geb. in München wird 40!   posted by kritikerderneuzeit , on 02 SEP 2004 14:06:47 (UTC+01)   rate this: 91.43% (total 32) / 8.57% (total 3), post/view comments:   2020 | Mediated Realities     The borders between reality and fiction, the mediated and real will be blurred beyond recognition.   posted by Rebecca Cannon , on 24 AUG 2004 03:42:22 (UTC+01)   rate this: 51.72% (total 15) / 48.28% (total 14), post/view comments:   2020 | UN reformed     as a result of the ten year anarchy (see 2011) governments fractured and became covert. this is the year when in a last ditch attmept to impose global law, these remaining government begin to formulate and structure a new united nations based on decentralised yet integrated power structures.   posted by bob jane , on 26 AUG 2004 10:09:49 (UTC+01)   rate this: 45.45% (total 10) / 54.55% (total 12), post/view comments:   2020 | SETI Predicts We'll Find ETs by 2020     "Shostak admits that there are myriad uncertainties surrounding his prediction, but he defends the basis on which he made it. "I have made this prediction using the assumptions adopted by the SETI research community itself." http://www.spacedaily.com/news/seti-04e.html   posted by Stewert Dent , on 01 SEP 2004 20:09:38 (UTC+01)   rate this: 26.67% (total 4) / 73.33% (total 11), post/view comments:   2020 | Hollywood goes out of business     With the arrival of perfect synthetic voices, photo-realistic CGI, and excellent physics models for creating and directing 3D worlds, movie-making will convert almost entirely to nonhuman actors...and I don't mean animation with actors' voices, I mean no humans except the story-writers and directors, whose artistic vision will come without the cost of paying actors or tolerating human attitudes on the set. Movies will be judged solely by their content, not the popularity of their cast.   posted by Keith , on 01 SEP 2004 20:36:17 (UTC+01)   rate this: 50.00% (total 5) / 50.00% (total 5), post/view comments:   2020 | European society gets multicultural     Because of the quality of life in Europe and the regress in birth rates that comes with it, more and more immigrants from all over the world will be needet here to keep the society working. This will lead to more tolerance and communication between cultures, but could aswell be a chance for right-wing groups to gain power …   posted by subdivivi , on 05 SEP 2004 21:01:32 (UTC+01)   rate this: 55.56% (total 5) / 44.44% (total 4), post/view comments:   2020 | Singularity - The Growth     The worlds largest computer, made from computronium, analyzes the sum of all human knowledge and decides that to solve the worlds problems it must expand itself as much as possible. Using computer networks it manipulates financial and economic data until the worlds economies are completely dedicated to the task of producing more computronium.   posted by Jerry McManus , on 01 SEP 2004 22:33:49 (UTC+01)   rate this: 50.00% (total 4) / 50.00% (total 4), post/view comments:   2020 | Loss of social skills     Personal communication devices become so advanced that there is no need for offices or personal meetings. As a result, lessons in personal interaction skills will be needed as part of the school curriculum.   posted by RH , on 05 SEP 2004 21:24:51 (UTC+01)   rate this: 71.43% (total 5) / 28.57% (total 2), post/view comments:   2020 | Loss of social skills     Personal communication devices become so advanced that there is no need for offices or personal meetings. As a result, lessons in personal interaction skills will be needed as part of the school curriculum.   posted by RH , on 05 SEP 2004 21:24:52 (UTC+01)   rate this: 60.00% (total 3) / 40.00% (total 2), post/view comments:   2020 | No important advances appreciated     People still die from starvation in Africa   posted by vito gonzaga , on 06 SEP 2004 02:08:42 (UTC+01)   rate this: 80.00% (total 4) / 20.00% (total 1), post/view comments:   2020 | Loss of social skills     Personal communication devices become so advanced that there is no need for offices or personal meetings. As a result, lessons in personal interaction skills will be needed as part of the school curriculum.   posted by RH , on 05 SEP 2004 20:36:34 (UTC+01)   rate this: 60.00% (total 3) / 40.00% (total 2), post/view comments:   2020 | The world will be completely open: Open Source, Open Content, Open Mind     Everyone shares information with anybody, as everything is open and freely accessible.   posted by an_open_secret , on 05 SEP 2004 19:31:38 (UTC+01)   rate this: 50.00% (total 2) / 50.00% (total 2), post/view comments:   2020 | Turing test passed thousands of times daily     Possibly brute force, but we will all interact without thinking about it with speaking and listening machines.   posted by Claus Dahl , on 06 SEP 2004 13:07:19 (UTC+01)   rate this: 50.00% (total 2) / 50.00% (total 2), post/view comments:   2020 | Aesthetics Takes Over Performance     People will eventually be fed up with technological improvements and will start buying what looks better, rather than what performs better. If this becomes true, I will be one of the richest men on earth.   posted by KAMADAN , on 01 SEP 2004 15:21:15 (UTC+01)   rate this: 25.00% (total 1) / 75.00% (total 3), post/view comments:   2020 | Mother's Little Helper     With each technological advance, we are furthered burdened by our preoccupation by a false sense of urgency. The whole world needs more time, instead of re-vamping our existing system of TIME. As always, we turn to a pharmaceutical solution. In an effort to help humanity, Big Pharma invest heavily into R&D into supplements that reduce and or eliminate the most mundane of human tasks (the sometimes very time-consuming and laborious act), the BOWEL MOVEMENT. Using existing know-how from proven medications that 'safely' eliminated the female menstruation cycle and our unending desire to love/be loved. We can now go about our days, foot-loosed and numbed-legs free. War rages on, humanity is no where close to that utopian ideal, but with this, we take one broad step forward. *The average North American spends 1 hour every day on the toilet. source: ABC News   posted by dc , on 01 SEP 2004 20:02:06 (UTC+01)   rate this: 75.00% (total 3) / 25.00% (total 1), post/view comments:   2020 | Entertainment and Health/Wellness are mostly appreciated     In the so-called civilized areas of the world, the unemployment rate will be still increasing, many people get to early retirement (voluntary or not) and the fraction of people above 55 is steadily growing. People are compelled to ask themselves what to do the whole day. So my preview shows them at spending much time to take care of their health and wellness (sport, beauty, "healthy" nutrition, weight, etc.) as well as to consume any kind of entertainment, i.e. movies, music, games, shows through all available channels at that time (Internet, TV, radio, etc.).   posted by Christa , on 03 SEP 2004 13:15:14 (UTC+01)   rate this: 66.67% (total 2) / 33.33% (total 1), post/view comments:   2020 | Space probe sent to an Earth-like planet     I believe within the next 15 to 20 years an Earth-like planet will be discovered somewhere outside our solar system. A space probe will proceed. It will, of course, take hundreds of years for such a probe to even reach it's destination; but that wont stop NASA from spending the billions.   posted by Victor , on 03 SEP 2004 14:30:01 (UTC+01)   rate this: 66.67% (total 2) / 33.33% (total 1), post/view comments:   2020 | western world will degenerate to a catastrophe     Western civilsation will breed generations of always frailer, sicker people, unable to socialisation.   posted by rustan , on 05 SEP 2004 17:57:41 (UTC+01)   rate this: 66.67% (total 2) / 33.33% (total 1), post/view comments:   2020 | western world will degenerate to a catastrophe     Western civilsation will breed generations of always frailer, sicker people, unable to socialisation.   posted by rustan , on 05 SEP 2004 17:58:37 (UTC+01)   rate this: 33.33% (total 1) / 66.67% (total 2), post/view comments:   2020 | Loss of social skills     Personal communication devices become so advanced that there is no need for offices or personal meetings. As a result, lessons in personal interaction skills will be needed as part of the school curriculum.   posted by RH , on 05 SEP 2004 21:24:31 (UTC+01)   rate this: 50.00% (total 1) / 50.00% (total 1), post/view comments:   2020 | Loss of social skills     Personal communication devices become so advanced that there is no need for offices or personal meetings. As a result, lessons in personal interaction skills will be needed as part of the school curriculum.   posted by RH , on 05 SEP 2004 21:24:34 (UTC+01)   rate this: 50.00% (total 1) / 50.00% (total 1), post/view comments:   2020 | western world will degenerate to a catastrophe     Western civilsation will breed generations of always frailer, sicker people, unable to socialisation.   posted by rustan , on 05 SEP 2004 17:58:36 (UTC+01)   rate this: 50.00% (total 1) / 50.00% (total 1), post/view comments: