YEAR 2029		total entries: 500, total votes: 17685
	2029 | Virtual Reality World-wide Network has been launched yesterday!     Finally what was a promise of a new way of living for the last five years has been switched on last night in the most impressive fashion: The VRWWN has been successfully launched. Just 25 years ago (August 2004) it was called the Internet, a prehistoric mammoth slow and useless for most of our parents, today is the state of the art centralised system that governs our homes and our entertainment with a very sophisticated globalize network. Every home in the planet has the ability to access in real time all information around the world. The system is equipped with a virtual reality time machine that reconstruct all data input on the network and gives possibility to people to go back in time and interact with historical events. In my house last night, while granddad was playing guitar with the Beatles, my kids were trying to stop the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster.The VRWWN is very impressive indeed, too good to be true. I wonder if somebody was watching me while shaving this morning… It doesn’t matter as long as granddad is happy!…   posted by Richard Journo , on 10 AUG 2004 17:40:35 (UTC+01)   rate this: 59.26% (total 64) / 40.74% (total 44), post/view comments:   2029 | what will happen     the same shit as every year   posted by s , on 10 AUG 2004 09:07:44 (UTC+01)   rate this: 63.55% (total 68) / 36.45% (total 39), post/view comments:   2029 | Year of my 50th Birtday!     2029 - its my 50th Birthday ! The small thought garden - celebration for some friends exceeds to an proclamation for the values of 1969 - sex drugs and rock n' roll! What began in my tiny garden beginns to become a new value for a future generation - a new century of pure hedonism! Let the party be started....   posted by be@r , on 10 AUG 2004 08:40:03 (UTC+01)   rate this: 55.26% (total 42) / 44.74% (total 34), post/view comments:   2029 | Armageddon had been come.     The Creator of our universe, mainly called God, will have cleaned up our world. Neither people who destroy our beloved enviroment, nor people who make war will be present at earth. Would that not be good? (The exactly year is not a prediction, but it should be happen in the near future.)   posted by dreaming_of_a_new_world , on 10 AUG 2004 09:35:48 (UTC+01)   rate this: 42.86% (total 30) / 57.14% (total 40), post/view comments:   2029 | Duke Nukem Forever released     After 32 years of development and ten generations of 3D engines, "Duke Nukem Forever" hits the shelves. Since the people still remembering the Duke Nukem series of computer games are now in their fities and sixties, the success is somewhat limited.   posted by Arno , on 10 AUG 2004 17:38:13 (UTC+01)   rate this: 57.38% (total 35) / 42.62% (total 26), post/view comments:   2029 | Two worlds     In 25 years, I hope we don't have to work for getting food and a place to live. This should be done by robots, which will do farming and building nice places for humans to live. Every human should have some basic supply. Everybody who wants more should do something useful, work on something, maybe to entertain others... Possible by the advancing technoligy I would think that in this time we are able to create huge virtual worlds, where all people can go and do what they want, be whoever they want, create whatever want, whatever they have in mind... So a lot of people can live out adventures, or explore the world (our world or some fantastic worlds created by some creative genius), learn new things (so much we have to learn today would be so much easier if we could easily visualize it)... and so on. Endless possibilities! ;-)   posted by Gregor Schwarzenberg , on 10 AUG 2004 12:47:22 (UTC+01)   rate this: 54.00% (total 27) / 46.00% (total 23), post/view comments:   2029 | Nothing     In the year 2029, nothing will have changed. We fight the same wars, have the same problems we have now en face the same dangers we face now. Maybe this is the worst-case scenario everybody is afraid to talk about: that this is ít. There will be nothing more. No more. Ever. Never.   posted by Jur , on 16 AUG 2004 13:29:04 (UTC+01)   rate this: 55.10% (total 27) / 44.90% (total 22), post/view comments:   2029 | the end     everybody will finally have reached and read the last page of the internet. An abundace of used and discarded copies (in amount matched only by Jane Fonda's 'aerobic workout') will be cheaply available in secondhand shops all around the world.   posted by m , on 16 AUG 2004 19:08:15 (UTC+01)   rate this: 57.14% (total 28) / 42.86% (total 21), post/view comments:   2029 | I, Robot ore youre a Robot ?     In the year 2029 we will have Robots as Police, or many other work and people without a job, like today. Personal Robots will come later.   posted by Rebecca Bock , on 10 AUG 2004 10:52:50 (UTC+01)   rate this: 50.00% (total 24) / 50.00% (total 24), post/view comments:   2029 | Newspaper     Newspapers will be displayed by lightbeam on a white sheet of paper. The data will be downloaded in the internet. The lightbeam will be displayed from a little box, which can be worn on a hat or similar.   posted by Chris Waikiki , on 11 AUG 2004 09:32:46 (UTC+01)   rate this: 46.67% (total 21) / 53.33% (total 24), post/view comments:   2029 | Could we only go back to 2004     People - old ones in particular - will refer to the years about 2004 as 'before the world went mad'.   posted by Asser , on 16 AUG 2004 22:22:15 (UTC+01)   rate this: 50.00% (total 18) / 50.00% (total 18), post/view comments:   2029 | Ads upcoming     Over my life so far, I've seen the rise of the internet and vast changes in advertising - I think these things will continue to change and evolve. Right now in advertising the move is towards placing products in areas that consumers are not aware of an inured to. Product placement in movies gets through to viewers more than TIVO skipped ads and scanned past paper ads and ignored web banners. Personal recommendations make a much stronger impact than traditional ads. These things will continue. In 2029, you will be advertised to in a highly personalized fashion, you will receive micropayments on every recommendation you make to friends, and product placement will be heavy in childrens literature and schools. You will find that accepting ads makes your life easier than trying to avoid it - discounts on products, credit card rebates, less expensive parking, special toll booth lanes on the roads etc.   posted by TM , on 16 AUG 2004 13:58:08 (UTC+01)   rate this: 52.78% (total 19) / 47.22% (total 17), post/view comments:   2029 | They can disguise a nuclear bomb as God.     | | | | [1]------------------------------> o . o o . . o_0_o . <-----------------------[2] . o 0 o . . o o . | \|/ ~ . o o. .o o . 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From An Englishman who is very impressed with your country   posted by Englo , on 05 SEP 2004 20:24:14 (UTC+01)   rate this: 37.50% (total 3) / 62.50% (total 5), post/view comments:   2029 | Wiederholung der Geschichte     Wenn wir den Neoliberalismus (Raubtierkapitalismus) auf unserem Planeten so weiterwerken lassen wie in den letzten Jahren und die Umverteilung des erarbeiteten Vermögens von unten nach oben sich fortsetzt, haben wir spätestens im Jahre 2029 eine Wirtschaftslage wie 1929 (oder ist die Wiederholung der Geschichte dann schon weiter fortgeschritten?)   posted by hermann gnigler , on 05 SEP 2004 23:56:44 (UTC+01)   rate this: 57.14% (total 4) / 42.86% (total 3), post/view comments:   2029 | First Brain Transplant     Miriam Georgina Rosamunda Wu-Fujimori becomes the first recipient of a transplanted braincage, with the full attached body included. Newspapers, philosophers and fifth graders alike debate whether this should be called a "brain transplant" or a "body transplant". Therapeutic cloning having been fully accepted in 2018, the body part factories receive a 50% increase in demand, as people around the world get ready to change to "this year's model".   posted by Javier Candeira , on 02 SEP 2004 08:14:25 (UTC+01)   rate this: 71.43% (total 5) / 28.57% (total 2), post/view comments:   2029 | gerfried stocker     still head of ars electronica   posted by yedd , on 03 SEP 2004 17:33:29 (UTC+01)   rate this: 33.33% (total 2) / 66.67% (total 4), post/view comments:   2029 | in the end.     the last invasive units have been terminated and driven out of central europe. consequently all signal transmission facilities have been removed all over europe. the trans-eural multioptional dataline should work again by the end of 2032. ... the weather has been rainy throughout the year with temperatures ranging from 10 to 15 degrees. ...   posted by olaf schmart , on 03 SEP 2004 10:38:19 (UTC+01)   rate this: 20.00% (total 1) / 80.00% (total 4), post/view comments:   2029 | DMV Tracking and Virtual Ticketing     With the mandatory use of Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and EZ-Pass in vehicles, and imbedded receivers in our roadways, The Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) will be able to track all the moves your vehicle makes. The DMV will issue summonses, and of course the money making fines, based on the data in your vehicles on-board computer or Vehicular Black Box (VBB). The VBB, similar to an airplane’s Black Box, records everything the vehicle does. Every time the vehicle speeds, change lanes or turns without signaling, tailgates etc, the data is stored in the VBB and the appropriate violation and fine is calculated. Instantly, your mandatory EZ-Pass will be debited the total amount of the fine. Privacy rights groups will not be able to successfully fight this law as the data collected will not be about a particular person or driver but about a non-human vehicle.   posted by Professor Seekmage , on 03 SEP 2004 16:06:58 (UTC+01)   rate this: 60.00% (total 3) / 40.00% (total 2), post/view comments:   2029 | We grow up.     I'm being truly optimistic, but by this time we have recognised the fact than we are all but a single race - human - on a small planet in a larger reality and as a consequence, begin to achieve our greatest potential - to behave as a mature species amongst (hopefully) many in the brilliant universe.   posted by Michael Lian , on 02 SEP 2004 03:57:58 (UTC+01)   rate this: 75.00% (total 3) / 25.00% (total 1), post/view comments:   2029 | Surgically Implanted Audio     The personal elecronics that people carry and wear today will be replaced by implants in or near the ears - so music, phone conversations, lectures, all audio reception will be done without external hardware.   posted by Paul Kennedy , on 02 SEP 2004 18:57:41 (UTC+01)   rate this: 66.67% (total 2) / 33.33% (total 1), post/view comments:   2029 | life on mars! ours!     the first man manned mission to mars lands and begins perfunctory exploration of the god of war planet. projects to economically explore martian subsoil start to develop, but no plans of massive colonization for the time being.   posted by mr_dartao , on 01 SEP 2004 19:42:40 (UTC+01)   rate this: 33.33% (total 1) / 66.67% (total 2), post/view comments:   2029 | Future is here     The groundhog will come out on groundhog day, people will celebrate New Year's eve on Times Square. TV will show reruns during the summer. FIlm starts will divorce, fall in love and cause scandals. People will still try to predict the future, mostly in vain. People will still forget, that the most important thing is that here and now, we are alive.   posted by Jussi , on 05 SEP 2004 13:59:09 (UTC+01)   rate this: 50.00% (total 1) / 50.00% (total 1), post/view comments:   2029 | Art will be free and social     Art will be free and a social force.   posted by norient , on 05 SEP 2004 19:01:32 (UTC+01)   rate this: 100.00% (total 2) / 0.00% (total 0), post/view comments: