20 years from now.

[orangeban]

20 years from now those darn kids will be runnin' round on my lovely cyber lawn with their space boots and digi-hats or whatever it is those youngsters be using! Back in my day we just had electronic game boxes that connected to the televisional viewer and we were happy damn it! Kids thes... er, or rather, kids in 20 years barely ever go indoors, it ain't natural I tells ya'!

 

[Irridium]

20 years from now we better have fucking jetpacks.

 

[ImperialSunlight]

20 years (or less) from now Canada will be annexed into the US.

Ha. Not likely. We'll die before we are "annexed" into such a pitiful excuse for a nation.

20 years from now the US will have fully destroyed itself. Problably all becoming zombies and eating each other or something idiotic. Oh, wait!

(Not to ***** on the US, but when you insult another nation's sovereignty, you have it coming.)

20 years from now Japanese intelligent toilets will be subtly altering the dietry habits of the east to better promote fecal measurments and standards. This will cause the Japanesse fishing indusrty to crash. The insuing crash will allow the desimated whale population to recover, even thrive and eventually advance to such a point where their numbers are great enough to take the fight to land.

Hawai will be the first to fall, followed by New Zealand and finally Australia. It is here that the whales will the discover the true source of Australia's strange power: a black monolith who's radiation is responcible for all evolution on earth.

The find will cause the whale empire to fragment into an ideological civil war between The Whale Defense Inititive and the Brotherhood of POD. Human resistance will take advantage of the conflict and under the influence of the prophet David Ike, scuba diving suicide bombers will begin a campaign of destruction against the barrier reef.

Unable to maintain a war on two fronts, POD seperatists will decide to destroy the australian monolith to prevent it falling into the wrong hands. The attempt causes massive gloabal destruction and the almost total extinction of all life on earth. Yet whatever strange alien logic it is that drives the monolith, one whale is spared the destruction and brought into being high above the surface of an alien world. Along with a bowl of pertunias, the Star-Whale lives a short, but exciting life for the duration of its decent to terra firma.

This needs to be made into a game.

 

[Kungfu_Teddybear]

20 years from now people will be living on this planet.

 

[kortin]

20 years from now, we'll get Kingdom Hearts 3.

I love how this thread is now a parody thread.

 

[Worgen]

20 years from now bronies will have taken over and love and tolerance will be enforced by tank.

 

[Right Hook]

Hell screw 20 years. 20 months from now I'll be dead.

That's the spirit! This dude seems pretty awesome.

 

[deserteagleeye]

20 years from now the Cubs will have still not won the world series.

20 years from now every game franchise will have had an HD edition/collection, even the ones 15 years from now.

20 years from now I will have finally grown a twirlable moustache.

 

[A Satanic Panda]

20 years from now bronies will have taken over and love and tolerance will be enforced by tank.

Now THAT'S a battle plan I can agree with.

20 years from now I'll be 37

20 years from now nuclear weapons disarmament may be complete.

20 years from now science and medical technology will keep solving problems and improving lives.

20 years from now Valve will have made enough games to create the content needed for a dozen Half Life games. But not one will be released.

 

[righthead]

20 years from now, an influx of Indian-born engineers to the United States will cause a massive bridge surplus in the U.S. You will literally not be able to drive without going over a bridge.

Went to Japan once. This was already in progress over there.

 

[hooksashands]

20 years from now aliens will visit us and they will be frustrated how we still can't communicate telepathically and they in turn can't hear our speech and don't know earth sign language.

 

[DoomyMcDoom]

In 20 years time I'll probably have been dead for at least 10 of those years so why exactly should I care?

 

[IndomitableSam]

I'll either be retired or dead. I better be retired, anyway. ... Maybe 30 years. Fuck, that's a long time. I think dead might be better.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

I love you, Escapist. Most other places where something like this gets posted would have at least some people taking it seriously and believing it. But you guys go straight in with parody and debunking.

Spoiler: Cookies for all of you beautiful people!

20 years from now, those cookies will be incredibly stale.

 

[Jimmy T. Malice]

20 years from now, enviromentalists' attempts to prevent global warming will plunge the planet into a new Ice Age.

 

[Nickolai77]

In 20 years time, i'll be commuting to work, and not lying in bed as a student reading the Escapist forum.

 

[BaronUberstein]

20 years? I'm more worried about 65 years from now. Though in 177 years my home state of California will be it's own nation, so I guess that's a plus?

 

[brunothepig]

it will come to this.

Sorry Escapist, I tried to find one with video but I couldn't.
This thread actually prompted a discussion with me and a friend, about why 20 years is always the number used for alarmist "facts" like this. We figure it's far enough away to be "possible", or at least hard to disprove, but close enough that it's only really a generation. You'll probably still be here, plus some kids or grandkids. It's just weird how it's kinda the default for this stuff now.