I'm trying to think of a good way to organize this and I think I'll just make a list according to years into the future:
10 years:
-"Smart" power lines - allowing for a more efficient electricity grid.
-The beginnings of a networked highway system - allowing automatic-driving cars
-Increased Solar/Wind/Nuclear power...maybe Fusion Power?
-More online usage, perhaps increasing independent thinking
-Possible religious war in Iraq (may lead to more atheism). North Korea could be involved.
20 years:
-More efficient networked highway/road system
-Fusion Power more likely possiblity
-Global government in the making, perhaps online voting type system. I don't suspect there will be a single "world leader."
-Possible religious war
-First stable/livable Moon or Mars base
50 years:
-Perfect network of roads. All cars everywhere drive themselves
-Robots almost completely replace all human workforce in factories, etc.
-With almost all jobs replaced by robots, mostly unemployed people - I suspect there will be more high-end NASA researching, Artists, Corporate Biz. Stupid people unable to compete against robots will either be aided by the government or die out if the republicans have their way.
-More cyborgs (half-human/half-machine)
-Cyborg discrimination
-Hopefully religions are left with crazy nutjobs preaching in the alleyways
100 years:
-Wars and discrimination don't exist
-Advanced space exploration with Mars and the Moon being settled on.
-Possible human exploration of other far off gas giants and their moons (Probably not settled though).
-Evidence of life found on Mars or Jupiter's moon Io
-Fusion Power is a reality and widely used
-Possible virtual worlds where people actually live inside the computer via cyber brains
I'll probably add more possibilities and 200 years, 300 years, etc. later.
