What are your expectations for 2022?

[Tash]

cool let me know when you're down here and we'll go do something exciting!!

[Bob]

There won't be cell phones as there are today.  You'll have something similar but it will be able to do a lot more.  More like a communicator and personal assistant.

No more Windows like it is now.  (duh)  Probably no more Apple either.

[Barbosa-piano]

China will be significantly stronger.
The E.U. will experience rebirth as the world's superpower, as it unifies and strengthens itself.
The U.S. will be suffering from Social Security funding problems, Medicare, and all that.
If bird flu prevails, it could be a major problem in the future.
According to the U.N., poverty will be nearly erraticated (I don't believe so).
Luckly the world will not suffer nuclear war by then.
By then I would like to;
Be married. 
Be the president of Brazil
Have a child or two children.
Be a successful pianist and conductor.
Play Rachmaninoff's second piano concerto with a major orchestra (My dream)
Have a piano related doctorate.

[annoying_airhead]

I think the unemployment rate will climb - dug companies will probably make some pill where your body can have a full '10 hours' sleep, but in reality, you've only had 15 minutes.  That means the same people can work double hifts and stuff.  With this in mind, crime rate will probably climb too.

[Bob]

Cars will still run on gasoline, but there will be more options.  Gasoline won't go away that quickly. 

There will be more exciting revelations about our solar system.  More planets (and some will say they really aren't planets...), more details about what we know, more probles (or the probes we send now will be getting there by then)...

Some major diseases will be "cured."

There will be several major disasters.

People will live slightly longer than they do now.

Pollution will be more and more of a concern.

The climate and weather will be more erratic.

There will be something more in space -- either the moon, Mars, a space station.  At least the steps toward something more, like a base or colony.

The parents of a virtuoso will reminisce of how they met on an old webpage called piano forum.

[gorbee natcase]

Robots to work for me (musicaly challenged robots though

[Bob]

Another idea I heard is that society (the media) will be increasingly controlled by the individual rather than networks or business.  As technology becomes faster and cheaper, the individual person can produce their own media -- The individual control the content they produce and the content they view.  Since it was difficult to produce or distribute media several decades ago, the businesses that had the money where able to do that -- so those organizations were able to control how events were explained to the world.  Faster and cheaper means the individual gets more control in shaping perception of events.

[ahinton]

Still to have my wits about me sufficiently to be able to have expectations for 2037...

Best,

Alistair

[kony]

i think it's pretty obvious that by 2022, computers will be twice as fast, ten thousand times as large, and so expensive that only the Chinese can afford them.

[pianistimo]

with weather related incidents on the rise - i dont think 17 years is a very long time for a lot to suddenly change naturally.   as for man-made change -  on the news last night i heard that NAFTA was pushing forwards on a plan to unify the North American continent so that mexico, usa, and canada would freely trade and live together on one unified continent.  the only thing is that usa and canada have GDP's twice that of mexico.  and, so the burden of making everything entirely structured and fair would fall heavily on the shoulders of usa and canada.  (banking?  debt - we're still wondering about bank of america giving out credit cards to illegal aliens.  maybe the bank knows something we don't?  that a world system is already here?)

in some ways - i like the idea because then we wouldn't be spending buckoo bucks on a border which doesn't seem to be effective anyways.  and, we would have 3x the military.  but, on the other hand - we have different cultures that would need to be respectful of each other and not sabotage one another and allow 'points of entry.'  for instance - with the panama canal - our enemies could more easily come to port and enter. 

in any case - i believe before 2022 we will see much more 'world view' as we already see.  and if there hasn't been a world war by then - there will be an authoritarian figure keeping the peace.  systems of surveillance will be fully operational.  there will be many more restrictions and rules put into place to ensure that no country has any advantage over another.

[burstroman]

I will have departed.

[pianistimo]

are you sure?  you can't be THAT old.

[ihatepop]

The world will be entirely filled...with robots. Every household shall have at least one robot.

It will be possible to bring dead people back to life.

Teleportation

Time-travel

The TOE (Theory Of Everything) and GUT(Grand Unified Theory) will be produced.

Cures for even more genetic diseases will be found. Human life span increased dramactically.

ihatepop

[Bob]

Windows XP will be ancient, unsupported technology.


Sometime around the year 2022 a professional pianist will have their left hand cut off due to a car accident.  A prosthetic hand will be attached that works almost as well as a real hand.  The pianist will continue playing on, using the prosthetic hand nearly as good as a real one.  Years later, people will debate whether it's fair to use an artifical hand that works better than a real one.