Probably nothing as spectacular as we'd like, at least not in our future. The things were were promised -- flying cars, cancer pills [or, rather, anticancer pills], sexbots -- we were all supposed to have these things by the year 2000.
The stuff we're now promised in the near future -- cerebral-implant video games, teleportation, sex bots -- will probably be close to coming to fruition shortly after we're all dead. I don't care how close we are to these things; we're not going to advance technologically as fast as we hope.
the best we've got
I think the government won't be too much different then it has been for the past decade, or the decade before that, or the decade before that. There will probably be more laws tho, so we've got that to look forward to.
The one place that will still be uncontrolled by government regulation will be the internet. I predict that there will always be a way to express yourself on the internet, no matter how many unenforceable rules are set in place. I also think that by 2019 over half the internet will be pornography, tho a significant amount of that will be fetishes so weird that they won't even be sexual in any way at all [expect a lot of tentacles and feces].
In 2019, I will probably be taking some quasi-futuristic electric-powered bus to the unemployment line. Not a flying bus or transporting myself thru a wormhole, but a bus not completely unlike the ones now. When I'm done spending my unemployment check on scotch, I can imagine myself entertaining passersby under the overpass for spare change. I can't imagine what my friends' jobs will be; I have no idea who I'll be friends with in ten years.
probably this guy
For my fellow classmates who go on to get jobs in the video game industry, they will be pretty busy, as game development is not going to slow down any time soon. Advancements in gaming will be limited only by our imaginations. Well, that and physics; we can't really get around the laws of physics.
What do some esteemed authors predict about gaming? I don't know, but I can tell you what Castranova thinks! Castronova made a bunch of predictions that have either already happened or are in the process of happening. For example, he predicts games will be EVERYWHERE -- but they already are. I can't think of a single modern-day electronic device that doesn't have some gaming capabilities.
He also spoke of these wildly imaginative things called AVATARS that will be implemented in all games, and will be fully customizable in their appearance and attributes. These kind of "predictions" make me wonder when he last actually played a video game.
this is some futuristic shit right here
What do some esteemed authors predict about gaming? I don't know, but I can tell you what Castranova thinks! Castronova made a bunch of predictions that have either already happened or are in the process of happening. For example, he predicts games will be EVERYWHERE -- but they already are. I can't think of a single modern-day electronic device that doesn't have some gaming capabilities.
He also spoke of these wildly imaginative things called AVATARS that will be implemented in all games, and will be fully customizable in their appearance and attributes. These kind of "predictions" make me wonder when he last actually played a video game.
this is some futuristic shit right here
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