• Sir David Attenborough appearing on QI
  • time travel + teleportation
  • brain-software (ie, instant translation, mind-reading and mind-control [with 'firewalls' and 'antivirus software' available too, of course], knowledge data-bases, dictionaries, scientific calculators, etc)
  • food-tablets / complete meal in pill-form
  • dragons (the flying, fire-breathing kind); alternatively: the reemergence of dinosaurs
  • the ability to make objects invisible
  • combined with time travel, the ability to watch the past on television like a sort of real-time history documentary; say, invisible satellites that somehow record video and transmit it to us in the future
  • the disappearance of those annoying facebook "like," twitter "tweet," google "+1," etc links at the end of every internet article on every page aside from thankfully wikipedia (oh god, now that I've thought it, it's only a matter of time...)
  • hell, the disappearance of facebook, twitter, google +1, et al. all together
  • the world deciding to go vegan (or, at the very least, vegetarian)
  • the world realising the beauty of logic, science, and rationality; organised religion disappearing
  • organ- and limb-regeneration in humans
  • the us deciding to stop remaking every successful uk tv show
  • the decline of consumerism / the consumerist mindset
  • cheap disposable razor blades
jan 14 2012 ∞
feb 5 2012 +