The Future Conan
Late Night with Conan O'Brien has this running skit were they predict outrageous things to happen in the future but that's what's so great about the future or predicting it. No one knows what is going to happen and unless it comes true people forget everything that is said. My earliest future memory was in 3rd grade when our Weekly Reader news for kids predicted by the year 2000 smog would be so bad we would live under water. Well that's not even close to becoming true, we are actually more likely to live in space in a space station. Next was pills will replace food. That's not so far off due to people's obsession with diet pills. But not really substitutes for food. After that I gave up on predictions for awhile. The next notable prediction was made by Sarah Conner in Terminator 2, "On August 29th, 1997, it's gonna feel pretty f*cking real to you too. Anybody not wearing 2 million sunblock is gonna have a real bad day. Get it?." Now that prediction of course was solved by the end of the movie and it is truly doubtful to me that robots will ever take over the world solely because robots don't have souls or wills to live or fear of death or desire to conquer. These things would make sure a future full of killer robots impossible. And I love Demolition Man with Sandra Bullock, there are two future ideas in there that might come true. The first is: Lenina Huxley : I have, in fact, perused some newsreels in the Schwartzenegger Library. John Spartan : Hold it. The Schwartzenegger Library? Lenina Huxley :Yes. The Schwartzenegger Presidential Library. Wasn't he an actor when you... John Spartan : But how? He was President? LeninaHuxley :Yes! Even though he wasn't born in this country, his popularity at the time caused the 61st Amendment which states... John Spartan :I don' wanna know. President? Who knows after W Bush, Arnold might not look so bad. And the second was that Taco bell takes over as the only fast food chain. Now keep this in mind, Hispanics are the largest growing minority in America, so this could happen. Also they were very prophetic with the Gordita Revolution, it was an actual attempt at a fast food war! My next favorite prediction came in 1997 with the sighting of the Comet Hale-Bopp. An Arizona Indian came on TV and said this meant there were 7 years left in the world, that would put 2004 as the end. I really thought with the war this could happen. Now I read that is 2007 so we still have a few years before Bush gets us all killed. Now the funniest predictions I have seen as of late was Silvia Browne went on Montel Williams and predicted many celebrity break ups, including Jen & Brad Pitt. now that was a week before it happened and is really just gossip not prediction but it made me look at her website which is full of crazy stuff. The best for me was 2012 Aliens will finally revealed themselves to humans as they have been living on earth for years. Now if that's not funny there are plenty more on her site. So keep this in mind and the famous sunscreen song says, "Don’t worry about the future; or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind; the kind that blindside you at 4pm on some idle Tuesday. "