The Future Soon (with all due respect to Mr. Coulton)

In ten years there will be rocket cars, but of course no on would use them when teleporting is so much cheaper and easier. We will hover along perfect glass walkways adorned with floating illuminating orbs.

Really? 10 years? I can't see things changing all that much. If Casternova is right then MMO's will take off and I'll have my dream job of creating game art professionally. The government likely won't change all that much in 2 and a half presidents. Digital games will hopefully be protected as speech, and games will be simply accepted to have a voluntary self regulated rating system like film.

The real fun of this assignment though comes from the wild speculation about the internet; and if our reading has thought us nothing, it's that wild speculation is the way to go. So We will browse the internet as Avatars, with privacy settings that allow a figure to be anonymous until identified. Anyone on a website could talk with anyone else on that website, and discuss it's content. Perhaps spaces could be established where users could chat, I think I will dub them "chat rooms".(For those of you who did not read, Casternova speculates how players will be represented by "avatars" in the future)

Bottom line is not much changes in 10 years. We will think the fashion, technology, and music from the previous 10 years will be laughably bad, and insist that the current generation of fashion, technology, and music is truly inspiring and fantastic. That pretty much sums it up.