Future

Can future be predicted? Some will say yes, some will say no...some will say "Who gives a s**t?". I don't know the correct answer. What I'll try to do here is list some events which I think will come to pass ... say ...in 20 years from this day. So, this is how I think the world I know today will be 20 years down the line. If this post survives all those years, maybe we'll get a chance to see how much I got right!

1. India will win the Cricket world cup, at least once!
2. Genetics will be advanced enough so that we can modify ourselves the way we want. As a result a new regulatory body will be formed to monitor and control. However, as every rule has a loophole, there'll be illegal ways to get genetic modifications.
3. Technology will be evolved enough to have us use holographic projections of us instead of phones. We'll be able to visit and see people and places right from our living room.
4. Television will become 3D. We'll be able to experience virtual reality to its fullest extent.
5. Digital effects will make the directors create their own actors and actresses, without any noticeable difference from the human actors/actresses. This will also result in digital copies of famous actors/actresses, perhaps even the ones who are dead! And ofcourse, this will lead to illegal copies of famous actors/actresses, which everyone can just download from the net and use (not always with good intention).
6. Mental illness will increase. There'll be more mental patients than physically ill.
7. Nanotechnology will enable us to perform miraculous tasks, from deep space exploration to curing deadly diseases.
8. Mars will be conquered.
9. Indian economy will surpass US.
10. Cancer and AIDS will be curable. However, as always, there'll be new uncurable, deadlier diseases.
11. Drinking water crisis will emerge all the the world.
12. My friends will be married and settled all over the country and the world.
13. Me? Well....I've been always told that I've a short lifeline.