h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Forget the relatively predictable next twelve months. Those with true foresight will be able to predict with accuracy what's going to happen in 2007.

Go for it!

Scotland will win a major sporting event (preferrably the Six Nations).

Sadly, another country with, ahem, WMD, will be invaded with Britain being draged blindly along behind, fully expect there to an attemp on George Bushes life, as even Americans start to turn against him, even if he has already left office by then.
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.....X.Factor will be staged for one week in a small house with contestants selected to cause arguments, and for another week in a bit of jungle a couple of hundred yards from a luxury hotel, where the contestants will parachute in to give the illusion of deep jungle and danger, all this to drag the last vestige of interest from an already dieing TV format.

Murder will be made legal.
All religions will come together to decide the one true faith. In a bizarre turn, they agree on Hinduism.
Heroin will become the new go-to drug for anyone with a slight headache.
Babies will be born clothed to avoid any scandals with paedophile doctors.
George Bush and Tony Blair will physically merge to become Gony Blush...and then will convert to Hinduism.

Pope Benedict dies. Ariel Sharon becomes Supreme Pontiff.

President Cheney decides to drop the constitutional law on 2 term presidents.

Pat Robertson becomes the U.S. government science advisor. Teaching of evolution immediately banned as a capital offense.

China invades Japan

Kurdistan and Shiastan (formerly Southern Iraq) officially recognised by the United Nations.

Major volcano in Iceland.

"President Cheney" : probably the scariest two words in the English language today...

I will have a baby (it says so in our budget spreadsheets).

The prophercised return of nighthoover will be realised.
A relitively new researcher on the site will be banned for life following a month and a halfs wrangeling on site,.
The organising comittee for the UK olympics are all sacked following allergations of bribery coruption and general totaly incopetant actions.
I move house, and buy a new guitar.

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Now *that's* organisation!

Glad to see this thread has been taken in the spirit inteded

A couple more:

I will finally get round to learning how to make my own LARP weapons.

I will finally get round to doing the washing up *without being asked*!

The latest box office smash will be Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. It will be beamed directly into people's homes without the tedious need to leave the comfort of the sofa and venture outside to the 1 remaining cinema in the county.

No-one ventures outside any more!

I will study to be a Midwife, only to find myself 3 years later without a job, and therefore prediction for 2010: My family and I will move to Australia.

Microsoft will build a giant robot which they will use to destroy their competitors. Unfortunately it will crash immediately after activation and its left arm (with built-in death ray) will be unusable until they release service pack 2 which will disable the software which controls the legs.

Would it be called WindowsDeathRobotXP by any chance?

The world would be a better place to grow plants, 'coz the Icelandic volcano will cover Europe with ashes after its first erruption.

The martians will send Beagle 2 back.

I will be 2 yrs older.

The prophesised USA civil war still won;t have happened.

The world will be just the same as it is now, except a few roles will have swapped around a bit.

China's economy will continue to grow and scare the heck out theUSAians.

The house market will go up
The house market will do down

Several politicians will be involved in big scandals and be forced to resign. at least half of them will be David Blunket, thus setting an all time record for being sacked from the same employer.

Those sacked will be replaced by people even worse.

There'll be another big war. It may or may not involve nukes. But it will be in the middle east. Somewhere.

Ikea will start selling flatpack space stations.

"Those sacked will be replaced by people even worse."--> That's not a prediction, that's a law of nature.

Fair cop!

It will be confirmed that the Star Wars saga is in fact based on a true story.

Gary Glitter will make an astonishing musical comeback.

The Vietnam war will happen again in the exact same way as last time.

We will live through March twice in a row.

Keith Richards will swim the Atlantic Ocean.

George Best will make yet *another* miracle recovery, go down the pub and be ill again within weeks.