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

I'm ready for 'em

hang on a minute did someone say something about steps spliting up i sense some insider information!

I predict I will graduate college with a mechanical engineering degree just in time to find out no one wants to hire mechanical engineers anymore.

Wampus

tell me about it.

I predict, that all children born in 2002 will be named Bob, Hannah, Anna, Lil or "madamImadam".

No, surely they'll be called Harry, Frodo, Arwen and Bilbo!!

I will get fatter despite being on a diet all year.

k

In 2002:
The UK will begin proceedings to adopt the Euro as it proves to be an almost complete success, with only a few inevitable glitches. (good)

The USA will kill Bin Laden (good), although they may not realize it until a month or so later, and think that the problem is solved. A couple of months later, a suitcase nuclear weapon (these do exist and are known to be missing) will be set off in the vicinity of a major sporting event (Superbowl?), killing tens of thousands (bad). A sensible solution will be discovered to the whole terrorism problem, and everyone will kick themselves for not seeing it before now (good). And no, I have no idea what it will be.

The UK will continue to sink slowly towards a Recession which will peak in 2005, just when I come out of Uni. (bad)

Ian Duncan Smith will continue to flounder around until everybody realises that the LibDems are better in every way, having real opposing policies, etc. (good). Hopefully, the Tories will split into Euro-sceptic and Euro-phile parties, making the LibDems the main Opposition party.(good)

Star Wars will top the tables in gross takings in the summer with their new film, despite it being not particularly good.(bad, I suppose). Meanwhile, Hitch Hiker the film will begin filming for release Summer 2003.(good, I think)

The pop industry will continue to plumb new depths of capitalist, market-pleasing pap (bad). A number of good bands will release good singles and albums, which will hover nondescriptly around 19-21 in the various charts.(bad)

I forget who it was, but someone suggested that musical tastes (in the UK, any rate) work on a 13-year cycle, thus:

1963 - Merseybeat
1976 - Punk
1989 - Baggy
2002 - ???

Every couple of years, Latino, especially Spanish guitar, comes back around. I think that means 2002.

people will continue to be deeply stupid

i will fail my driving test

i will try to get into college

i will spend half my life on the bus and the other half at the bus stop







why did i bother to get up on new years day.

is it possible to stay in bed for a whole year?

FABT

Was baggy the big musical change of 1989? Surely it was the popular embrase of House. And 1977 was the year of Punk really, and 1991 had the grunge / alternative boom so maybe it's a 14 year cycle and we've all time to form bands and get in on the new musical revolution...

What kind of musical revolution willit be, though? If we all start forming the wrong sort of bands, we'll be high and dry come 2005.

hmmm 2002 ok well with all my experince reading the future here goes my ummmm prediction

The US will be blamed for any problems that creep up anywhere in the world..anywhere they send there military they will blamed for doing something naughty and where they don't send anyone they will be yelled at for doing nothing....someone will stub there toe somewhere and say damn those pesky americans....All will come to a point when the Americans finaly pull out of every where and stop talking to everyone..no matter how many messages are left on the White house Answering machine...The American people finaly set up a layoff in congras and the ones that stay get there pay cut in half....Fuel cell cars are finaly figured out so the price of gas drops to the lowest ever...all the oil prodcing nations go broke and then blame it on the US causing a increase in US forine policy...they still don't answer the phone at the white house....NASA keeps working on the Space station and keeps lines of comunications open between them and the rest of the particapents...Palistine and Isrel's leaders sit down and start talking...both relise that the US is not going to help either one and they decide heck this is just Isrel pulls out of palestine...palestine gets all set up...at this point Iraq decides to start a war with both becuase they got bored....someone will blame it on the US....India and Packistan will go to war with each other..within 2 months as the world looks on shocked they give up leaving many many dead and devistated...people around the world blame the US.....The Euro takes off very shaky like...but actuly works out and makes trading a little easier in Europe....The queen of England (hmmm don't know too much about her) decides to retire at 102...she moves to a nice little island and is reported to have a 25 year old lover...The new king (again not sure how this works out) Charles changes his name to Rupert so you have a King Rubert.......


ok so I might be totaly wrong but....I can just see this answering machine at the white house with the little message counter blinking at 23,000,000.....

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Re: music

I don't really know enough to be sure, but I think the year is supposed to mark the arrival of the new style, not necessarily it's greatest year. Those mentioned affect the music produced over the next few years (for example, Baggy lead to the more famous Britpop) and I'm not sure that the same can be said for House.

On the other hand, whoever made the original observation may have been talking cobblers.

ooooh, here's a prediction. cadbury's will go out of business due to a dramatic slump in the sales of roses chocolates.

independent sources later discover that the dropping of strawberry and orange cream chocolates which caused this slaes slump was initiated by a campaign for better treatment of strawberries and oranges which were being grown under forced conditions and not allowed out to play at all. teh camoaign was organised of course, by someone anonnymouse but everyone blamed the americans anyway. nestle took over the world and because they controlled the history books it was never realised that they were the ones who had stared al the problems for cadburys.

FABT

hmmm Does that mean that LHG is a plant in that company




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Cobblers it is.

So, how accurate have we been so far? Any new ones for the rest of the year?

I was wrong, wrong, wrong. Yay!

Well I'm right about Ferguson.

No sign yet of Bin Laden, could still be at Wai Kiki. And he did see Arsenal win the league.

Did I say Camilla Parker Bowles would become prenat, wrong CB most have got her mixed up with Cherie Blair, poor love.