Wow!
So nothing actually useful for the longevity of mankind, we’re fukt!
I’m going for super-crops, GM or completely artificial GE.
Weather controlling devices that at least give a small measure of reliability to rainfall patterns.
If not, enjoy all those toys for a couple decades folks 'cause after that it’s soilent greens.
Household robots that can use a vacuum cleaner slowly but correctly and wash clothes correctly.
Fembots.
Cars or robots that will drive themselves.
Electric cars with small trailers with gas generators for long trips. (Have that now, don’t we?)
Aging is slowed down quite a bit.
National health care files so that every doctor and hospital can access your file with your permission and see your history since the system started. Paranoids will be certain that the barcode skew number has encrypted date of Carousel.
Most forms of cancer are fully treatable if not curable. Herpes is still a problem.
Education will move at least half of all students along at their own pace.
Vast increases in electricity demand, fulfilled from wind, solar and nukes from across the border.
Cloud computing and artificial intelligence that is so fast that it can show contradictory FoxNews and Rush clips in real time, making Jon Stewart obsolete.
Not just President Palin, but President Willow Palin.
Weather can be reliably predicted 7 days in advance, but climate has raised sea levels worldwide by 30 feet.
The lawn on the national mall will still look like shit.
Marijuana will still be illegal.
Polygamist men will find out that each of their wives is cheating on them by being secretly married to the other polygamist men and that the total of illegal polygamists in America is less than 5,000 people, with 40,000 weddings among them. Facebook is how it comes to light.
The national stupid shortage ends.
Psychotropic drugs cure most mental illnesses, but Jerry Pournelle is not jobless, as he starts writing recipes for Parade.
Two Star Trek nerds hook up and get laid, using Facebook.
Sandra Bollock dumps Jesse James while at the same time stealing his mistress, Bombshell McGee from him.
Scientists figure out a way to rid humanity of the scourge of Dick Cheney.