What will be the highest post count?
What will be the average post count?
What changes to/additional forums will there be?
How many of us regular posters will still be here?
What will be the common topic? (in exactly 10 years. Now it is war on iraq/bush/terrorism. what will it be on the 15th of June 2013?)
Answer these questions and/or add your own.
Ooh! Great topic.
Lets see, Handy should have a count of approx. 52851.
However, factoring in the advent of quantum computing and the ability to post into multiple dimensions of the SDMB, that number could be off astronomically.
Top Topics
Michael Ellis will be winning in the Nazi Mod Races.
You want to be a mod? Its an unpaid and largely thankless job. I wouldn’t want to do it!
I predict the SDMB will require members to pay a small subscription fee, and that would be no bad thing.
The “Quote. . .Unquote Game” will hit a record 1,000,000 posts.
Mastema, on the other hand, will never have had a topic go beyond 30.
Not that I’m bitter.
Maybe in ten years I might. I predict I’d be lousy at it.
See, in ten years there will be 90 moderators for (still) nine forums. So it won’t be as tough. 
To be more precise, in exactly 10 years from today at his current post rate of 10.14 posts per day, he will have 52795 posts.
I, on the other hand, at 27.37 posts per day, will have 104264 posts in 10 years from today.
I had a thought earlier this week. I told myself:
“Ya know, Lodrain (insert real name), if you live to be a hundred, which you probably will, considering how you live, you should start a thread to celebrate. Heck yeah.”
And I’m usually a lot more pessimistic than this, considering I have eighty-three years to wait.
“If LotR Were Written by Someone Else” will have 6 billion views.
I predict:
The Chicago Reader will acknowledge the value of the boards and buy is a MegaServer that will load threads before we even click on them.
There will be a record number of "Ask The … " threads.
I will have finally gone to a DopeFest.
We will have added TWO additional smilies.
And finally, all of the wonderful, witty e-friends I’ve made here will still be here sharing their pearls of wit and wisdom.
Roadwalker will wearyly post that he’s glad the 10th birthday party comming up will be that last.
I think
If post count is stored as an unsigned 16 bit number, ten years will put you at a mere 38729 posts, (mod 65535). Handy’s total will be unaffected.
The board will no longer function as we know it in ten years. Why, you ask? Because we will have discussed everything. Everytime someone dares to post a question, it will be met with a rolleyes smilie and some thing along the lines of “I knew it was about time for this to pop up again. Why didn’t you just do a search?”
Oh wait, that sounds like how it is now.
There will separate Cafe forums for Star Wars and Star Trek.
I will have an insaely high post count, even after the Great 2005-2007 Board Crash.
Legal marraiges will be performed on The Dope.
Polycarp and Esprix will come out victorious after Senator BZOOOOOO accuses them of reason and tries to impeach our duly elected presidential pair.
Star Trek will still be better.
In ten years, President Polycarp will be campaigning for his second term.
Eve will unveil her summer line of fabulous fashions, none of which I will be able to afford. 
Q.E.D. will have reached 1,000,000,000 posts, causing him to be elected King of Dope.
Cecil’s existence will be shown to be a hoax perpetrated by the government in an attempt to spy on Italy. Their exact method in doing this will remain classified.
And as for me, I’ll be nursing my third child. Each of my three children will be fathered by a different Doper. 
The SDMB mods will develop new Troll Elmination and Access Technology (TEAT) that will send a deadly laser through the troll’s computer screen at the first sign of trolling. Activity in the Pit will decrease by almost eighty percent.
This is either the funniest typo ever or a terribly amusing pun. Either way, chucklefest for me.
Yes, I meant reason. Did you ever read BZOOOOO?
In a little more than 10 years, there will be a massive influx of new Dopers who have just reached the minimum age limit of 13 years: Doper babies conceived during the Great Board Hiatus.