Loss of religion on a wide scale.
I realize people on this board aren’t worried about that - we’re not worried about SSM either - but the public at large, at least in the US, seems to think that the country will go down the crapper unless everyone is religious.
Again, the biochip implant & that getting it required a loyalty oath to Fearless Leader. And that FL’s name equaled 666 in both Hebrew & Greek.
Gee, those are funny-looking locusts heading this way…
;-D
Seriously, global warming & overpopulation.
For one that’s already happened within the last ten years: the “complete collapse of everything with Y2K” … that never collapsed.
Similarly, the fear of Y2.038K that’s bound to show up around 2030 in response to the Unix epoch rollover.
Consecutive searches without a 120-second wait.
Big Brother. Somebody mentioned *Gattaca *upthread. I think eventually genetics will dtermine who gets hired, accepted to school, how much they make, etc. Thirty years ago people were outraged that they had to take a drug test at work. Today it’s pretty commonly accepted. I think those kinds of screenings will continue to grow and become more and more accepted.
“You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.”
– Scot McNealy
Now, that’s pie in the sky nonsense. We’re centuries away from having the technology to allow that!
We might CURE those things, but I have difficultly believing that the people of the future will find it amusing that we were afraid of diseases that could kill us.
After all, we hardly find it amusing that people used to be afraid of smallpox.
That’s because Bubonic Plague is the funny one.
It is kind of hard not to laugh at groin-and-armpit buboes . . .
Hopefully people will eventually get rid of the fear that, somewhere, somehow, someone is having fun. That fear seems to drive so many of our laws.
What we’ll still fear:
Indeed, a boon to the stand-up comedians of the otherwise-grim 14th century.
“Is that a groin buboe, or are you just happy to see me?” 
Vaccines causing autism.
“Socialized medicine”.
The LHC making a black hole that swallows the world.
Safe prediction there. Our kids won’t be around to *do *any looking back if that happens.
Better get that Cold Fusion powersource working first, me boyo.
Yes, that’s what I meant.
Law abiding people owning/carrying hand guns, “assault weap:rolleyes:ns”, etc…
Bar/restaurant owners allowing smoking in their establishments (eventually only about 10% or less would so what the fuck were you crybabies bitching about? Oh, yeah, the “control everyone and everything even if it isn’t any of our business” thing.)
Hitting an asshole that desperately needs it (also known as spanking an insolent child).
Black business owners that don’t want to do business with whites. Korean business owners that don’t want to do business with blacks. White business owners that don’t want to do business with Martians. If people are so stupid as to ignore a potential source of income why should they be forced to in a free country? Why were our ancestors concerned about the income of bigots? Let’em starve!
Bans on selling alcohol on Sunday. Or after 9pm. Or at the YMCA.