Which of these do you think will still be around in 10 Years?

Cafe Society
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Paris Hilton - will kill someone while driving drunk and get sent to jail.

STAR TREK (any incarnation) - will never die. It will always have its hard-core fans and new fans.

Sanjaya - a non-entity to me.

Rosie O’Donnell - still around in some fashion.

Donald Trump - dead maybe.

Harry Potter - will never go away because the books (and movies) will keep entrancing new fans. Regarding the books, this time in history is the zenith though, and those who discover the books years/decades from now will mourn that they didn’t get in on the excitement at the time (I say that with my just-in-time experience, since I didn’t get into the books until after the 6th one was published. I would certainly be kicking myself if I had waited until all the movies were out to read the books).

Justin Timberlake - I can’t believe I’m defending Justin Timberlake. I never would have guessed I’d be in this position. I have never followed his music career and probably never will (it’s just not my kind of music and I’m more interested in female vocals anyway). I only know him from cultural osmosis and seeing his two most recent movies, where he surprised me to the core of my being. I’m convinced now that the people who are slagging him off are not moviegoers and haven’t followed his acting career. He’s a really REALLY good actor, much better than “serviceable,” and I would not be surprised in the slightest if he were one day to win an Oscar, maybe in his 30’s or 40’s. At the very least, if he keeps going at this pace and quality, he’ll get nominated a few times. It will surprise the hell out of people who only follow movies in the most shallow fashion (nothing wrong with that), and there will be jokes aplenty, wherein people like me will pop up and say, “hey, I take it you didn’t see Alpha Dog or Black Snake Moan back in 2007, did you? I knew back then that he was destined for a great acting career if he kept it up.”

Angelina Jolie - will still be around and beautiful and making movies. Even if she faded from public view, she’ll always be a mover and shaker behind-the scenes with her humanitarian efforts.

Reality Television - still around and killing brain cells.

CNN - still around and still irrelevant (as usual).

Fundamentalist Islam - Always. Nothing will kill the desire to rule the world.

Christian Right as a major political influence - Always. No scandal will kill the desire to rule the world.

Hillary Clinton - still around and in politics, though not ever as president.

The Amish - still around.

The Phelps Clan - still around and as looney as ever.

Tom Cruise - still around, still a good actor, still whacko, but happily married, Katie having come to her senses and left him, leaving him free to finally marry someone already brainwashed in the “church” of $cientology.

Gay Marriage (as a debate or as an institution) - Closer, but not there yet. Too many more old farts have to die off before it can become a reality.

Microsoft Windows - still around. Nothing will kill the desire to rule the world.

Ipods - still around though maybe not quite as stupid (let me change my own freaking batteries, willya?).

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Paris Hilton
I have no frickin’ idea, and neither does anyone else. Here’s someone who got famous for NOTHING (dirty video on the Internet, remember?), continued to be famous for nothing (big parties, reality TV time, rumors of this or that boyfriend), then became more famous by loudmouths realizing how ridiculous it was that she was famous for nothing and basically a whore…and repeating it over and over AND OVER. She’s become The Simpsons; there’s just no damn point in debating anymore. She’ll still be around in a decade. Or not. Whatever.

Star Trek
Doubtful. It was never enormously popular to begin with, and given how badly Enterprise or whatever tanked, it’s time is most likely past. In fact, sci-fi on the whole will probably be in a lull for quite a while (especially with the Star Wars saga over).

Sanjaya Malakar
Like I said on a previous thread, his problem is that he’s not ready. If he does the smart thing, i.e. graduate from high school, develop his singing abilities, and find friends who have his best interest in mind, and relax, he’ll most likely do fine. Other than that, it’s anyone’s guess.

Rosie O’Donnell
She’s already been around for a while, but I doubt she’ll go quietly. Just not that kind of woman. And she made a lot of noise before that Trump nonsense.

Donald Trump
He’s getting up there in years too, and safe to say that most of America is completely disgusted with him by now (myself included). Still, he’s an attention hog, and there’s no reason to believe he won’t go out kicking and screaming. Not unlike Mike Tyson.

Harry Potter
Dunno, dun’care. Find him overrated myself, but I’m not a kid into magical fantasy.

Justin Timberlake
The folks at Amazon.com may love him…well, some, anyway…but unfortunately, it looks like his ship has sailed. Ah, boy bands was just a fad anyway…

Angelina Jolie
Haven’t a clue.

Reality Television
It’s here to stay. Take that to the bank. When there’s a template with just a fraction of the requirements and costs of a fictional program and an essentially limitless pool of willing “actors”, the industry will find a way to make it work. Survivor, in particular, will last at least several more seasons before it’s even threatened with cancellation, American Idol has become an institution, and Dancing With The Stars is headed to that same exalted ground. And The Amazing Race is the WWE of reality TV; no matter how many bad ideas it has, no matter how many things to wrong, no matter how many participants get shafted, no matter how many hits it takes, it just will not die. There will be reality TV failures in the future just as there are in the past, but the concept is not going away in 10 years or 20.

CNN
Far from perfect, but just the fact that it’s more newsworthy than Fox News should keep it afloat.

Fundamentalist Islam
A far bigger issue than anyone with my meager world experience can tackle. The current Iraq adventure certainly is not helping, however.

Christian Right as a major political influence
Man, for me, this can’t end soon enough. Fortunately, it seems to be happening, but reactionaries don’t go quietly. The '08 campaigns should tell a lot.

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I can’t see how the iPod could get any smaller and still be ergonomic. My friend has the smallest available version and I find it too small to get a good grip on and manipulate. I have a SanDisk Sansa and it’s much bulkier, which I prefer. Unless we evolve smaller and thinner fingers to use our smaller iPods better (it’s not out of the question - natural selection has come to favor those with the sweeter gadgets!)

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Not that I expect her soon disappearance, but apparently, Rosie has decided not to return for her last three weeks on THE VIEW. Guess she couldn’t take the little dumb blond daring to defy her. Awww.

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Paris Hilton will die before she’s thirty.

Sanjaya will fade away into oblivion.

Rosie O’Donnell is a smart, shrewd woman. I do not always agree with her, and she can be rather crude at times, but she is a survivor. She will be in the spotlight for a long, long time.

Donald Trump- Geez, just die.

Harry Potter- never read one of the books or watched any of the movies but he has his place in cult fiction. At least he got kids reading again.

I don’t know enough about Justin Timberlake. I guess the teens like him.

Angelina Jolie will become Mia Farrow and Woody Allen will kill both of them.

If I could have one wish come true it would be that reality television die a hasty death.

Fundamentalist Islam will continue to be in the forefront, sad to say.

Christian Right as Political Influence- I wish I could say people will be smart enough to not let their religion rule their politics, but we all know it’s not true. It will be the same 20 years from now.

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This is quite deliberately a bump from a decade ago, and a fair few of the posters are still around, so let’s examine the predictions. Here’s the most relevant of mine:

Well, I got that one right. :wink:

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Not predicted but Weird Al is still around.

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**Added appraisal in Red. **

Part 2

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Good idea. Here’s mine.

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Um. I don’t think this could be more wrong. Same Sex Marriage is legal - though controversial - is all states based on SCOTUS ruling.

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I’m still here, and I see that not only did I do better than 50-50, but that I never could spell millennium.

I’m willing to take my lumps for Donald Trump and pleased to be wrong about Justin Timberlake. Rosie O’Donnell is still working, but I underestimated the stamina of the religious right.

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Weird Al will be around as long as we have a new daily crop of 12-year-olds. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Holy Fucking Shit.

By the way, I posted recently about meeting Weird Al at the Porno Awards. And that was long before this thread was started. Somebody was in disbelief.

Time. The Ultimate Unknown. Well, going forward. :smiley:

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hopefully all in the op…

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I predict that in ten years, people will still count misses as hits in the most blatant, context-denying ways possible. In this case, the context is the plain meaning of the words on the screen, and the blatant-ness comes from reading them, promptly forgetting what you just read, and proclaiming it a total hit.

Hey, if we can say that visionaries from the 1960s got Home Computers right when they predicted our homes would literally have computer butlers to help manage the household, we can say that gay marriage jurisprudence hasn’t progressed one whit from the Dubya era.

Similarly, I don’t see how reality TV has gotten any worse since 2007. I just don’t. Is it still around? Yeah, probably, sure. I’ll grant the predictors that much. Does it still have The Walking Uterus and the Magical Christian Rape Cult? No. Does it still have Here Comes Type-II Diabetes? Don’t think so.

Different question: Is it still as relevant as it was? Just from 2011, traditional TV viewership among The People Advertisers Care About (18-24-year-olds) dropped from 25 hours a week to about 15. That includes DVR-shifted TV, so be sure to cleverly bring up how they ignored DVRs and that’s skewing the numbers. “In sum, between 2011 and 2016, Q4 traditional TV viewing by 18-24-year-olds dropped by almost 10 hours a week, or by roughly 1 hour and 25 minutes per day. In percentage terms, Q4 traditional TV viewing by 18-24-year-olds was down by 7.1% year-over-year and has now fallen by 39% since 2011. In other words, in the space of 5 years, almost 40% of this age group’s traditional TV viewing time has migrated to other activities[.]”

Yes, some people watched more TV over the same time frame: Boomers. Are you surprised? Are you really surprised to find out who’s responsible for the Real House Wives Of The White House?

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Then I will let my inner 12-year-old freak flag fly.

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Can I please give a Mea Culpa on the gay marriage issue. With apologies, I did not realize it was legal in all states now. Just egregious ignorance of an important decision.

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That was probably me. :o

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Hmmm… Unsure

:dubious:

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Sanjaya has an album coming out later this month.