Apocalypse . . .um . . .SOON said:
So, in 2025, what will our country be like?
I'm STILL waiting for the commuter jet cars and the "too cheap to meter" electricity that we were promised in the '50s.
I bet that
- China will be wowing investors for its growth potential (still unfilled after three decades of hype),
- the U.S. national debt will make today's debt look like pennies,
- gas will be twice as expensive but fuel cells still won't be quite ready for mass production,
- nanotech is almost but not quite poised to help the fuel-cell industry take off,
- Social Security will still be on the brink of failure liquidity failure liquidity I give up,
- Medicare will be on the brink of... never mind,
- Ben Bernanke will still be in charge of the Fed and people will wistfully remember when Alan Greenspan really had a handle on running the place,
- G.W. Bush will be America's elder statesman,
- Clinton will be the elder lecher,
- President Clinton will issue a press release expressing dismay at her father's antics,
- Our 30-something kids will appreciate our sheer genius of their teenage years and will thank us for it every time they e-mail us,
- I'll still be surfing & doing yardwork, and
- Henry Blodget will still be
writing articles about Internet stocks.