Future Thoughts

I was watching some silly show about the end of the world stuff and predictions, the latest being Dec 21, 2012 (last date of the Mayan Calendar), now I don't believe in this stuff at all I think anyone can predict the future by watching the events unfold around them... So I will give some of my completely unqualified predictions... I won't be hazy about them so they can't be taken one way or another, which is common with prediction... I would say that at least one will be correct, but does this make me some sort of soothsayer? Nope

So here goes:

• Stephen Harper will be re-elected Prime Minister of Canada but will lose a seat from his already slim minority government
• Stephane Dion will step down as the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada after the loss
• Barack Obama will win the presidency of the United States of America by a large margin after a slow start
• There will be an attempt on Barack Obama's life in the second year of his presidency, the attempt will fail
• The US will still be in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2012
• Canada will still be in Afghanistan in 2011. This will bring down the Harper government
• Next year will be a very rocky time for the US (and the rest of the world because of it) economically
• 2010 will bring prosperity back to the US economy
• The Mars lander will find signs of life on Mars (very simple forms of life)
• There will be an incident on the space station that will cause an evacuation but we will be able to return there.
• There will be increasing unrest in China that may destabilize the government causing a move towards democracy for their very first time.
• Australia will leave the commonwealth
• England will move back to a conservative government
• Electric vehicles with fuel engines only to charge the batteries will become common, eclipsing the current mode of transportation
• Newspapers will disappear within 5 years being replaced by e-ink tablets that wirelessly get the news.
• Solar power will become more efficient and their use will become far more ubiquitous
• Virtual office workplaces will become common in 5 years
• Within ten years we will be "officially" contacted by life from outside of the solar system
• Within ten years the need for oil will diminish to a point where it causes hardship to some of the OPEC countries

Well that is it for now... I'll continue to give the future some thought and will update my blog...