Just so you know I’m not type of person who worries about the future. I think ahead more than a year only on the rare occasion that I am prompted by others. I am graduating this coming January with a graduate degree in Simulation and Digital Entertainment. I fully intend to seek work in graphic design for the first video game company to hire me.
In ten years time I anticipate I will have worked my way up into a games company and be designing graphics for games played on huge TV’s or portable devices with touch screens and holographic goggles. I highly doubt my life will be limited to that. I hope to have by then found a good girl and gotten married. I also doubt my video gaming will have diminished by much though I hope buy 10 years from now I will be doing all my MMORPGs via hollow-goggles and a 120gig mobile device, no doubt developed by apple, though if Microsoft gets it self organized in mobile tech they may manage it first.
Where in the country I will be living, if even still in USA, I am not certain of or for that mater where my friends will be living. I am certain though we will still be in contact and playing MMOs and Pokèmon cards together from time to time. We have already stopped buying new cards so we likely will be using the same cards in ten years.
If the US government hasn’t increased their security and surveillance technology to sickening levels I would be shocked. I would hope though that in ten years of this they will have gotten better at making the surveillance less impeding. The automation of security is likely the least invasive way to survey though I doubt it would be most effective.
I highly doubt I will have moved out of the US as I have never had much skill at learning a second language and most of the best game companies are either American, Korean, or Japanese. I imagine I will have a small heap of obsolete and or broken laptops and PCs either networked to make a stronger engine or just gathering dust, probably the later. My social life is nearly all electronic and like it or not I will not likely have managed to change that in ten years but if I manage to find that wife I will end out splitting that time between family and friends where friends are through the electronics.
Control of my life has never been that much of an interest to me, likely in ten years having gotten married I will be able to delegate that responsibility to my better half. I wonder about transportation in the future of our country. I want to get a motorcycle, not a Harley but one of those quieter bikes, however I doubt roads will be any less congested ten years from now. I believe busses and other mass transit will be even more crowded despite the same or higher congestion on roadways. This is all of course assuming an alternate method is found and implemented for gasoline.
The future hinges on power. Our planet has boomed through the exploitation of stored energy in Oil. Now that its supply is feigning birthrates and economies are plummeting and I believe they will level out at some point. I am certain that our wasteful days will never quite return at the same level.
