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Originally Posted by Discuss Thrower
AI will take over a lot more than just media interviews.
Brick and Mortar shops will not be the primary means of commercial shopping (if such a thing is still feasible in the future)
8.3 quake rocks the USA
Meat will be banned in a 10+ million person country
3D Printing becomes commonplace
Humans will set foot on Mars but they probably won't come back seeing as they'll be colonists or what have you.
Major epidemic will kill 25% of a 10+million person country
The US will no longer be a superpower.
And BTW, we already have flying cars. It just was a few years late for Avery Brooks' taste.
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I didn't do any research to develop the list, so I just threw 8.3 in on the earthquake since I figured that would be "really big".
The USGS has this list of the largest earthquakes in America, and it's pretty interesting:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquak...largest_us.php
Alaska rattle around a lot, but it looks like the official scoreboard shows only one earthquake in the continental US at or above 8.3 in recorded history, and it was in 1700. I thought the New Madrid quake was the biggest, but they're only showing those quakes at 7.5 to 7.9.