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A Radical Pessimist's Guide To The Next 10 Years

• TheGlobeAndMail.com/news/
 
9) The suburbs are doomed, especially thoseE.T. , California-style suburbs This is a no-brainer, but the former homes will make amazing hangouts for gangs, weirdoes and people performing illegal activities. The pretend gates at the entranceways to gated communities will become real, and the charred stubs of previous white-collar homes will serve only to make the still-standing structures creepier and more exotic. 10) In the same way you can never go backward to a slower computer, you can never go backward to a lessened state of connectedness 11) Old people won't be quite so clueless No more “the Google,” because they'll be just that little bit younger. 12) Expect less Not zero, just less. 13) Enjoy lettuce while you still can And anything else that arrives in your life from a truck, for that matter. For vegetables, get used to whatever it is they served in railway hotels in the 1890s. Jams. Preserves. Pickled everything.