Teenagers’ acronyms will become increasingly baroque and esoteric, a code that anyone over 30 is helpless to decipher.

Written language will start to disintegrate, replaced by an increased reliance on images.

Privacy will erode at a frightening pace, as everyone more or less willingly shares every last bit of personal information with public and private entities.

The environment will get worse. A lot worse.

The military-industrial complex will grow.

Civil liberties will wither.

Phones will become more powerful and omnipresent, increasing people’s futile sense of desperation to constantly keep up with everything that’s happening everywhere else.

People will have more sex, and enjoy it less.

People will do more drugs, and enjoy them less.

The whole Internet is going to become as potty-mouthed as The Tangential.

– Jay Gabler thinks that 20 years from now, everyone’s going to have a high-traffic blog, a handsome girlfriend, a beautiful boyfriend, and a housebroken pony.