* A new browser-like application will emerge which uses HTTP, but neither HTML nor Javascript as its UI construct. * Electric cars using glass batteries will s

* A new browser-like application will emerge which uses HTTP, but neither HTML nor Javascript as its UI construct. * Electric cars using glass batteries will start to out sell gasoline cars. * A product with the form factor and capabilities of current smartphones will emerge that can plug into a base and replace all be the most powerful desktop computer functionality. * Genetically designed crops grown using ocean salt water will emerge first as animal feed and later directly to human consumption. * Somewhere a war will be caused by the encroachment of sea level. * The superpowers will attempt to negotiate a new Antarctic treaty in anticipation of becoming reasonably warm enough to exploit for resources. * No manned expedition to either the Moon, nor Mars. Multiple robotic expeditions to both and perhaps the gas giants' moons. * Polarization of American politics will take a back seat to major recession (or depression) that causes nationalization of the banking system to avoid national debt default and gives rise to talk of a Constitutional Congress, not from the progressives, but from the conservatives. The congress will fail and the United States will break up into five or more separate countries.