Future Predictions

1. In sixty years or so, the layout of urban areas and the surrounding sprawl will be greatly different than it is today.  The sprawlage will be much larger, encroaching upon much of the natural environment.  I think that the cities themselves will be much more vertically oriented.  The sky is part of real estate when you consider air rights that people have been dealing with forever, but primarily with the advent of air travel.  In America, the Federal Aviation Administration has had a majority of control when it comes to how high a building can really be, in which zones, safetywise, or can we build air travel around it- the other way?  It gets complicated.  I think that in the future there will not be enough space for the population and people will build up.  Maybe even underground, too.  Vertical gardens are already an up-and-coming means of sustainable agriculture.  I think they'll become more standard farming practice.
2. In the future I predict that people will be embedded with a chip that contains numerous functions.  It will store social security information, credit card/financial information, accumulated music, photographs, documents, keys to unlock your house, car, etc., GPS functions, and more.  It will be similar to how we operate with cell phones today, except embedded in our actual skin.  That way, you could always take it out if you didn't feel like having the government be able to track your every move at all times.
3. A third possibility for the future is that we would go back to nature.  Having used up most of our resources, we would finally realize the value of them and ration out what little we had left.  There would be lots of talk of "the old days" and Grandpa's tales about what rolling green hills looked like.  Alaska, the poles, and other previously fairly uninhabited areas would house the last of the pioneers.  The few hunters left would only be the toughest few.  The world's population would be greatly decreased and it would be a time of rebuilding and letting nature turn devastation into regrowth.