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I agree, The Dark Night is an incredible movie. I don't think I've seen a villain quite like the Joker.

As far as 2030 goes, By then we will have some sort of alternative fuel vehicles. Battery technology will have improved, but not to the point where all-electric vehicles are right for everyone.

I think that e-book type devices like Amazon's kindle will be fairly common. The display technology will have come down in price and with built-in wireless internet through a cellular connection they will be used more than newspapers and the like. Plus, they will be cheap enough that its not a big deal if it breaks.

Home automation will be common in all newly built homes. Audio and video will be streamed through the home through the network and with 100mbps fiber internet connections streaming movies and TV over the intertubes will be common.

Or something like that.

Statistician I.J. Good predicted that somewhere between 2005 and 2030, superhuman intelligence (most likely in the form of an AI) will be developed, and the pace of advancement will accelerate even more rapidly than it already is. Vernor Vinge called it the "technological singularity," and argued that it would bring dramatic changes to society as a whole as we or our creations become not only better at advancing technology but also at advancing the technology running their own advanced minds.

Essentially, though, if there's even one major breakthrough in the next twenty-two years, the face of technology will potentially be radically different. But what I do know is that by 1990, we'll all be driving flying cars and there will be six colonies on the moon. Oh, and computers will be the size of football stadiums.

I agree fully about The Dark Knight. I left the theater thinking that Ledger's Joker is the best villain I've seen. In the day that has passed since, my estimation has risen. I can't get that performance out of my head. It reeked of genuine, dangerous insanity and yet it was strangely subtle. Not at all over the top.