* Cars would be flying and run on water
* Every house would be an zero-emmission robotic Xanadu Home of the Future
* World peace would have been achieved before year 2000
* Mandatory fullerenes in clothing put an end to all knife and gun deaths
* Cancer, AIDS, and mad cow disease would be cured all at once by the same cheap pill
* Africa would have turned into a full service economy
* Robots would have taken over every undesirable job by 2010, leaving everyone to work only jobs they truly enjoy
* 9/11 would have been averted
* The Simpsons would've called it quits in 1999.
* Sega would now be releasing the successor to the successor of the Dreamcast, sporting nano-immersive gameplay
* Google would have invented Android by 2001, Glass by 2006, and an implantable head device by 2012
* Justin Bieber would be a fat virgin working delievering pizza for Canadian Domino's
* It would've never gone beyond the British Office
* Tibet would be a free territory
* Liquid breathing allows divers to go deep enough and discover the lost city of Atlantis
* Gay, pansexual, genderqueer, polyamorous, and hermaphrodite marriage are all legalized
* The loveshy phenomon would have given way to a quieter pattern of suicides
* Moon colonies would ship back hundreds of tonnes of rare minerals monthly
* Half-Life 6 would be transparently developed and released this spring for $9.99
* In-utero nootropic engineering would permit the teaching of differential equations by 9th grade
* Citizens would take vacations to orbiting hotels where HAL serves you wine, steak, and a robotic blowjob
* The US Social Security Disability system would be rendered unnessecarry
* McDonald's would have changed their business model to serving salads, fruit, and vegan servings exclusively
* I would look as hot as an androgynous fashion model
* We would all be here be discussing more productive things, like how to enhance our residential solar-power throughput or how to fine-tune the scramjet on our home-built VTOL SSTO spacecraft