10 ways to know you have reached the future

At the beginning of every year, decade, century or millennium people feel the need to make predictions for the future. Things that will happen over the next months and years. Often a year later you look back and laugh. Predicting the future is hard, if it were easy I would have won the lottery many times over.

So instead of making some prediction for what is going to happen over the next 12 months I am going to do the opposite. I am going to list 10 things any one of which happening will mean we have reached the future. Each of these things would cause a significant upturn in our world view and would disrupt all life as we know it.

When I started thinking of this post I was going to do it all in one post, but there are two problems:

1. I haven't thought of 10 yet.
2. Each one I think of I want to write too much on, so the blog post would be huge.

So instead I'm going to write each thing as a separate blog post, some will be longer some shorter. Also in case you don't know I'm a bit of a Sci-Fi geek, so some of these ideas may appear to have a common source.

Alasdair