YOUR LIFE AS A STORY

1) It's going to get worse
2) The future isn't going to feel futuristic
5) You'll spend a lot of your time feeling like a dog leashed to a pole outside the grocery store – separation anxiety will become your permanent state
6) The middle class is over. It's not coming back
8) Try to live near a subway entrance
12) Expect less
13) Enjoy lettuce while you still can
15) Make sure you've got someone to change your diaper
17) You may well burn out on the effort of being an individual
23) Everyone will be feeling the same way as you
25) Dreams will get better
26) Being alone will become easier
28) It will become harder to view your life as “a story”
33) People who shun new technologies will be viewed as passive-aggressive control freaks trying to rope people into their world, much like vegetarian teenage girls in the early 1980s
34) You're going to miss the 1990s more than you ever thought
38) Knowing everything will become dull
41) The future of politics is the careful and effective implanting into the minds of voters images that can never be removed
42) You'll spend a lot of time shopping online from your jail cell
43) Getting to work will provide vibrant and fun new challenges
44) Your dream life will increasingly look like Google Street View
45) We will accept the obvious truth that we brought this upon ourselves
(Douglas Coupland | A Radical Pessimist's Guide To The Next 10 Years - The Globe And Mail)