PREDICTIONS 04.17.08

The next few years will see the beginning of the end of radio, as radio audiences begin to move to Web-based music stations, such as Pandora Radio, which allows them to program their own taste in music and listen without commercial interruption. Talk radio will linger on for a few years after pop music radio stations shutter their doors, but only by moving to an online format where their punditry can be played through computers. By 2012, in order to get a radio in your car, it will have to be installed by a specialist; most cars will, instead, come with the ability to download and stream online radio stations.
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In 2015, robots will begin landing on mars in large quantities, sent by NASA to start the construction of the first permanent research base on Mars. In just five years, these robots will have constructed a small city, and humans will begin to inhabit the Red Planet.