1. Baby polar bears will replace kittens as the most popular internet animal. Thanks to this article by Mashable, the world has been exposed to polar bear cubs. Sure, we all love kittens, but seriously – look at that little guy.
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2. Miley Cyrus will invent a new suggestive dance move to replace Twerking. Moms of teenage daughters will be outraged (and then secretly practice when no one is around).
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3. Facebook will change its layout. The world will go into hysterics – and then complain about it on Facebook.
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4. Walking Dead fans will become furious when all the main characters are killed off, and then actually start eating people in protest.
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5. Amazon will collect so much online data about your purchasing preferences that drones will deliver products to you before you actually place an order. And you won’t return the products because Amazon was totally right.
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6. Twitter will follow the example of NFL teams and redesign their logo to be tougher.
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7. A new social network called “Vent” will be started. Users will go there to post their problems publicly. Facebook will buy them for $1 billion to get its entire audience back.
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8. Proper spelling will be completely ignored due to texting and auto-correct. English teachers everywhere will freak out – and no one else will care.
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9. Curling will be huge at the Olympics. The drama of Curling is intense and the world will know. I’m not kidding. Social media will go crazy. #curling – get used to it.
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10. Entire messages will be written in emoticons with no words used whatsoever.
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11. Those little cartoons people make of themselves will finally be funny – wait, no they won’t.
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12. We will forget who the Most Interesting Man in the World is, because his head is constantly replaced by someone else.
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13. Data, data, data. It’s not just large corporations that are monitoring your online activity. Businesses of all sizes are getting smarter and paying attention to your interests. Don’t be surprised when you get phone calls that sound like this: “I notice you were looking at our _____ and I wanted to reach out and see if you have any questions.”
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14. The Willy Wonka meme will be replaced by Thomas the Train dispensing witty and sarcastic commentary – because hey, why not?
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