- There is no deliberately dropped litter. Instant, cheap DNA testing coupled with a global NSA database means there is no escape from detection and punishment.
- Delivering pizza to a self-driving car proves to be technologically impossible. 3-D pizza printers within cars are seen as the way forward.
- All new homes are built with 'The Monkey Room' where humans can hang, squat, jump wide & long and eat fresh vegetables and fruit for 30 minutes every day. Health benefits are amazing.
- Starbucks buys Moleskine. Their new launch includes notebooks whose pages smell of freshly brewed coffee. Budding writers go wild and the initial print run is a sell out.
- Wifi blockers are cheap & portable. Family life returns and sales of Monopoly and Scrabble blossom.
- Cuba launches Cuba Classic, a return to the original island of bulbous brightly coloured cars, no advertising, free healthcare for all and plentiful rum and cigars as inhabitants and visitors alike demand it.
- Aliens land to great excitement are polite and charming but articulate that it was not quite as they expected and decide to explore other parts of the galaxy in their quest for eternal enlightenment.
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