April 18, 2011

The Future, According to Google's Results

Today's XKCD comic explores the future using the top Google results for queries like "by the year *", "by <year> *". According to Google's search results, one year after the 2012 Apocalypse, "microchipping of all Americans begins". In 2014 "GNU/Linux becomes the dominant OS" and by the year 2020, HTML5 is finished and "newspapers become obsolete and die out".


Here's the entire future timeline, which includes prediction about Android, US debt, India, world population, global warming and robot policemen.

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9 comments:

  1. Anand Kumar @NetRivalApril 18, 2011 at 6:59 AM

    Well, Their something strange!!

    How can "Android takes 38% of the smartphone market" and "Android takes 45% of the smartphone market" in the single year 2016!!

    Their may be error but its possible!!

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  2. RyanApril 18, 2011 at 7:28 AM

    Logically, by taking 45% of the markershare you have by default taken 38%. No error.:D

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  3. refurbished notebooksApril 19, 2011 at 12:39 AM

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  4. transcribeApril 19, 2011 at 8:58 AM

    Then what will happen to those people who are addicted to newspapers? So much change within this period? That's strange.

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  5. free wordpress temesApril 23, 2011 at 11:34 AM

    Its funny.

    Flying car - I like it :) hope the fuel will be cheap.

    President Clinton - is he going to be the next president?

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  6. AnonymousApril 25, 2011 at 10:29 AM

    I didn't like this future timetable at all. I mean I am still young and I'd like to live my life being successful, throwing huge parties and having loads of sex.

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  7. mihir naikMay 10, 2011 at 3:18 AM

    interesting!!!

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  8. UnknownFebruary 16, 2017 at 6:58 AM

    Wow! So, Google wasn't wrong after all. Most predictions came true. Amazing!

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