"If the colleges reviewed the real world, they could cut out 40% of the classes and move on to higher end subjects."

Nanobots in 2020-2030 will be injected into our brains and solve the problems that are unthinkable to today's surgeons.

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-robotools/?ca=dgr-lnxw09OSRoboticToolkits

"[Someone] predicts that the creation of advanced robots [could] lead to the destruction of the poor class: Due to improved techniques the elite will have greater control over the masses; and because human work will no longer be necessary the masses will be superfluous, a useless burden on the system.' [They] go further to state that the creation of these robots will give the elite the power to eliminate the poor class: 'If the elite is ruthless they may simply decide to exterminate the mass of humanity.'"

"Having 50%[-90%] unemployment in developed countries will completely alter all of our assumptions about work, production, and citizenship."

"Robot to Analyze Thousands of Alzheimer's Blood Samples"

http://www.medgadget.com/archives/2006/09/robot_scientist.html

http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,435805,00.html

"A new European Union-funded project will see the introduction of driverless Taxis at Heathrow, "cyber cars" in Rome and an automatic bus in Castellón, Spain. And that's only the beginning."

"There have been a succession of political regimes where each was the solution to an earlier dilemma."

Farm

My family has a 100 acre farm with a water supply it can go to in case there is absolutely terrible planning. You may try to do something similar.

Complex Surgery Moving Offshore

http://money.cnn.com/2006/08/02/magazines/business2/medicaltourism.biz2/index.htm

"Chatterbox George, the robot who's fooling everyone"

"A robot chat machine so life-like many people are fooled into thinking it's human has become the latest internet sensation."

http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=1303512006

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singularity_Is_Near

"By 2019, we will largely overcome the major diseases that kill 95 percent of us in the developed world."
-Ray Kurzweil
(probably based on things like protein folding, which is done by computers)

"Windows Vista Speech Recognition supports multiple languages and includes a new human-sounding speech synthesizer."