CHRoNiCLe oF THe FuTuRe

What was supposed to happen according to:
The Sunday Times - Chronicle of the Future
2000
- Amazonian tribes take biotech giant to court claiming theft of indigenous knowledge after they patent several plants known by natives to have medicinal or biological advantages
- The biblical cities of Sodom and Gomorrah found under the dead sea
- Killer dodges death row after experimental operation to send to tiny electrical impulses into part of brain thought to control or inhibit violent impulses
- Lord Lucan’s body found, preserved in ice, in Himalayas
2001
- NBC highest rating channel is War Channel, using unmanned aerial vehicles to capture scenes of death and destruction
- Outbreak of obsessive compulsive disorder thought to be caused by virus
- Artificial neurons developed to replace dying brain cells
- Zsa Zsa Gabor dies
2002
- Brain damage patient cured with injection of prepared brain tissue, grown in lab, injected into brain
- US and Japan send spacecraft to asteroid only 1km in diameter
- Christopher reeves walks again after use of methylprednisolone, a steroid, and transplanted tissue
- Genetically engineered bacteria used to extract gold by separating ore from rock
- Police use vests made from same material as spider webs but grown by bacteria
- Another bacteria used to dispose of waste at nuclear power plants
- Smokers can be inoculated against nicotine using new drug that attaches itself to nicotine molecules making them too big to pass through blood/brain barrier, thus no buzz
- Cinemas open small rooms for groups to watch film while being served restaurant quality food
- India and Pakistan conflict again over Kashmir
- 1st virtual classroom, using multiple projectors and motion sensors, takes kids on a tour of the human heart
- Prince harry renounces his place in succession
- Cannabis approved from medicinal use in UK
2003
- Viagra successor made using genetically engineered linseed, thus creating price lowering of Viagra
- Rugby players wearing tiny cameras mounted on headband and tiny heli-cams give viewers all new view of game
- Civil war erupts in Russia, small nukes used, thus causing nearby Asia to have a cold summer, which effects crops
- Spielberg quits to concentrate on low budget documentaries
- Wristwatch telephone reads out emails and lets you dictate replies
2004
- Scientists ecstatic over pictures returned from Titan, Saturn’s giant moon.
- Worlds tallest building, the 120-storey Grollo Tower in Melbourne is 1,873ft high
- Human Genome Project completed
- Pope Ignatius visits former home in Austria
- Barbara Cartland dies
- Microchips embedded in trees in London
2005
- Planck probe sends maps universe background radiation and works out what universe looked like when it was a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second old
- Diamond chips to replace silicon chips in computers
- Slobodan milosevic assassinated in Belgrade
- Scotland declares independence
- Water recycling washing machine on sale
- New Barbie released with speech recognition, infrared link to computer and ability to chat
- South African president calls on ban of all nuclear weapons within 5 years, Australia, Mexico, Sweden, Japan and south Africa sign up
- Saddam Hussein dies
2006
- Former-prince harry marries Sarah Bocking in Brighton register office
- Actors Sylvester Stallone and Bruce Willis feared dead in earthquake in Los Angeles
2007
- Baby born from saved egg from a previously miscarried baby, mum actually grandmother
- On 10th anniversary of Hong Kong’s hand over to china, protesters are wounded and a few killed at protests calling for independence
- Michael Schumaker retires
- Idi Amin dies after a stroke
- Popular fashion: self cleaning shirts, temperature changing fashion, tv display glasses, videophone cufflinks and voice recognition credit-card wallets
2008
- Heat wave causes chaos in London after temperatures of over 35C for 5 consecutive days
- Japanese lunar probe, partly funded by Disney, returns to earth with 8.6kg of helium-3
- Mike Tyson dies in street brawl in Los Angeles
- UK soap opera Eastenders finishes
- Factory that makes artificial organs for transplants opens