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Community participant predictions

Solar collectors and gardens on roofs. Roads dug up, and planted with wheat and other crops. A giant wishing tree grows in Davis Square. Parking lots are now fields, with free homes for the former homeless. MBTA runs on clean energy, and there are monorails as well.
___People relax, wear comfortable clothing, drink coffee and tend gardens.
(source: Pam Summa. To see all of her predictions, click here.)


(image source: Google Street View and Wikipedia)

 

Other predictions

The world has run out of harvestable seafood.
(source: "Reforming fisheries: challenges for the millennium")