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Cottage-industry boom in areas of mundane goods like clothes, ceramics, privately-grown tobacco and marijuana, family farm produce and other consumables, retrofitting Detroit cars with homebrew hydrogen engines, alternative media cable networks, and a "shadow Internet" completely removed from but overlaying the existing Internet. Big business will tolerate this for just under 3 years before they have the government squelch it under some statute or another. While big business is out to lunch one day, the small-timers move in and change paperwork so that they will have always been there, to the best of any evidence. By 2008 Donald Trump will be ragged, bearded and penniless in front of his own tower singing, "Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?"
Ratings for the Oscars continues to drop, until by 2009 the only Nielsens it will chart will the be attendees taping it for themselves at home.
The entire island of Jamaica at long last reveals that it is a sunken spaceship that was discovered shortly before they overthrew the British. This is made public when Jamaica blasts off on a direct course for Sirius. |
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