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#21 Ben Smith

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Posted 08 February 2007 - 09:32 PM

Want to hear my honest prediction??

Horse Fly, BC will have a downtown holding over forty 50+ story buildings, and Victoria, BC's highest building will be 31 floors, AND IT WILL BE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE MALAHAT.

Also, I will be in the crazy-house

#22 renthefinn

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Posted 08 February 2007 - 11:19 PM

The Crazy House, Sounds like a nice town!

#23 VicHockeyFan

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Posted 08 February 2007 - 11:52 PM

2085? We'll be ruled by the Taliban. No music, no movies, no kite-flying.

http://www.opinionjo...a/?id=110007760

Thank Allah, I'll be dead.
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#24 van-island

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Posted 27 February 2007 - 05:11 AM

75% of Greater Victoria buildings are empty. Following the end of cheap supplies of petroleum products in the early 30's, supporting a large population was no longer viable, and 50 years after the great starvation decade of the 2040's the population still hasn't recovered. The only available transportation on the island are a few electric cars run by a wealthy elite, and 6 Budd diesel cars running on the E&N, all over 100 years old, all rebuilt numerous times. They run on biodiesel, and are the island's only transportation available to the 250,000 odd people still living in the island. The Victoria area is heavily dependent on the food and other supplies brought into the city on the weekly freight cars from up-island.

Most of what was left of the suburbs have been knocked down and carried away for scrap, winter fuel, and salvage, and the local government program to reclaim farmland from thousands of concrete driveways, building foundations and unused roadways progresses slowly but surely. Most of UVic has become overgrown with trees, and wildlife and fish stocks off the coast are slowly coming back from their collapse 50 years ago now that fishing fleets no longer ravage the ocean.

Since gas powered cars fell out of use, the Malahat roadway has decayed to become nearly unusable, and the bridge from Mill Bay to the Saanich penninsula that was finished in 2017 sits unused and nearing collapse. For those wanting to get off the island, private sailboats for hire carry nearly anything for a price.

Great wine is still available from the Cowichan Valley.



:-D

#25 ressen

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Posted 14 March 2007 - 01:29 PM

In the early years of 2000 it became clear that fossil fuels and other pollutants were affecting the climate. This seemed evident with more severe and frequent storms. During the 'green teens' it was decided that carbon based personal vehicles would be baned from anywhere South of the Trans Canada Highway and East of the Patricia Bay Highway in the Victoria area. Rapid transit from Sooke to Victoria and Sidney was completed in time for the ban which took effect in 2025. Parking facilities and rentals of personal electric scooters became a booming business in Victoria. Bicycles became a viable option for commuters with the bridge over Esquimalt Harbour and the addition of air assisted Velo Tubes on the hills of the most frequently used cycle routes. Carbon fueled commercial vehicles were still allowed till 2030 when they were replaced by electric and hydrogen power. The high speed trains from Courtney , Nanaimo and the gulf islands would not come on line for another 22 years. During the immigration influx or the so called, 'Asian invasion' of the thirties Victoria's skyline started to take on a look reminiscent of the style found in Hong Kong. Local council opposed these sky scrapers but were overruled by the Provincial Government of the day, who were then promoting smart growth. Victoria's China Town was again to become the largest on North Americas West Coast reaching from Pandora Ave to Burnside Rd., however that was not without controversy as both Vancouver and San FranCisco wanted to hang on to that tittle. During the late fifties Vancouver island municipalities were incorporated in to one regional district; usually just called the Island. In 2067 in cooperation with the U.S. Government, a tidal power plant was proposed to be built stretching from Vancouver Island, Sidney Island, San Juan Island and over to Bellingham. It was agreed that this facility would also incorporate tracks for high speed trains. This project was completed in 2083. Passengers on trains from Victoria to Vancouver B.C. would remain bonded on their passage through the states due in large part to Canada having decriminalized marijuana, while in the U.S., the Government had still not given up their 'war on drugs'. In Canada it was recognized that H3 buildings were the answer to most crime and social ills. The Hospital, Hotel and Hostel buildings or H3 as they are better known, would freely distribute drugs to addicts, house the homeless and prostitutes as well as provide medical care, food and counseling. Of course there would still be youth and some people that would experiment with drugs on the out side or at parties, but for the most part home invasions and theft were quite uncommon. Today Victoria enjoys one of the cleanest most vibrant cities on the West Coast.

#26 KublaKhan

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Posted 19 March 2007 - 02:24 PM

We will all be dead by then. Not much to see at that time.

However, my grandkids will move about smartly in their personal rocket propelled jet packs and/or flying jet cars. Robots will perform menial tasks, like setting the table, doing the dishes, grooming the dog, etc.

Five course meals will be served in one easy-to-swallow unflavoured geletin capsule.

Offices will be vast centers for electronic data storage, with massive 5000 terabyte (or whatever the equivalent measure after terabyte is) hubs, and all buildings storing data will have microwave-proofed energy fields buzzing around them. These places will be empty of any human activity/presence.

People will work from GPS monitored jet cars that will whip through the skies at speeds approaching Mach 10, for no other purpose than to prove that humans can master speed, metal dynamics and aeronautical engineering all at the same time.

Cops will summarily execute beggars and street urchins, and bars will be open around the clock.

Dick Cheney will be president of the Republic of Oil Producing States of North America, which will include the former site of British Columbia. His first heart will be enshrined at the Smithsonian Institute for Medical Oddities: Mutant Tissue Division.

Victoria's tourist attractions will include the formerly secret hidden submarine base, discovered moored in the Inner harbour in 2025, after a group of hich school kids found a plug during a diving expedition and pulled it, which led to the draining of the inner harbour and thus, the discovery of the submarine.

All secret tunnels in Victoria will have been filled with post card shops, fudge outlets and t-shirt vendors.

The Janion Hotel will not have changed one bit.

#27 Ms. B. Havin

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Posted 19 March 2007 - 04:15 PM

@ KublaKhan: that gets my vote for best vision! :)
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#28 Caramia

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Posted 19 March 2007 - 04:38 PM

Oh OK that was beautiful!

:lol:
Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

 



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