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Forget hoity-toity futurists and their scientifically-based predictions about the coming decade. The Philadelphia Inquirer decided to look into a crystal ball with the people who boast the best imaginations — no, not Calvin and Hobbes — kids.

The children made predictions about what the world will look like over the next 10 years with some forecasting a sunny outlook and other dreaming up a decidedly more gloomy future. Bonus points for trying to guess the political affiliation of each kid’s parents.

I think all of the animals will be dead in 10 years because America is polluting too much. People who aren’t married won’t have dogs, cats, fish, or any other type of house animal. Lexi, 8

Robots will take over the world.  They will have lasers. Jacob, 9

I think presidents will only have one year and one year only to live in the White House with fame. So yearly people get a chance to vote. I don’t think there will be a flying car, which is just unreasonable. Ori, 9

By the year 2020, I think there will be a lady president, and school will be at home and at 8:30 a.m. the TV will automatically go on the education network. Eric, 7

I think there will start to be vacation resorts in outer space and vegan fast food chains. The fast food will be completely kind to animals and nothing derived from animals in the whole company. Avital, 10

Swing over to Philly newspaper’s website to see all the kid predictions.

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