Calling all DS Psychics! Your predictions for 2017
Nah, I will do a far future prediction for the year 3017 though:
The Earth will at last be at peace with itself with a planetary assembly based in New York (not San Francisco as in Star Trek) as the highest level of a confederal system of governance.
Earth will have starships, O'Neill cylinders, bases on Mars and will have established cordial relations with other civilisations within this galaxy. Humanity will have discovered that convergent evolution applies (think tenrec, echidna and hedgehog on Earth) and that while the precise localised building blocks of nature might differ, the broad principles of biology are the same everywhere.