1. I wish that someone would fix itembuildr, because it’s clear the world would end before ET ever gets around to it.

2. Someone to get a revelation on how to build a faster-than-light engine using energy sources in existence now, or at least a change in perception toward space colonization by average Joes throughout the world so there would be more universal support toward colonizing space. Literally, a huge number of today’s problems including jobs, resources and cost would be solved if humans could simply set up mining facilities in our own solar system in the asteroid belt. Faster than light travel would require some kind of miracle idea, but colonizing our own solar system isn’t nearly as far-fetched. Nuclear-powered engines could get us toward Pluto in a year, being able to float around Mars/Jupiter and the moon shouldn’t be that hard either.

3. The Baby Boomers will stagger their retirement rather than all retire at once at age 66. I love using the Boomers as scapegoats for the world’s problems, but if they do this and not bankrupt the USFG things might not be so intolerable for the next couple generations.