In The Year 2020...

This is a table topics segment I conducted at a toastmasters club during year-end 2012. It is the first time I used a futuristic theme. Typically such themes can be quite demanding on the speakers' ability to think out of the box at that moment. Nonetheless, it was great fun for those who let their imagination went wild.

We are now less than 30 days away from 2013, and how time flies! Now is the time to start planning for the future, to hope and to dream about what it might be like. Therefore, tonight's table topics shall be about the future... And when it comes to imagining the future, the sky's the limit.
 
I have with me what I think might be the world in say 2020. I have 10 topics, categorised under science and technology, and humanity and society. Each topic will start with "In the year 2020,"

It is now up to you to create the future.

A. Science & Technology
Man has landed on Jupiter and colonised it. Describe how we get there.
Man can travel between space in a blink of an eye. Where would you choose the live? Where would you choose to work?
Time travel is now possible. Which era will you travel back to?
Robots become our domestic helper. What is the one feature your robot must have?
Apple just launch its iPhone 20. What is the one feature that is absolutely essential to you?
 
B. Humanity & Society
Man has mutated to X man. Which super power would you like to have?
All babies are conceived in test tubes. Is there still a need for marriage?
Man can speak the language of animals, which animal would you like to communicate with?
Woman rules the world instead of man. What are some of these famous women?
There is only one world order, one government. Who will be the president of this new world order?

The above quotations and table topics are entirely mine.