The Amazing Kreskin

Animals

• A new fad will take place amongst private parties where individuals will be invited to bring their pets to the home.
• There will be an uncovering, much to the horror of so many of us, of the cruelty to animals in the Middle East.

Business

• The public is going to rebel against the lack of services that exists in so may areas of our culture, mainly reflected by recorded voices telling us to push certain numbers etc. In the end, what each button is telling us is that the company is incapable of personalized service.
• Another selling point of certain hotels will be advertising, that certain rooms are haunted, or that tragedies took place in certain rooms, and, the hotels were remodeled so that they resemble the time that the deaths or traumatic actions etc., took place in the setting of the décor.

Celebrities

• An interest will be generated in the work of Nipsy Russell who thirty or more years ago appeared on television as really the first rap artist making up words that described incidents that happened on a TV show in the hour before he came on. His work was cleaner, more devoid of hate and tasteless words.
• There will be another announcement of a movie to be made on the life of Houdini. If the movie is made, it will turn out to be remarkably unsuccessful.
• More and more celebrities will embrace the use of Tarot cards in their lives.

Cuisine

• Peanut Butter will have a rage-like fad of popularity not only with children and adults but pets as well.

Economy

• Baton Rouge, LA will have a renaissance, when it is rebuilt, beyond what existed before the devastating hurricanes.
• The stock market will lose a substantial amount of investors.

Education

• Pressure will result in the final initiation of courses on civility and manners at the grammar school and high school levels.

Entertainment

• There will be a fad of practical jokes in which ice cubes will play a role whether they are dropped down people’s backs, placed in packets, or what have you.
• The use of pendulums will flourish not only as a serious introspective technique but as a recreational experience.
• The day will come when some innovative theatre owner will introduce a unique, unheard of service, that of making available to his customers a double feature presentation. This could save movie attendance and increase it, for it will enable the return of well written movies, many of which could be less than ninety minutes by tight writing scripting and combining two movies as a double feature, the public will get it’s monies worth and not leave bored by an unnecessarily lengthy single motion picture.
• The day that audiences find they are being railroaded and cheated, the future of live entertainment will be threatened. The day that the public finds when they attend the performance of their favorite musician, and that some of the musicians are not actually playing but are pretending to play, the audience members will questions the experience. Sooner or later, it will be discovered that entire orchestras and bands are not playing a single note, a secret that has been concealed, not the past several years, but for almost a decade. The day that a camera crew sneaks in and shows that behind the stage is a console and that all the music that is apparently being played by musicians onstage is being broadcast through pre-recorded machinery, the public will begin to express outrage.
• In television this coming year there will be more deaths in various series’. The real reason, to cut the cast and consequently, cut down on the expenses for the series.
• A great novel will come out of the Katrina disaster which will compare with Hemmingway’s writings.
• Entertainment will reach a point that many people will find actual torture amongst private gatherings to be their form of perverted pleasure.
• Kids will be prone to imitate and experience various forms of torture.

Ettiquette

• At lunch, at outdoor eating places, a new social activity will take place exhibited by disgruntled friends. If an acquaintance or dinner partner ends up devoting more than several minutes on a cell phone leaving the other person sitting and waiting, more and more such partners will simply get up from the table and leave the restaurant.

Fashion

• An important American designer of luxury goods will be tapped as a good-will ambassador to a third world country.
• There will be a fad of shoeless and sockless feet in our society which will last from three to six months, period.
• Neck-ties will return in popularity. The tie-less shirts will have become so tiring that it will be refreshing to see ties again although, they will not necessarily be tightened all the way around the throat, but, worn loosely.

Gaming Industry

• Established card manufacturing companies will suffer credibility by the questionable marketing and selling of “marked decks.” They will of course use the excuse that the decks are sold for “entertainment purposes only.” A ludicrous excuse which no intelligent person would accept for one moment.

Health

• More and more individuals attending wedding parties and large family celebrations will complain that music is so loud that they cannot hear conversation. More and more people are going to find themselves sitting at private parties and gatherings, stone silent, as it is becoming difficult to hear the person sitting directly across from you.
• While it has been notorious for having amongst the highest disturbed members, mental illness will increase even further amongst Psychiatrists.
• Suicide will increase amongst Dentists.
• An occasion of mass hysteria will take place in a school. The cause of the fainting epidemic will not be based on any physical or chemical factors, but, pure psychological behavior.

Law & Order

• There will be renewed interest and a serious investigation into the murder of Mario Lanza, the great movie and recording artist of the 1950′s.
• A number of lawsuits will be issued against movie theaters because of what will be construed as damaging noise level of the sound.

Politics

• If and when, Fidel Castro passes on, Raoul, his son, will not succeed him. There will be a political military take-over certainly away from the Castro dynasty.
• North Korea will make some major agreements with the Western World, most of which will never hold up and be kept.

Real Estate

• A window will be invented that will automatically close when it begins to rain.

Sports

• The Olympics will continue to remain removed from New York City in the foreseeable future.

Technology / Science

• Hard as it will be to believe, listening devices imbedded in the body which will be increasingly used by card sharks, spies, fake psychics etc. will find their way into general society, even amongst teenagers.
• A mass UFO warning of sorts will be picked up by people on their cell phones.
• As less and less jobs become available in our society, what with the outsourcing, many work activities that today are filled by illegal aliens, will be filled instead by young individuals seeking some kind of work fulfillment.
• I still insist, as I have said for a number of years, that weapons of mass destruction have existed and do exist, they simply have not been found.
• I repeat again, my prediction of the past few years which applies to 2006. Osama Bin-Laden will not be captured.
• A new electronic service of homes will simply be that individuals be able to change the color of their home walls at their whim.
• There will be an onslaught of gossip columns done on a local level, available on the web page dealing with local city inhabitants.
• A lawsuit will be filed accusing someone of what they are thinking.
• The length of employment for a television executive will drop to three to four years.
• Steven Spielberg will produce a film in the style of the films of Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy features.
• Teenage addiction to poker and other gambling will compete with drug addiction.
• One of the new television team news shows will be a disaster.
• In a few years, Iran will be closed-off; physicists will estimate that almost a decade will pass before radio activity will decrease to a safe level.
• In a few years, that average adult American will weigh 190 lbs.
• The issue of eminent domain will threaten and topple many state and city officials in the United States.
• A campaign is looming in the background for the State of New Jersey that will encourage people to visit New Jersey but not to live there. This campaign will receive great support from residents of the state as well as animal lovers. However, to the contrary, it will arouse the anguish of politicians, land developers and criminals.
• One of the biggest crises in the broadcast industries, especially television, is when it is realized by advertisers that commercials, at least ninety percent of them are not working, and, are having minimal impact on viewers.