What's the pool world going to be like in 50 years?
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10-ball will be on the verge of replacing 9-ball. The majority of the game will be played on bar boxes. Occasionally an exhibition match will be played on a 9 footer, if they could find one.
Since Simonis now owns Aramith, then they'll come out with their new product smart billiard balls with built in gyroscopes. In order to utilize these balls properly, you have to play them on Simonis cloth. The balls can be programmed to roll as if on fast cloth, simulate a 9 foot table or even 12 foot snooker shot on a 7 foot table. The smart balls also compensate for ball wear, and can be programmed to stick together for a tight rack by leaning against each other.
In major tournaments, top players will insist the balls get re-charged between games to maintain top performance even though the balls will last for months between charges. On AZ, there will be debate on whether topping balls (charging) between games makes a difference. Dr. Dave will publish his results showing no conclusive evidence. Despite this, there is a healthy industry of people selling 'premium ball chargers'.
Brunswick will likely be a leisurewear company. By 2018 they would have switch over to making yoga pants for men, which proved immensely profitable and never looked back at pool or bowling. The last product bearing the Gold Crown brand will likely be a cellphone gaming app.
Cue sticks will have camera built into the tip to record and livestream the game. Premium cue sticks will have two cameras. The second camera will allow you to take selfies as you play so they can be published on future Facebook,Twitter, or Instagram. Pros like Earl will able to charge for lessons on properly adjusting finger to make V-signs for selfies.
Since Simonis now owns Aramith, then they'll come out with their new product smart billiard balls with built in gyroscopes. In order to utilize these balls properly, you have to play them on Simonis cloth. The balls can be programmed to roll as if on fast cloth, simulate a 9 foot table or even 12 foot snooker shot on a 7 foot table. The smart balls also compensate for ball wear, and can be programmed to stick together for a tight rack by leaning against each other.
In major tournaments, top players will insist the balls get re-charged between games to maintain top performance even though the balls will last for months between charges. On AZ, there will be debate on whether topping balls (charging) between games makes a difference. Dr. Dave will publish his results showing no conclusive evidence. Despite this, there is a healthy industry of people selling 'premium ball chargers'.
Brunswick will likely be a leisurewear company. By 2018 they would have switch over to making yoga pants for men, which proved immensely profitable and never looked back at pool or bowling. The last product bearing the Gold Crown brand will likely be a cellphone gaming app.
Cue sticks will have camera built into the tip to record and livestream the game. Premium cue sticks will have two cameras. The second camera will allow you to take selfies as you play so they can be published on future Facebook,Twitter, or Instagram. Pros like Earl will able to charge for lessons on properly adjusting finger to make V-signs for selfies.
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In 50 years, there will be a Department of CTE in governance and all proponents will send the OB to center pocket. CTE haters/deniers will be in Guatanimo.
Smaller.....like old men playing chess at a park.
Fifty years from now the game along with all other sociability will have disappeared.
But all is not lost. In the near future the traditional US pool room will be a dim distant memory. But there will be a resurgence of the game and it will become bigger and more popular than it ever was.
This will be the era of the home table, the home league, the home tournaments.
It will become the Sanchez Family versus The Smith Family, Maybe Joes Tires against Luigi’s Pizza.
Certainly Acme Care Home playing The Cocooners. It could be Uptown Pasadena fighting it out against the Oakland Young Guns.
But almost all this action will be behind closed doors. There will be a massive demand for tables, cues, cases and accessories. A few semi public venues will exist where commercial enterprises may want to play and there will be a few optimist who may try opening up as a business.
But in 20 years it will all be gone again.
Only a few serious answer to a legitimate question from the OP? THis website has more than it's share of wannabee comedians (failed!)
But all is not lost. In the near future the traditional US pool room will be a dim distant memory. But there will be a resurgence of the game and it will become bigger and more popular than it ever was.
This will be the era of the home table, the home league, the home tournaments.
It will become the Sanchez Family versus The Smith Family, Maybe Joes Tires against Luigi’s Pizza.
Certainly Acme Care Home playing The Cocooners. It could be Uptown Pasadena fighting it out against the Oakland Young Guns.
But almost all this action will be behind closed doors. There will be a massive demand for tables, cues, cases and accessories. A few semi public venues will exist where commercial enterprises may want to play and there will be a few optimist who may try opening up as a business.
But in 20 years it will all be gone again.
Only a few serious answer to a legitimate question from the OP? THis website has more than it's share of wannabee comedians (failed!)
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Self Sustaining-
It will be better.
Pool has never had anything to help feed itself-
Ultimately,
every project connected to "Raising the Hustler" is meant to achieve this goal.
-CP
It will be better.
Pool has never had anything to help feed itself-
Ultimately,
every project connected to "Raising the Hustler" is meant to achieve this goal.
-CP
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50 years from now:
Snooker will have superseded pool as the dominant cue sport in terms of overall global popularity. A huge majority (if not all) of pool tables by then will have snooker-type pockets. FYI, JOY Billiards, a pool table manufacturer based from China, as far as I know is the first company to mass produce this type of pool table, and is now being used in one of the big Chinese 8-ball tourneys there.
The snooker-type pocket pool tables, and perhaps the type of cloth, would steadily change how pool players play the game. You will see them begin to adopt cueing techniques/style typically associated with snooker players, i.e distinct back pause, snooker stance, preference for stun/draw over sidespin/English. Gone are the days of using the closed bridge, the loopy stroke of the Filipinos and jump cues. And maybe most snake-oil aiming systems.
Consequently, the overall potting standard of an average pool player will approach that of an average snooker player. 8, 9 or 10-ball may give pool players a slight advantage when it comes to positional play.
So, 50 years from now, it may not be out of the realm of possibility that more professional pool players will also play snooker at a professional level.
Snooker will have superseded pool as the dominant cue sport in terms of overall global popularity. A huge majority (if not all) of pool tables by then will have snooker-type pockets. FYI, JOY Billiards, a pool table manufacturer based from China, as far as I know is the first company to mass produce this type of pool table, and is now being used in one of the big Chinese 8-ball tourneys there.
The snooker-type pocket pool tables, and perhaps the type of cloth, would steadily change how pool players play the game. You will see them begin to adopt cueing techniques/style typically associated with snooker players, i.e distinct back pause, snooker stance, preference for stun/draw over sidespin/English. Gone are the days of using the closed bridge, the loopy stroke of the Filipinos and jump cues. And maybe most snake-oil aiming systems.
Consequently, the overall potting standard of an average pool player will approach that of an average snooker player. 8, 9 or 10-ball may give pool players a slight advantage when it comes to positional play.
So, 50 years from now, it may not be out of the realm of possibility that more professional pool players will also play snooker at a professional level.
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