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The shower limit is our over-harvesting of our natural resources, as well as the soda tax, because apparently caramel and whatever else is in soda is too expensive to produces/grow/mine/etc.
Driverless cars are almost a reality, but I could imagine my parent's vision of an automated delivery system going to our house to drop it off, but maybe it's faster to send your car then to wait in the queue for the delivery system.
The menu at the restaurant is the Microsoft Surface with a restaurant menu system installed and running which I think could be here in a few years, and makes me want to open a restaurant with just those as menus and payment.
The robot that gives you your food is a newer version of Willow Garage's PR2 robot, and the tip now goes to the guy that fixes that robot. Heck there may even be a PR2 in the back cooking your food for you, reducing cost and goes to the US's outsourcing problem.
He even got the CDC and the Middle East and stuxnet, and flame and probably others I/we don't know about. Also the AI which runs results on his marketing ad, and the rise of patent litigation in marketing as a natural progression. NASA, well whatever took over getting budget cuts, and our falling interest in space and anything beyond Earth.
And orbital communities that are in the process of being built(15 years from now), to replace the ISS, and set up a better place to live, since we apparently destroyed Earth or most of it.
All in all, it's very realistic and probably a lot closer then 15 years, ok well most of it anyways.