* Reddit goes the way of Digg with a mass user exodus
* Several major candidates will lose an election because of their internet usage history earlier in life
* Much of the inflation that the US hasn't seen over the past decade will come back, in line with a recession. Very few investments will be safe. It'll come at the time, or just before the time a democrat is elected to office, and retroactively blamed on that democrat.
* The evangelical movement collapses under the weight of its own cognitive dissonance, in response to a well organized criticism campaign
* Amazon suffers a major misstep of their own making and loses a significant enough amount of customer trust to affect its growth rate.
* Home prices in San Fransisco and Seattle do not fall. Homelessness is the same or worse in each area by the end of the decade.
* A major new region becomes popular for tech workers to move to, on the back of major corporations moving there rather than startups
* Startups that exist and succeed are more rare, and larger. This decade is the age of the corporate titans, and the small are agile but most cannot compete.
* No major structural reform put to climate change
* Trump re-elected
* VR remains niche
* Worldwide poverty is continuously reduced
* A civil war or conflict takes place in a european country
* As the power changes hands to millenials, countries liberalize the social safety net
* Several major candidates will lose an election because of their internet usage history earlier in life
* Much of the inflation that the US hasn't seen over the past decade will come back, in line with a recession. Very few investments will be safe. It'll come at the time, or just before the time a democrat is elected to office, and retroactively blamed on that democrat.
* The evangelical movement collapses under the weight of its own cognitive dissonance, in response to a well organized criticism campaign
* Amazon suffers a major misstep of their own making and loses a significant enough amount of customer trust to affect its growth rate.
* Home prices in San Fransisco and Seattle do not fall. Homelessness is the same or worse in each area by the end of the decade.
* A major new region becomes popular for tech workers to move to, on the back of major corporations moving there rather than startups
* Startups that exist and succeed are more rare, and larger. This decade is the age of the corporate titans, and the small are agile but most cannot compete.
* No major structural reform put to climate change
* Trump re-elected
* VR remains niche
* Worldwide poverty is continuously reduced
* A civil war or conflict takes place in a european country
* As the power changes hands to millenials, countries liberalize the social safety net