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1. No autonomous cars

2. Will be at least 2 tech starwards that go away due to financial or labor violations

3. World War involving China, Africa will be pulled into this one

4. Test camps on another planet

5. South America will become more developed.

6. Recession

7. More economic challenges in Western Europe, Canada, and the US

8. Mexico: nothing changes

9. South east asia and india labor unions.

10. Australia: bankrupcy and redemption?

11. Open Source: More bickering and a reduction of participation due to social codes ("code of conflicts")

12. Programming: A recession of interest (due to the social codes above)

13. Slack becomes corporate

14. VR: Still a fad

15. Trains: We'll see high speed rail ways in Brasil

16. We'll be teased about legistlation against shitty business practices (i.e. scooter companies who claim their business practices in the public way, facebook selling off customer data)

17. Health insurance: No idea where that's going, probably a requirement to do triage by video chat first

18. We're going to go to deployable offline apps

19. Depression: sparked by millennial demands on businesses that increase costs. I.e. flooding from SFO-> AUS, etc. This will downwardly affect the 2nd and 3rd tier cities.

20. Decrease in value of living spaces. (Problem of housing will not improve)



I see you like to go big or go home on at least some of your predictions




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