Fossil fuep dependence will be less but not by a dramatic magnitude.
The US will elect an extreme leftist to which as a response ,after 4-8 years Trump++ will be in charge
A lot more of the usual bad news stuff but with much less optimism which results in many systemic crashes.
A lot of the fad around self driving cars and ML will fade out leaving practical long term tech.
The internet's technical debt will finally call the collectors.
Dramatic move away from dependence on targeted ads to sustain web services and infra.
A payment app will take over the west like with China when they start catering to offline (cash like) transactions and please both mobile and non-mobile users (a great feat).
Deep fakes will creat a hype but fade away after a while.
Either america continues fighting both russia and china and gets torn to pieces from the inside out or most likely succumb to China, win the modern cold war against russia and give rise to China becoming a second super power rivaling america and dominating Asia and Africa,leaving Europe,parts of africa and south america (and some asian countries) to figure out how to restructure their economies. In the end it will be an energy war where the west moves away from fossil fuels and builds long term sustainable economy while everyone else enjoys cheaper fossil fuels as their sphere of influence builds up economic/military resilience against the west (I think late 40's and 50's will see everyone going green).
HN will still be the same. IRC will still be the same (less people though). Infosec will thrive while threats become even more adoptive and agile against mitigations.
International participation in foss will dramatically shape the culture and consistency of foss communities.
Consolidation of home automation/assistant technology.
Actual (dangerous), information and propaganda warfare will happen (2016+russia was nothing if you know much about WW2 ,50's america and communist propaganda)
And finally, I will likely be wrong at least 6/10 on my predictions. :)
May we all live in boring and uninteresting times!
The US will elect an extreme leftist to which as a response ,after 4-8 years Trump++ will be in charge
A lot more of the usual bad news stuff but with much less optimism which results in many systemic crashes.
A lot of the fad around self driving cars and ML will fade out leaving practical long term tech.
The internet's technical debt will finally call the collectors.
Dramatic move away from dependence on targeted ads to sustain web services and infra.
A payment app will take over the west like with China when they start catering to offline (cash like) transactions and please both mobile and non-mobile users (a great feat).
Deep fakes will creat a hype but fade away after a while.
Either america continues fighting both russia and china and gets torn to pieces from the inside out or most likely succumb to China, win the modern cold war against russia and give rise to China becoming a second super power rivaling america and dominating Asia and Africa,leaving Europe,parts of africa and south america (and some asian countries) to figure out how to restructure their economies. In the end it will be an energy war where the west moves away from fossil fuels and builds long term sustainable economy while everyone else enjoys cheaper fossil fuels as their sphere of influence builds up economic/military resilience against the west (I think late 40's and 50's will see everyone going green).
HN will still be the same. IRC will still be the same (less people though). Infosec will thrive while threats become even more adoptive and agile against mitigations.
International participation in foss will dramatically shape the culture and consistency of foss communities.
Consolidation of home automation/assistant technology.
Actual (dangerous), information and propaganda warfare will happen (2016+russia was nothing if you know much about WW2 ,50's america and communist propaganda)
And finally, I will likely be wrong at least 6/10 on my predictions. :)
May we all live in boring and uninteresting times!