- Plant based foods will be ubiquitous and largely replace meats.
- Electric cars will take a large share of roads, although traditional combustion engines will still be very common. We will see more electric heavy industry vehicles (construction, mining, heavy ship freight, perhaps even airplanes) replace traditional combustion vehicles.
- Self driving cars will be around more, and work well enough that many drivers will hardly be driving anymore. The new lack of focus on the road will create a new set of safety concerns and legal matters.
- We will see many new weather extremes due to climate change. Record breaking temperatures and intense storms, especially along the equator. The sea levels will rise at an increasing rate.
- World will still be dependent on fossil fuels for its energy source, although coal will share a much smaller percentage of that then today as dirty industries move to natural gas. Renewables and nuclear will continue to increase in the share, but still in the minority compared to fossil fuels.
- US becomes more isolationist in world policy as it increasingly faces the inward challenges of multiple nationwide health epidemics that will cripple the country (drug abuse, rising healthcare costs, aging population, mental/behavior health illnesses, poor healthcare education, obesity, diabetes).
- China will lead the world in wireless technology and data processing infrastructure. Heavy data processing is begins to be offloaded to public infrastructure and seen as a public utility.
- China forcefully takes over the Taiwanese government. The western world scoffs, there are some protests in major urban areas. But for the most part everyone moves on.
- A cheaper form of launching payloads into orbit around the earth will be introduced, likely a combination of new technologies and a more established infrastructure for spaceflight, making spaceflight significantly cheaper.
- Mass surveillance by both government and private industry becomes the norm.
- Controversial legal regulations will be created to address the dangers of the court of public opinion and the engineering of social media.
- AI based virtual companions becomes a new industry to counter balance the rise of loneliness, depression, and other health problems.
- Freezing eggs or sperm cells for the purpose of eventual procreation, especially among aging women, will become a new industry.
- The end of cable TV, but the beginning of "cable streaming."
More people convert to bokononism to learn the ways of their flat earthed, astrological antivaxxer forerunners in how to be happy in an increasingly depressing decade. /s
- Electric cars will take a large share of roads, although traditional combustion engines will still be very common. We will see more electric heavy industry vehicles (construction, mining, heavy ship freight, perhaps even airplanes) replace traditional combustion vehicles.
- Self driving cars will be around more, and work well enough that many drivers will hardly be driving anymore. The new lack of focus on the road will create a new set of safety concerns and legal matters.
- We will see many new weather extremes due to climate change. Record breaking temperatures and intense storms, especially along the equator. The sea levels will rise at an increasing rate.
- World will still be dependent on fossil fuels for its energy source, although coal will share a much smaller percentage of that then today as dirty industries move to natural gas. Renewables and nuclear will continue to increase in the share, but still in the minority compared to fossil fuels.
- US becomes more isolationist in world policy as it increasingly faces the inward challenges of multiple nationwide health epidemics that will cripple the country (drug abuse, rising healthcare costs, aging population, mental/behavior health illnesses, poor healthcare education, obesity, diabetes).
- China will lead the world in wireless technology and data processing infrastructure. Heavy data processing is begins to be offloaded to public infrastructure and seen as a public utility.
- China forcefully takes over the Taiwanese government. The western world scoffs, there are some protests in major urban areas. But for the most part everyone moves on.
- A cheaper form of launching payloads into orbit around the earth will be introduced, likely a combination of new technologies and a more established infrastructure for spaceflight, making spaceflight significantly cheaper.
- Mass surveillance by both government and private industry becomes the norm.
- Controversial legal regulations will be created to address the dangers of the court of public opinion and the engineering of social media.
- AI based virtual companions becomes a new industry to counter balance the rise of loneliness, depression, and other health problems.
- Freezing eggs or sperm cells for the purpose of eventual procreation, especially among aging women, will become a new industry.
- The end of cable TV, but the beginning of "cable streaming."
More people convert to bokononism to learn the ways of their flat earthed, astrological antivaxxer forerunners in how to be happy in an increasingly depressing decade. /s