- Artificial life forms and pet becomes mainstream.
- First experimental artificial wombs for human babies put to test.
- Current HIV becomes curable mainstream but another mutation will take its place. It will come from US or Europe.
- War will break out in different parts of the world and first AI use for the purpose of killing people.
- On demand AI therapist using a wearable on your wrist as suicide rates will go up in developed countries. It will be recommended by doctors.
- Linux on desktop finally becomes mainstream. This time, for sure.
- Biohackers will grow in popularity and it will be a mainstream trend to experiment with kits from new startups. Super soldiers, no sleep brian and hairy (cat girls yay) stuff will emerge.
- There will be companies awarding trophies and money for sterilizing people.
- Something like ransom ware but alive (self aware AIware) will take out half the internet for a short duration.
- New porn startups raking in billions using ml generated on demand pornography and self aware toys, perhaps actual testing of sex robots. It could be a new genre of porn too.
- Catastrophic economic collapse. UBI goes live in many countries.
- A huge portion of teachers will get replaced by interactive digital rooms.
- Deep[insert] takes over and becomes a major weapon to tackle and defend against.
- Average tech user becomes dumber than current average.
- Rust becomes top choice for development and Javascript will become legacy codebase.
- Thousands of people will die protesting against surveillance states and right to privacy but with very little progress.
- We will see companies putting their own os in the browser using wasm and delivering their apps inside that.
- There will be a "Hack Your P*nis" post on HN.
Yes, you who is looking at this and thinking "woah this guy predicted almost everything right"
- Self-driving cars finally become a reality. But in the same year, teleportation is invented.
- New encryption algorithms become available in browsers to protect against quantum computing. However, it turns out that the NSA saved all our raw HTTPS traffic of the last decade or so.
- Google open sources new AI technology. But ironically, the AI becomes capable of detecting and removing ads.
- Some smart guy figures out the rules of the universe and publishes them in an academic journal. He receives some prize money, but of course he remains a poor bloke in comparison to Jeff Bezos who is obviously much smarter.
- 23andme starts an online dating platform based on genetic data.
- Despite many promises, there are no improvements in battery tech.
I think it has a high chance of happening. Most of the bigger frameworks and libraries have moved to typescript and with remaining on typings or ts rewrite. Deno will probably take over.
A new interesting phenomenon I noticed is few bigger frameworks now have their core written in rust with language agnostic interface on top.
- Desktop usage will decline for gaming as well as general use. Consoles, iPads, chromebooks like devices will take over here.
- States will compel companies to install their mandatory citizenware and China like social credit will emerge.
- More applications will move to web using wasm. Major defaults by companies will be more fucked up than today as they stop caring so users will be driven towards places where they can customize and have sane defaults.
- Rise of open source software targeting Linux first before anything else.
Since desktop will target professionals more than they do now and those tend to be privacy-freedom focused, the choice is clear.
- Most crypto currencies will die or come close to it including bitcoin. Centralized currency owned by private companies will take over.
- Nuclear tragedy will happen
- Boom of new wearables and micro tech as we finally make a breakthrough in battery/energy tech.
- Major advancement in sex reassignment surgery.
- Virtual characters running for some sort of election somewhere.
- I have a hunch that thousands if not millions of people will die in an unexpected calamity (earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanos, epidemic etc)
- Either Mind controlled or controlling tech. One will surely hit the plate.
- Movements similar to genocide and eugenics will increasingly get popular.
- Hollywood butchers anime by pushing more live action crap. We see huge decline in the creativity and diversity as a whole despite broader audience and more funding than before.
- Ask HN: is IRC still alive?
- Most movies will become interactive in some form.
- Major advancement in architecture. 3D printed houses become viable for rich and techies. Focus will be on making them transportable.
- 3D printing gives rise to a new chain of clothing, accessories, devices, games, drugs, organ transplants and food. People will sell the design instead of the physical product. Online retail that depends on physical shipping will see slow down in growth.
- Lot of minor and some major surgeries will have automation taking over, although it will be in the testing phase for another decade or more.
- Even more accessible and stronger forms of synthetic drugs. Hallucinogen will be legalized in most developed countries and used for treatment.
Drug development will be driven by simulations and machine learning.
- Some kind of regulation that will force tech companies to add mandatory form of parental control and have to go through certification.
- Schools will have AI driven monitoring system which will help them straighten out kids who won't pay attention in classes. They may have to wear school provided wearable which will track their heart rates along with other stuff such as sleep and diet. Workplaces might have something like this too especially low to mid skilled labor intensive tasks that won't be automated yet.
- China will become major exporter of surveillance tech along with India and Singapore.
- Self defense AI drone with taser/gas or soft gun for police. Someone will use drones and remote controlled equipment for terrorist attacks. Operating drones will require license and training.
- Legal euthanasia will become more acceptable. Suicide rate denial with eventual acceptance of problem from the government and people.
- More cyborgs. Advancement in devices operated using nervous system.
- Amazon becomes big provider for retail businesses. It will provide infrastructure and hardware for friction free experience (cashierless checkouts, better discoverability)
- Smart clothes? Maybe not quite but I think gesture control or assistant attached to it might become popular.
- Artificial life forms and pet becomes mainstream.
- First experimental artificial wombs for human babies put to test.
- Current HIV becomes curable mainstream but another mutation will take its place. It will come from US or Europe.
- War will break out in different parts of the world and first AI use for the purpose of killing people.
- On demand AI therapist using a wearable on your wrist as suicide rates will go up in developed countries. It will be recommended by doctors.
- Linux on desktop finally becomes mainstream. This time, for sure.
- Biohackers will grow in popularity and it will be a mainstream trend to experiment with kits from new startups. Super soldiers, no sleep brian and hairy (cat girls yay) stuff will emerge.
- There will be companies awarding trophies and money for sterilizing people.
- Something like ransom ware but alive (self aware AIware) will take out half the internet for a short duration.
- New porn startups raking in billions using ml generated on demand pornography and self aware toys, perhaps actual testing of sex robots. It could be a new genre of porn too.
- Catastrophic economic collapse. UBI goes live in many countries.
- A huge portion of teachers will get replaced by interactive digital rooms.
- Deep[insert] takes over and becomes a major weapon to tackle and defend against.
- Average tech user becomes dumber than current average.
- Rust becomes top choice for development and Javascript will become legacy codebase.
- Thousands of people will die protesting against surveillance states and right to privacy but with very little progress.
- We will see companies putting their own os in the browser using wasm and delivering their apps inside that.
- There will be a "Hack Your P*nis" post on HN.
Yes, you who is looking at this and thinking "woah this guy predicted almost everything right"
edit: added more.