- Amazon/Apple/Netflix dominate sports coverage (pushing out e.g. Sky in the UK).
- The rise in right wing/conservative power peaks in around the mid 2020s, probably with a smallish 1st world country electing an extremist government.
- Overall politics becomes even more partisan, led by media organisations. The biggest media spenders will get elected. (This is basically true already).
- Electric cars will be widely expected to be ubiquitous but will not quite make it any 2030.
- SpaceX will land something on Mars, but not humans.
- Someone (probably either China or India) will begin landing lots of hardware on the moon.
- 5G and ridiculously low-cost chips mean lots of home automation startups; I'm maybe betting on a major new company coming from this area.
- Security consciousness peaks and tails off, next generation accept surveillance culture
- LGBT will still be marginalised; as with politics perspectives will become even more partisan.
- African nations will have a greater role in world affairs; economically and politically. Arab nations will swing toward conservative democracy. Asian nations will continue to grow economically. USA will be recognised as a declining world power in 2030.
- Europe will have a standing Army
- There will be a major war in Asia, but not Korea. It will probably also be a China/US proxy war - and I am least convinced by this prediction but: the US will lose.
- VR will still just be a toy/gaming device.
- most games consoles will start following the Wii's dual mode approach
- Folding screen phones will die off quickly
- There will be at least one major financial disaster (other than pensions).
- Crypto currency will be on the decline.
- Oh, as it seems popular... we probably don't have fully autonomous cars but the tech starts to become mainstream as a driver aide and in the second half of the decade it becomes widely adopted in the transport industry (I predict major disruption to transport/delivery industries in the 2030s; I.e automated Amazon deliveries)
- Amazon/Apple/Netflix dominate sports coverage (pushing out e.g. Sky in the UK).
- The rise in right wing/conservative power peaks in around the mid 2020s, probably with a smallish 1st world country electing an extremist government.
- Overall politics becomes even more partisan, led by media organisations. The biggest media spenders will get elected. (This is basically true already).
- Electric cars will be widely expected to be ubiquitous but will not quite make it any 2030.
- SpaceX will land something on Mars, but not humans.
- Someone (probably either China or India) will begin landing lots of hardware on the moon.
- 5G and ridiculously low-cost chips mean lots of home automation startups; I'm maybe betting on a major new company coming from this area.
- Security consciousness peaks and tails off, next generation accept surveillance culture
- LGBT will still be marginalised; as with politics perspectives will become even more partisan.
- African nations will have a greater role in world affairs; economically and politically. Arab nations will swing toward conservative democracy. Asian nations will continue to grow economically. USA will be recognised as a declining world power in 2030.
- Europe will have a standing Army
- There will be a major war in Asia, but not Korea. It will probably also be a China/US proxy war - and I am least convinced by this prediction but: the US will lose.
- VR will still just be a toy/gaming device.
- most games consoles will start following the Wii's dual mode approach
- Folding screen phones will die off quickly
- There will be at least one major financial disaster (other than pensions).
- Crypto currency will be on the decline.
- Oh, as it seems popular... we probably don't have fully autonomous cars but the tech starts to become mainstream as a driver aide and in the second half of the decade it becomes widely adopted in the transport industry (I predict major disruption to transport/delivery industries in the 2030s; I.e automated Amazon deliveries)