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Apple will continue to alienate their traditional consumers, but will maintain relevant through aggressive release cycles, new tech, and ecosystem lockin.
Electric cars will gain significant market share of new vehicles, but won't cross 50% of consumer cars.
Driverless cars will exist in a small sector of use cases.
Rick and Morty becomes this generation's South Park.
Gen Z will have less kids as they enter adulthood.
China's growth as a world power will let them get away with more human rights abuses.
A big recession/depression will start caused from student loan debt, an aging population, automation, stagnating wages, increasing rents, increasing wealth inequality, and climate change.
A well-thought out UBI and tax reform plan will be proposed and gain populist appeal.
There will be more large scale populist protests worldwide.
An antitrust case will be started against Google.
Public transit becomes much, much better
Fake meat increases to grow in popularity as veganism and vegetarianism increases in younger populations.
Some places will place a tax on red meat
There will be another high profile death ruled as a suicide that creates conspiracy theories.
Automation enters the market before proper legislation happens.
AI and deepfakes become heavily abused before becoming regulated, but the damage had already been done.
In general, legislation will happen too late.
Amazon will find a way to compete more directly with Google and Facebook. The internet becomes a worse off place because of it.
Adobe will release a cloud computing platform for their software.
Linux gains significant, but not competitive, market share as cloud based computing and postmarketOS become more consumer friendly.
Scientists will discover the secret to the universe is actually 43.
Cryptocurrency won't gain significant relevance
Climate change will continue to get worse and the market will continue to prevent dramatic change to happen.
Most people will still be complacent like they are today.
Cannabis will be legalized medicinally nationwide, but will remain illegal on the state level.
Ketamine treatment becomes easier to obtain and has better results vs placebo than other antidepressants.
Art continues to get worse
A republican presidential candidate will run on a platform "saving the children" that is only going to make the future worse but the present better.
Flavored vape juice will become legal again.
A high profile tech celebrity (Bezos, Gates, Musk, or a new startup probably) will win a Nobel Prize. Some HN'ers won't be happy about it.
Nuclear doesn't gain traction but still remains a pipe dream for a lot of people.
Natural disasters are going to cause massive problems, death, and some violence.
Netflix becomes close to being irrelevant but somehow stays competitive.
Apple will continue to alienate their traditional consumers, but will maintain relevant through aggressive release cycles, new tech, and ecosystem lockin.
Electric cars will gain significant market share of new vehicles, but won't cross 50% of consumer cars.
Driverless cars will exist in a small sector of use cases.
Rick and Morty becomes this generation's South Park.
Gen Z will have less kids as they enter adulthood.
China's growth as a world power will let them get away with more human rights abuses.
A big recession/depression will start caused from student loan debt, an aging population, automation, stagnating wages, increasing rents, increasing wealth inequality, and climate change.
A well-thought out UBI and tax reform plan will be proposed and gain populist appeal.
There will be more large scale populist protests worldwide.
An antitrust case will be started against Google.
Public transit becomes much, much better
Fake meat increases to grow in popularity as veganism and vegetarianism increases in younger populations.
Some places will place a tax on red meat
There will be another high profile death ruled as a suicide that creates conspiracy theories.
Automation enters the market before proper legislation happens.
AI and deepfakes become heavily abused before becoming regulated, but the damage had already been done.
In general, legislation will happen too late.
Amazon will find a way to compete more directly with Google and Facebook. The internet becomes a worse off place because of it.
Adobe will release a cloud computing platform for their software.
Linux gains significant, but not competitive, market share as cloud based computing and postmarketOS become more consumer friendly.
Scientists will discover the secret to the universe is actually 43.
Cryptocurrency won't gain significant relevance
Climate change will continue to get worse and the market will continue to prevent dramatic change to happen.
Most people will still be complacent like they are today.
Cannabis will be legalized medicinally nationwide, but will remain illegal on the state level.
Ketamine treatment becomes easier to obtain and has better results vs placebo than other antidepressants.
Art continues to get worse
A republican presidential candidate will run on a platform "saving the children" that is only going to make the future worse but the present better.
Flavored vape juice will become legal again.
A high profile tech celebrity (Bezos, Gates, Musk, or a new startup probably) will win a Nobel Prize. Some HN'ers won't be happy about it.
Nuclear doesn't gain traction but still remains a pipe dream for a lot of people.
Natural disasters are going to cause massive problems, death, and some violence.
Netflix becomes close to being irrelevant but somehow stays competitive.