- Wave of antitrust legislation takes hold and some large tech companies are broken up or forced to sell, making their owners even richer.
- traditional higher ed becomes increasingly irrelevant. A degree is still prized, especially as a way out of blue collar work, but it will be even more disconnected from one’s actual job.
- The higher ed space sees interesting new experiments with new models of tenure, teaching and delivery.
- Amazon figures out how to make online shopping suck significantly less
- samples collected from the mars 2020 mission will be definitively negative for ancient life forms
- whole brain emulation is achieved with an insect brain
- politicians on both sides use disruptions from tech and climate change to push ever more extreme positions, and run on platforms that promise easy solutions. Whether or not such disruptions are actually disruptive, the increasingly hyperbolic media will help make it sound that way as it scrambles for relevance in a hyper competitive space.
- China starts a eugenics breeding program with modified germ lines to create smarter citizens.
- GI problems continue to plague developed nations
- daily life will seem to be more complicated than ever
- the long peace continues for another decade
- we look back fondly on this post in 10 years and at what a simpler time 2020 was
I think the China eugenics prediction is possible. If one major country does it others will follow, and of course the rich will want this to no matter where they are.
- traditional higher ed becomes increasingly irrelevant. A degree is still prized, especially as a way out of blue collar work, but it will be even more disconnected from one’s actual job.
- The higher ed space sees interesting new experiments with new models of tenure, teaching and delivery.
- Amazon figures out how to make online shopping suck significantly less
- samples collected from the mars 2020 mission will be definitively negative for ancient life forms
- whole brain emulation is achieved with an insect brain
- politicians on both sides use disruptions from tech and climate change to push ever more extreme positions, and run on platforms that promise easy solutions. Whether or not such disruptions are actually disruptive, the increasingly hyperbolic media will help make it sound that way as it scrambles for relevance in a hyper competitive space.
- China starts a eugenics breeding program with modified germ lines to create smarter citizens.
- GI problems continue to plague developed nations
- daily life will seem to be more complicated than ever
- the long peace continues for another decade
- we look back fondly on this post in 10 years and at what a simpler time 2020 was