- Technology further consolidates. Regulations designed to keep us "safe" make it impossible or impractical for the garage-based startup of yesteryear.
- Apple remains big but gradually loses its influence.
- As many people here are saying "offline" will be a thing. But in contrast, there will also be more people who will 100% buy into plugging-in to the Matrix in any way possible. The MSM will find ways to portray offliners as kooks because offliners don't contribute to the voluntary surveillance apparatus. We already see this treatment of people who are self-reliant(i.e. if you prepare or live off the grid then you're a nutcase who is obsessed with doomsday and is possibly dangerous)
- The tech bubble will pop and lots of developer jobs will go away. We only need so many CRUD apps.
- Population continues to decline because there are too many good alternatives to risky activities like sex and having families.
- As more boomers and early X-ers retire or die off, more white-collar jobs will become fully or mostly remote.
- "Side hustles" will become a greater thing than it currently is. More people will want out of wage slavery and find ways to make money on their own or start their own businesses. But establishment goverments love employment because it's a reliable tax stream and keeps people dependent on the supply chain. Just like with offliners, we will start to hear a narrative that trying to make your own success is somehow unsavory.
- The field of psychology will see some reform and we will see significant advances in the ways that we treat neurological disorders.
- Hardware will become even more closed and impossible to repair or modify. Fewer hardware will be cross-compatible. If you want everything to be connected to your smart home, then you'll have to exclusively buy Google devices, or Samsung, or Amazon.
- Universities face decline and a reform by the end of the decade. Because most of a university's overhead can be done away with using technology and the internet, there will be very little reason to gatekeep people out of top institutions.
- Soda industry declines because enough people will wise up to the sugar menace. Today's nutritionists will be gradually replaced with ones that actually understand that a calorie isn't simply a calorie.
- Humankind will have not landed on Mars.
- The internet will become more fractured, with different nations deciding to wall themselves off.
- China's social credit system will be emulated in the United States. Don't worry, it will keep us saaaaaaffffe.
- Companies like Google expand to a point where they begin to resemble proto-governments.
- LinkedIn becomes less relevant and a challenger approaches.
- JavaScript will still be around in 2030 but have optional type-annotations.
- People continue to back away from atheism and nihilism, and will find ways to go back to religion or find spirituality. Science will be even more cherry-picked than it is now.
- The distal effects of negative interest rates and the bursting of the corporate debt bubble will trigger an economic adjustment. This will create an opportunity for industries to replace more jobs with automation, and this economy will create civil unrest. Those in the top 5% will be mostly unaffected.
- Most big Linux distros will still use X.org.
- Hollywood becomes more bland because the global market will matter far more than those in United States and Europe, meaning that movies will be pure spectacle with no nuance or themes that will rock the boat.
- Basic healthcare becomes revolutionized and streamlined. Imagine CVS Minute-Clinics, but far more ubiquitous and advanced, with nurses who use computers with AI to diagnose symptoms and consult with doctors remotely.
- Apple remains big but gradually loses its influence.
- As many people here are saying "offline" will be a thing. But in contrast, there will also be more people who will 100% buy into plugging-in to the Matrix in any way possible. The MSM will find ways to portray offliners as kooks because offliners don't contribute to the voluntary surveillance apparatus. We already see this treatment of people who are self-reliant(i.e. if you prepare or live off the grid then you're a nutcase who is obsessed with doomsday and is possibly dangerous)
- The tech bubble will pop and lots of developer jobs will go away. We only need so many CRUD apps.
- Population continues to decline because there are too many good alternatives to risky activities like sex and having families.
- As more boomers and early X-ers retire or die off, more white-collar jobs will become fully or mostly remote.
- "Side hustles" will become a greater thing than it currently is. More people will want out of wage slavery and find ways to make money on their own or start their own businesses. But establishment goverments love employment because it's a reliable tax stream and keeps people dependent on the supply chain. Just like with offliners, we will start to hear a narrative that trying to make your own success is somehow unsavory.
- The field of psychology will see some reform and we will see significant advances in the ways that we treat neurological disorders.
- Hardware will become even more closed and impossible to repair or modify. Fewer hardware will be cross-compatible. If you want everything to be connected to your smart home, then you'll have to exclusively buy Google devices, or Samsung, or Amazon.
- Universities face decline and a reform by the end of the decade. Because most of a university's overhead can be done away with using technology and the internet, there will be very little reason to gatekeep people out of top institutions.
- Soda industry declines because enough people will wise up to the sugar menace. Today's nutritionists will be gradually replaced with ones that actually understand that a calorie isn't simply a calorie.
- Humankind will have not landed on Mars.
- The internet will become more fractured, with different nations deciding to wall themselves off.
- China's social credit system will be emulated in the United States. Don't worry, it will keep us saaaaaaffffe.
- Companies like Google expand to a point where they begin to resemble proto-governments.
- LinkedIn becomes less relevant and a challenger approaches.
- JavaScript will still be around in 2030 but have optional type-annotations.
- People continue to back away from atheism and nihilism, and will find ways to go back to religion or find spirituality. Science will be even more cherry-picked than it is now.
- The distal effects of negative interest rates and the bursting of the corporate debt bubble will trigger an economic adjustment. This will create an opportunity for industries to replace more jobs with automation, and this economy will create civil unrest. Those in the top 5% will be mostly unaffected.
- Most big Linux distros will still use X.org.
- Hollywood becomes more bland because the global market will matter far more than those in United States and Europe, meaning that movies will be pure spectacle with no nuance or themes that will rock the boat.
- Basic healthcare becomes revolutionized and streamlined. Imagine CVS Minute-Clinics, but far more ubiquitous and advanced, with nurses who use computers with AI to diagnose symptoms and consult with doctors remotely.