- 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.
- 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.