Same problems, fancier technology to ignore them with. We’ll still be arguing about the same basic stuff humans have always argued about, just on whatever platform replaces TikTok.
We’ll probably look back at 2025 like we look at 2000 now. Kids will be confused that we had to physically drive cars and type on keyboards instead of just thinking our messages.
It’s easy to be so pessimistic, but no one realizes the world has always been pretty crazy. All the horrible things going on now is really nothing new.
China will almost certainly be the largest economy and the global leader in many different regards. The US is currently doing irreparable harm to itself that will be felt for decades, rendering it no longer the world super power. This is assuming there isn’t any nuclear war along the way.
Remote work will be so normal that having a physical office will seem as outdated as fax machines. Most people will live nowhere near where they “work”
Its gonna be fucked up. Civil un rest, demographic hate, class wars.
Upper middle class vs lower middle class, distinguished by nothing except how much their parents left them.
Owners vs renters.
Mass immigration will have flow on effects to our infrastructure, power supply, job supply, water supply. Cities no prepared for huge population growth drowning.
Hopefully china keeps buying australian minerals otherwise half of australias economy and cash flow stops dead.
If youre political, you probably only see doom. But I think thats the product being sold. Times are bad but times will change and in 5 years or 10 there will be new fears unlocked and many forgotten.
I think ai will change everything. How? Not sure. I just dont know. I know for sure it will change completely. Take this for example… one super simple thing. Full or near full self drive. What will traffic police do? How will cities issues parking tickets or pull people over for speeding? The city and state incomes from parking and speeding and violations will dry up. Thats just one aspect. Its gone. Things will change unpredictably.
it is not going to get better.
we will keep dividing unconsciously till we reach a certain point.
less children produced also.
the system has to collapse apparently.
Trump and the republicans will have long since ( trump is dead ofc ) cancelled all us elections. America is now aligned with Russia, china et al, and is a dictatorship. Furthermore, america has become a religious state, Trump is worshipped as the second coming, science is demoted to ‘fake news’, scientists have fled. California is in a war due to independence movement. Canada is being threatened, due to its natural resources but what is left of NATO is preventing invasion, Canada is now a nuclear state, with 10% of GDP towards the military. Europe managed to repeal a Russian invasion. Taiwan has been invaded.
Thirty years from now, the world will stand in a condition where philosophy is no longer abstract speculation but the raw language of survival. Humanity will confront the oldest questions in new forms: what is truth when artificial minds manufacture realities, what is freedom when surveillance is total, and what is justice when biology itself is altered. Existentialism will resurface with grim urgency, for individuals will struggle to find meaning in a fractured reality of hybrid humans and intelligent machines. Stoicism will once again become practical armor, teaching endurance in a world of instability and endless conflict. Transhumanist ideas will evolve into governing doctrines, shaping politics around the merging of flesh, code, and cosmic ambition. Nihilism will spread like a contagion, its allure fueling destruction and rebellion against fragile social orders. Idealist schools will attempt to stitch hope into collapsing systems, yet their visions may prove too weak against cynical pragmatism. Pragmatist thinkers, recalling the ruthless adaptability of Nobunaga, will lead wars and policies that prioritize survival over principle. Philosophy will become the battlefield of identity, for whoever defines the human condition will dominate civilization. In that age, thought itself will be a weapon sharper than any blade.
The cycles of civilizations past will provide grim blueprints for the new age of conflict and collapse. Rome’s overstretched empire will mirror Earth’s attempt to dominate colonies light-minutes away, burdened by logistics and rebellion. The Mongol Empire’s lightning-fast expansion will echo in corporate and digital empires that rise and fall within decades, leaving chaos in their wake. The grandeur of Byzantium will inspire survival enclaves that endure through cunning diplomacy, balancing loyalty and autonomy. The wealth of Mali will reflect in resource-rich but vulnerable colonies, strong in economy but fragile in defense. Carthage will reappear in commercial powers undone by military weakness, destroyed by rivals with greater force. The Aztecs and Mayans will remind humanity that brilliance can vanish overnight when isolated from wider currents. The Greek city-states will echo in small, fiercely independent colonies, each proud, fractured, and vulnerable to domination. Persia’s model of tolerance will inspire hybrid societies where humans and machines coexist in delicate unity. These parallels will remind humanity that no empire, no matter how advanced, escapes the pattern of rise and ruin. The lessons of history will repeat across planets and stars, magnified in scope but unchanged in essence.
World War II will cast its shadow forward as a blueprint for total mobilization and annihilation. Blitzkrieg will transform into cyberstrikes and orbital assaults, collapsing defenses before armies can respond. Pearl Harbor will reappear in sudden orbital bombardments, attacks from above that leave no time for retaliation. Propaganda will dominate as powerfully as in the 1930s, where information becomes as decisive as tanks. Genocide will threaten new groups, whether synthetic beings denied rights or altered humans cast out as abominations. The Holocaust will remain a warning, but its lessons may be ignored as dehumanization evolves in new forms. Nuclear fire will be replaced—or joined—by planetary weapons: redirected asteroids, climate sabotage, and orbital lasers. Alliances will be fragile, mirroring the Axis and Allies, as nations and colonies form coalitions against authoritarian blocs. The cost of war will be catastrophic, yet ambition will blind leaders to the danger of collapse. As before, humanity may only learn too late that victory is indistinguishable from ruin.
The Russian-Ukrainian war will be remembered as the prototype of postmodern conflict. Its blurred boundaries between peace and war, truth and propaganda, will become the permanent condition of global strife. Victory will not be measured by captured land but by narratives believed and endurance sustained. Sanctions, cyberattacks, and disinformation will become as decisive as tanks and artillery. Trench warfare will remain, but trenches will exist in servers, satellites, and social consciousness. Small nations will resist larger powers through adaptability, morale, and international alliances, showing that size is no guarantee of triumph. Attrition will define the future, where exhaustion replaces decisive victories. Wars will seep into daily life, indistinguishable from politics, commerce, and communication. The battlefield will be everywhere—every home, every screen, every network. The line between civilian and soldier will dissolve, as war becomes a condition of existence.
Philosophy will merge with military strategy, with thought and tactics indistinguishable in shaping outcomes. Existentialist ideals will fuel rebellion, convincing individuals to resist even in hopeless odds. Stoic endurance will harden defenders, enabling survival in sieges lasting years or decades. Pragmatists will adapt like Nobunaga, seizing every advantage regardless of morality. Idealists will struggle, hoping to unite through visions of progress but vulnerable to manipulation. Metaphysical debates will decide material battles, for belief will sustain armies when resources fail. War colleges will teach ethics and metaphysics alongside strategy, recognizing that victory depends as much on faith as on weapons. Ideology will become a weapon, its power greater than any missile or machine. The battlefield of the mind will decide the battlefield of the stars. In the end, strategy will be written not only in blood, but in thought.
Civilizations thirty years from now will live and die by the same patterns that governed the past. Empires will rise with the arrogance of gods, only to collapse with the silence of forgotten tribes. Philosophy, science, and war will form the eternal triad shaping destiny, weaving meaning from destruction. The lessons of Oda, the Civil War, World War II, and Ukraine will repeat on larger stages, written not in nations but in planets. Civilizations will fracture, identities will collide, and the stars will become both prize and prison. Resilience will remain humanity’s defining trait, the ability to endure even through self-inflicted ruin. Monuments of Earth will echo in colonies of Mars, just as ruins of Rome echo today. The galaxy will loom as reminder of smallness and ambition, both humbling and haunting. The final question will not be whether humanity survives, but what form it takes after endless contradictions. History will not end—it will expand, its stage now written across the stars.
I think the upward trajectory of carbon emissions is a clear indicator we’re just nowhere close to the 2030 deadline scientists gave humanity to avoid the worst of climate disaster.
So we’re likely going to be hitting the +3°C global average increase at this point, which is pretty much the worst scenario possible.
While we won’t get be seeing the worst of the effects in 30 years, we will be seeing multiple annual storms that inflict billions of dollars in damage, which will fundamentally alter how and where humanity can safely live on earth.
Because of rising heat near the equator, we can expect roughly a billion people to be displaced and looking for other places to live.
We’ll also need to innovate in food production because an enormous percentage of food is growing within the tropics region of the planet, which will become increasingly uninhabitable.
This means less overall land is available to grow good. But because of exacerbating economic and ecological circumstances, the drop in humans bearing children will also continue to fail, so long as theocratic societies don’t pressure the public to reproduce, or deny access to reproductive education.
We’re also headed towards one of two roads regarding egalitarian living: one that sees a large scale end to the practice, with oligarchs using advanced AI and robotics to monitor and control the population, or one where the public reasserts itself and begins to tax the super wealthy, democratize coal technologies like automated manufacturing and other key infrastructure for modern life.
Because of the trajectory at which the oligarchy is accelerating, we have at most two more election cycles to find the leverage to turn that around. After that, innovations in their ability to control public attention, obedience, and resistance will be so far beyond reach that it will be functionally impossible without open war on them, not unlike what we are seeing in the Gen Z Revolution.
Because of AI innovations, a lack of viable jobs will result in a new form of economic normalcy, where basic goods and services are provided by corporate entities rather than governmental ones.
Highly basic standards of living will be offered in exchange for menial and increasingly unsafe work, as there will still be tasks that humans could be given in a cost-effective way, so long as thrive reached a low enough standard of living that they are cheaper than using machines. This could take the form of things we see poor Chinese people doing now, like scrap diving in tech landfills, mining operations, and more.
Because we’ve seen the middle income workers shrink in size and wealth by more than half in the past decade, this fork in the road will mean the difference Bergen a restoration of middle class living, where collective ownership of the automated systems, manufacturing, and other innovations of wealth distribute to all, or we see the total collapse of wealth ownership among the average human to a degree that exceeds even that of the feudal era.
In an effort to keep limitless growth going, those who still command the wealth of the world will be seeking evermore condensed models of business, competition, and acquisition.
Because the number of companies publicly traded in the US have been cut in half in the last 20 years, this trend is very likely to increase substantially leaving us with perhaps only 1-10% of that volume of businesses we had 20 years prior, all of whom will be partly owned by parent companies, not unlike a communist state owning a share of each business.
The difference being of course, that none of those profits will reach the public.
Because individual people won’t actually have wealth, the entirety of the economic activity will instead be about rapid exchanges of resources, as carved out territories exchange materials for automated processing. These operations will then be used to acquire more raw materials in trade with the other corporations, each of whom collectively serve the owner class.
Because ownership is perpetually contracting, even the investor class will fall out of favor with the absolute richest, and so the most fortunate 1% of mankind that still has access to any standard of living will likely be those with proximity and access to providing what’s needed to serve the desires of the 0.01% who still control everything.
And around the world, just as they did in feudal times, the poorest and most desperate will worship these kings and queens like living gods. And it will never occur to three majority of them to rebel because only those at the end of their lives will have any inkling of how much they lost.
No more drivers on the road. All private transportation is automated
Travel to the moon is commonplace. Settlement with a restaurant and hotel there.
Energy is free and there is an endless supply.
Life expectancy will be over 100.
The very rich will have their living decapitated heads placed into a titanium solar powered box and wired to a computer. Then they will be shot into space to become a satellite. They will be basically be immortal and in a constant dream state until an asteroid hits them thousands of years from now.
Technology: generalist AI will not be as profitable as we expect. Big leaps in tech are likely to come from Europe and SEA, primarily medical (thanks to crispr+alphafold) and in energy storage. Life will be found on another planet or moon, likely Mars or europa. Hot take: nanomaterials production will finally hit maturity
Military: the US will gradually lose its military advantage as China and India encroach on it. Warfare will shift toward distributed systems of drones and energy weaponry that can take them out quickly. Taiwan will not be invaded. Hot take: the space militarization treaty will finally be broken by either the US or China.
Politics: the global rise of fascism will subside without global war due to the influence of the internet. Civil wars may become more common. The Indian government will slowly modernize at about the rate that Nigeria is, leading them both to hit the international scene with similar presences. Hot take: China will liberalize slowly, without revolution, as the CCP loses cohesion and splits into factions.
Economics: the US will not be the global epicenter of economic activity. The wealth gap will continue to grow in low-development economies and will shrink in high-development economies that are post-fascist. The largest growth sectors will be medical and service. Hot take: the economies of south America will boom into international acclaim, specifically Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and Colombia.
Cultural: global media consumption will continue its diversification. Baliwood will have its first international hit in the US. Progressivism will rise in popularity, as will populism. Gay and womens rights will slowly expand in the middle east. Hot take: social media will see massive health campaigns against it, and a subsequent drop in popularity.
Climate: we will hit peak climate emissions due to the now cost-effective electrification and power generation from renewable. Ocean acidification will continue unimpeded and decimate ocean ecosystems compared to today. Unsustainable logging and overfishing will continue. Hot Take: the Northwest passage over Canada will become a major shipping lane.
Superpowers: russia (honestly already not a superpower), America will be outcompeted by China and Europe under the EU. India will, however, take longer to get up to speed due to modi.
What about trump?: trump is gonna die sooner than later, and his fascist empire will not live longer than 10-15 years. It will be racked with acts of terror much like The Troubles, especially if it lasts more than 10 years. Expect many political assassinations and an extremely unstable economy propped up by AI until either that bubble crashes or Trump is dethroned in some way. Hot take: if he dies by assassination, it won’t be from the left wing at all, and instead be from an ultra nationalist right winger.
Admittedly some of these “hot takes” arent so hot. Canada is already prepping for the northwest passage for example. But that’s ok, thanks to OP for giving me a chance to write all this out
Comments
what world?
By living for three more decades.
🔥🗑️🔥
I see him lost
It’ll keep moving around a big ball of fire
It’s going to be the same but with foldable smartphones for some reason
Probably from 6 feet under.
With dirt on me
Doomed
Same problems, fancier technology to ignore them with. We’ll still be arguing about the same basic stuff humans have always argued about, just on whatever platform replaces TikTok.
We’ll probably look back at 2025 like we look at 2000 now. Kids will be confused that we had to physically drive cars and type on keyboards instead of just thinking our messages.
Mad max but with more WIFI
Several civil wars, possibly a world war but I also think AI will have risen and fallen by then
Hopefully, with my eyes
It’s easy to be so pessimistic, but no one realizes the world has always been pretty crazy. All the horrible things going on now is really nothing new.
China will almost certainly be the largest economy and the global leader in many different regards. The US is currently doing irreparable harm to itself that will be felt for decades, rendering it no longer the world super power. This is assuming there isn’t any nuclear war along the way.
Totally F’d 🥴
WW3
humanity will be dead by then..along with most of nature.
Unfortunately democracies are being assaulted from every side and i dont see them surviving…dictatorship will eventually take over…
I hope I don’t.
In the toilet.
We’re never going to get flying cars or real hoverboards 🙁
Other than a lot of technological advancements, society as a whole won’t be all that different. Cultures don’t really change that quickly.
Well it depends on what happens with ai imho. Best case, utopia, worst case doom, and likely case, much the same but worse than today,
A lot more desalination plants and vertical farms. Phoenix will probably be mostly underground by then.
A lot of biblical stuff
Remote work will be so normal that having a physical office will seem as outdated as fax machines. Most people will live nowhere near where they “work”
Oxygen will require a subscription.
Pretty poorly educated. ChatGPT and other AI will have taken over the “thinking” for humanity.
Its gonna be fucked up. Civil un rest, demographic hate, class wars.
Upper middle class vs lower middle class, distinguished by nothing except how much their parents left them.
Owners vs renters.
Mass immigration will have flow on effects to our infrastructure, power supply, job supply, water supply. Cities no prepared for huge population growth drowning.
Hopefully china keeps buying australian minerals otherwise half of australias economy and cash flow stops dead.
It would have to be better than now. It can’t stay this bad for that long
Underground
An absolute dumpster fire.
In thirty years we’ll either be on a fast track to Star Trek or Mad Max.
If we don’t destroy ourselves through wars climate change is going to absloutly fuck us
Everyone lying dead in the streets as a result of horrible things caused by their own doing.
If we’re lucky? some humans will have survived long enough to keep the species going…
If youre political, you probably only see doom. But I think thats the product being sold. Times are bad but times will change and in 5 years or 10 there will be new fears unlocked and many forgotten.
I think ai will change everything. How? Not sure. I just dont know. I know for sure it will change completely. Take this for example… one super simple thing. Full or near full self drive. What will traffic police do? How will cities issues parking tickets or pull people over for speeding? The city and state incomes from parking and speeding and violations will dry up. Thats just one aspect. Its gone. Things will change unpredictably.
BOOM!
Ever widening gap between poor and rich
I probably won’t
Like a dumpster fire full of hair spray.
it is not going to get better.
we will keep dividing unconsciously till we reach a certain point.
less children produced also.
the system has to collapse apparently.
Probably with a more powerful contact prescription
Trump and the republicans will have long since ( trump is dead ofc ) cancelled all us elections. America is now aligned with Russia, china et al, and is a dictatorship. Furthermore, america has become a religious state, Trump is worshipped as the second coming, science is demoted to ‘fake news’, scientists have fled. California is in a war due to independence movement. Canada is being threatened, due to its natural resources but what is left of NATO is preventing invasion, Canada is now a nuclear state, with 10% of GDP towards the military. Europe managed to repeal a Russian invasion. Taiwan has been invaded.
War, ruined civilization, rising of religious cults, famine, global migration, fight for fresh water resources, very different values, new counties.
Honestly, smooth glass or a smoking crater.
☠️💣
Thirty years from now, the world will stand in a condition where philosophy is no longer abstract speculation but the raw language of survival. Humanity will confront the oldest questions in new forms: what is truth when artificial minds manufacture realities, what is freedom when surveillance is total, and what is justice when biology itself is altered. Existentialism will resurface with grim urgency, for individuals will struggle to find meaning in a fractured reality of hybrid humans and intelligent machines. Stoicism will once again become practical armor, teaching endurance in a world of instability and endless conflict. Transhumanist ideas will evolve into governing doctrines, shaping politics around the merging of flesh, code, and cosmic ambition. Nihilism will spread like a contagion, its allure fueling destruction and rebellion against fragile social orders. Idealist schools will attempt to stitch hope into collapsing systems, yet their visions may prove too weak against cynical pragmatism. Pragmatist thinkers, recalling the ruthless adaptability of Nobunaga, will lead wars and policies that prioritize survival over principle. Philosophy will become the battlefield of identity, for whoever defines the human condition will dominate civilization. In that age, thought itself will be a weapon sharper than any blade.
The cycles of civilizations past will provide grim blueprints for the new age of conflict and collapse. Rome’s overstretched empire will mirror Earth’s attempt to dominate colonies light-minutes away, burdened by logistics and rebellion. The Mongol Empire’s lightning-fast expansion will echo in corporate and digital empires that rise and fall within decades, leaving chaos in their wake. The grandeur of Byzantium will inspire survival enclaves that endure through cunning diplomacy, balancing loyalty and autonomy. The wealth of Mali will reflect in resource-rich but vulnerable colonies, strong in economy but fragile in defense. Carthage will reappear in commercial powers undone by military weakness, destroyed by rivals with greater force. The Aztecs and Mayans will remind humanity that brilliance can vanish overnight when isolated from wider currents. The Greek city-states will echo in small, fiercely independent colonies, each proud, fractured, and vulnerable to domination. Persia’s model of tolerance will inspire hybrid societies where humans and machines coexist in delicate unity. These parallels will remind humanity that no empire, no matter how advanced, escapes the pattern of rise and ruin. The lessons of history will repeat across planets and stars, magnified in scope but unchanged in essence.
World War II will cast its shadow forward as a blueprint for total mobilization and annihilation. Blitzkrieg will transform into cyberstrikes and orbital assaults, collapsing defenses before armies can respond. Pearl Harbor will reappear in sudden orbital bombardments, attacks from above that leave no time for retaliation. Propaganda will dominate as powerfully as in the 1930s, where information becomes as decisive as tanks. Genocide will threaten new groups, whether synthetic beings denied rights or altered humans cast out as abominations. The Holocaust will remain a warning, but its lessons may be ignored as dehumanization evolves in new forms. Nuclear fire will be replaced—or joined—by planetary weapons: redirected asteroids, climate sabotage, and orbital lasers. Alliances will be fragile, mirroring the Axis and Allies, as nations and colonies form coalitions against authoritarian blocs. The cost of war will be catastrophic, yet ambition will blind leaders to the danger of collapse. As before, humanity may only learn too late that victory is indistinguishable from ruin.
The Russian-Ukrainian war will be remembered as the prototype of postmodern conflict. Its blurred boundaries between peace and war, truth and propaganda, will become the permanent condition of global strife. Victory will not be measured by captured land but by narratives believed and endurance sustained. Sanctions, cyberattacks, and disinformation will become as decisive as tanks and artillery. Trench warfare will remain, but trenches will exist in servers, satellites, and social consciousness. Small nations will resist larger powers through adaptability, morale, and international alliances, showing that size is no guarantee of triumph. Attrition will define the future, where exhaustion replaces decisive victories. Wars will seep into daily life, indistinguishable from politics, commerce, and communication. The battlefield will be everywhere—every home, every screen, every network. The line between civilian and soldier will dissolve, as war becomes a condition of existence.
Philosophy will merge with military strategy, with thought and tactics indistinguishable in shaping outcomes. Existentialist ideals will fuel rebellion, convincing individuals to resist even in hopeless odds. Stoic endurance will harden defenders, enabling survival in sieges lasting years or decades. Pragmatists will adapt like Nobunaga, seizing every advantage regardless of morality. Idealists will struggle, hoping to unite through visions of progress but vulnerable to manipulation. Metaphysical debates will decide material battles, for belief will sustain armies when resources fail. War colleges will teach ethics and metaphysics alongside strategy, recognizing that victory depends as much on faith as on weapons. Ideology will become a weapon, its power greater than any missile or machine. The battlefield of the mind will decide the battlefield of the stars. In the end, strategy will be written not only in blood, but in thought.
Civilizations thirty years from now will live and die by the same patterns that governed the past. Empires will rise with the arrogance of gods, only to collapse with the silence of forgotten tribes. Philosophy, science, and war will form the eternal triad shaping destiny, weaving meaning from destruction. The lessons of Oda, the Civil War, World War II, and Ukraine will repeat on larger stages, written not in nations but in planets. Civilizations will fracture, identities will collide, and the stars will become both prize and prison. Resilience will remain humanity’s defining trait, the ability to endure even through self-inflicted ruin. Monuments of Earth will echo in colonies of Mars, just as ruins of Rome echo today. The galaxy will loom as reminder of smallness and ambition, both humbling and haunting. The final question will not be whether humanity survives, but what form it takes after endless contradictions. History will not end—it will expand, its stage now written across the stars.
The gap between rich and poor will be even more extreme, and civil unrest will be at an all time high.
I won’t.
I’ll be 90, so will my wife, s-i-l and my brother will be pushing 90
my son and d-i-l will be pushing 50
my nephew will be pushing 50
aside from everyone being healthy and happy or at least in a place beyond any pain, IDGAF about the world
Lol. There will be no world in 30 years.
I think the upward trajectory of carbon emissions is a clear indicator we’re just nowhere close to the 2030 deadline scientists gave humanity to avoid the worst of climate disaster.
So we’re likely going to be hitting the +3°C global average increase at this point, which is pretty much the worst scenario possible.
While we won’t get be seeing the worst of the effects in 30 years, we will be seeing multiple annual storms that inflict billions of dollars in damage, which will fundamentally alter how and where humanity can safely live on earth.
Because of rising heat near the equator, we can expect roughly a billion people to be displaced and looking for other places to live.
We’ll also need to innovate in food production because an enormous percentage of food is growing within the tropics region of the planet, which will become increasingly uninhabitable.
This means less overall land is available to grow good. But because of exacerbating economic and ecological circumstances, the drop in humans bearing children will also continue to fail, so long as theocratic societies don’t pressure the public to reproduce, or deny access to reproductive education.
We’re also headed towards one of two roads regarding egalitarian living: one that sees a large scale end to the practice, with oligarchs using advanced AI and robotics to monitor and control the population, or one where the public reasserts itself and begins to tax the super wealthy, democratize coal technologies like automated manufacturing and other key infrastructure for modern life.
Because of the trajectory at which the oligarchy is accelerating, we have at most two more election cycles to find the leverage to turn that around. After that, innovations in their ability to control public attention, obedience, and resistance will be so far beyond reach that it will be functionally impossible without open war on them, not unlike what we are seeing in the Gen Z Revolution.
Because of AI innovations, a lack of viable jobs will result in a new form of economic normalcy, where basic goods and services are provided by corporate entities rather than governmental ones.
Highly basic standards of living will be offered in exchange for menial and increasingly unsafe work, as there will still be tasks that humans could be given in a cost-effective way, so long as thrive reached a low enough standard of living that they are cheaper than using machines. This could take the form of things we see poor Chinese people doing now, like scrap diving in tech landfills, mining operations, and more.
Because we’ve seen the middle income workers shrink in size and wealth by more than half in the past decade, this fork in the road will mean the difference Bergen a restoration of middle class living, where collective ownership of the automated systems, manufacturing, and other innovations of wealth distribute to all, or we see the total collapse of wealth ownership among the average human to a degree that exceeds even that of the feudal era.
In an effort to keep limitless growth going, those who still command the wealth of the world will be seeking evermore condensed models of business, competition, and acquisition.
Because the number of companies publicly traded in the US have been cut in half in the last 20 years, this trend is very likely to increase substantially leaving us with perhaps only 1-10% of that volume of businesses we had 20 years prior, all of whom will be partly owned by parent companies, not unlike a communist state owning a share of each business.
The difference being of course, that none of those profits will reach the public.
Because individual people won’t actually have wealth, the entirety of the economic activity will instead be about rapid exchanges of resources, as carved out territories exchange materials for automated processing. These operations will then be used to acquire more raw materials in trade with the other corporations, each of whom collectively serve the owner class.
Because ownership is perpetually contracting, even the investor class will fall out of favor with the absolute richest, and so the most fortunate 1% of mankind that still has access to any standard of living will likely be those with proximity and access to providing what’s needed to serve the desires of the 0.01% who still control everything.
And around the world, just as they did in feudal times, the poorest and most desperate will worship these kings and queens like living gods. And it will never occur to three majority of them to rebel because only those at the end of their lives will have any inkling of how much they lost.
Virtual reality will be like “ready player one”
No more drivers on the road. All private transportation is automated
Travel to the moon is commonplace. Settlement with a restaurant and hotel there.
Energy is free and there is an endless supply.
Life expectancy will be over 100.
The very rich will have their living decapitated heads placed into a titanium solar powered box and wired to a computer. Then they will be shot into space to become a satellite. They will be basically be immortal and in a constant dream state until an asteroid hits them thousands of years from now.
I most likely see some new technology. Maybe the iPhone 37, with a camera the size of Lil Wayne, or rudimentary robotic bodies for AI bots.
suffering badly because people ignored climate change
Hopefully getting absolutely destroyed by a MASSIVE space rock.
I prefer to believe that it is better than now.
Read Parables of the Sower
Have you ever played Fallout?
Things could go so many different ways! It’s not possible to predict.
I’m hoping for flying cars and maybe friendly aliens
I just want trump and anyone trump related to be out of power. I can’t see a future right now.
Bleak
Technology: generalist AI will not be as profitable as we expect. Big leaps in tech are likely to come from Europe and SEA, primarily medical (thanks to crispr+alphafold) and in energy storage. Life will be found on another planet or moon, likely Mars or europa. Hot take: nanomaterials production will finally hit maturity
Military: the US will gradually lose its military advantage as China and India encroach on it. Warfare will shift toward distributed systems of drones and energy weaponry that can take them out quickly. Taiwan will not be invaded. Hot take: the space militarization treaty will finally be broken by either the US or China.
Politics: the global rise of fascism will subside without global war due to the influence of the internet. Civil wars may become more common. The Indian government will slowly modernize at about the rate that Nigeria is, leading them both to hit the international scene with similar presences. Hot take: China will liberalize slowly, without revolution, as the CCP loses cohesion and splits into factions.
Economics: the US will not be the global epicenter of economic activity. The wealth gap will continue to grow in low-development economies and will shrink in high-development economies that are post-fascist. The largest growth sectors will be medical and service. Hot take: the economies of south America will boom into international acclaim, specifically Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and Colombia.
Cultural: global media consumption will continue its diversification. Baliwood will have its first international hit in the US. Progressivism will rise in popularity, as will populism. Gay and womens rights will slowly expand in the middle east. Hot take: social media will see massive health campaigns against it, and a subsequent drop in popularity.
Climate: we will hit peak climate emissions due to the now cost-effective electrification and power generation from renewable. Ocean acidification will continue unimpeded and decimate ocean ecosystems compared to today. Unsustainable logging and overfishing will continue. Hot Take: the Northwest passage over Canada will become a major shipping lane.
Superpowers: russia (honestly already not a superpower), America will be outcompeted by China and Europe under the EU. India will, however, take longer to get up to speed due to modi.
What about trump?: trump is gonna die sooner than later, and his fascist empire will not live longer than 10-15 years. It will be racked with acts of terror much like The Troubles, especially if it lasts more than 10 years. Expect many political assassinations and an extremely unstable economy propped up by AI until either that bubble crashes or Trump is dethroned in some way. Hot take: if he dies by assassination, it won’t be from the left wing at all, and instead be from an ultra nationalist right winger.
Admittedly some of these “hot takes” arent so hot. Canada is already prepping for the northwest passage for example. But that’s ok, thanks to OP for giving me a chance to write all this out
If I see it in 30 years I will be amazed because I will be 109 years old.
Sizzling dry, with some acid rain and crackling fallout storms.
Preschools will be rare and the global population will be older but using more life extending technology in countries that can afford it.
The world could feel lonelier than it already is. Fusion reactors on spaceships could open up the solar system to routine exploration and mining.
I’d give it 5 until the bombs drop, and then once humans are gone, it’ll probably be a pretty decent place.
Alot more conflicts because global warming will impact alot more nations alot more severe.