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Well I think we'll see at least one currently popular site/service go the way of the dodo, either through legal issues or a simple decline in popularity to the
by CM30 7y ago
Well I think we'll see at least one currently popular site/service go the way of the dodo, either through legal issues or a simple decline in popularity to the point its not profitable anymore. 10 years is a pretty long time in internet years, and it seems quite rare for a large site or service to stay popular for that amount of time (or even decades).
I still don't see the media finding a good monetisation model, and I suspect by then most of the remaining news sources run by for profit companies will have died off for good.
The games industry probably won't have changed too much by this point, since VR still seems a fair way off and streaming services are highly unpopular with current audiences. I do hold a small amount of hope that Nintendo will have realised the demand for Wario Land 6 by then, and that some sort of proper Paper Mario revival might be on the cards, but I've hoped for that for a while now. Lootboxes may be classified as gambling by then too.
Not going to predict anything web development or tech related, since those fields change a lot, and well, who knows what things will look like after 6000 different JavaScript frameworks have come and gone. All we can know there is that HTML, CSS and JavaScript will probably be used for websites and apps in some form or another.
Finally on a political note... well a schism may be on the horizon in some societies. At least, the US seems to be more and more divided between the 'left' and 'right', and the cultural values underpinning both sides seem to completely unreconcilable at this point in time. So I can see tensions building, politics becoming more divided and fraught and things getting worse until eventually, one side tries to change the law (or constitution) in a way that breaks the camel's back and things just collapse.
I also see at least one 'first world' country ending up as a dictatorship, if only because the rise of populism and authoritarianism seems to be an issue just about everywhere right now.
But those are just a few minor predictions right now.