* Companies will grow further until they overpower nation states. Neither the West nor China can break them up since they are the players in the economic wars.

* Companies will grow further until they overpower nation states. Neither the West nor China can break them up since they are the players in the economic wars. They need the size to finance the ever increasing costs of technological progress. * There will be general artificial intelligence. Somebody will get it right this time because all components are available outside of academia. A team without an agenda will come up with the right combination by chance. * At the end of the decade, people will design the genetic setup of 'their' children * We will give up on preserving nature and embrace global warming. A new metropolis will be created from all the people who are forced to settle somewhere else. Established players will strengthen their borders but somebody will use that opportunity. I can imagine a city in Saudi Arabia but it could also be a special economic zone in China. * The Chinese social credit system will be so successful that many other countries will introduce it, too. * Energy will become scarce because all is needed for simulations and encryption attacks