I tried to come up with some upbeat predictions but they weren't realistic (see the bottom of this comment.) So here's what I got, and it's mostly pretty bleak

I tried to come up with some upbeat predictions but they weren't realistic (see the bottom of this comment.) So here's what I got, and it's mostly pretty bleak: Major climate disasters. Fisheries collapse, crops and livestock devastated by disease, heat, drought. (~25% of the pigs in the world died last year.) Famines. Mass migrations. Unilateral geoengineering. > "People always raid before they starve." https://spaswell.wordpress.com/2016/11/18/dr-gwynne-dyer-geopolitics-in-a-hotter-world-ubc-talk-transcribed-sept-2010/ https://spaswell.wordpress.com/2016/11/18/dr-gwynne-dyer-geo... AI tools will destroy the job market for programmers. Most necessary software is already written, it just needs to be selected and configured. Governments of all kinds will use technology to lock down their subjects and this will be welcomed. Organ regeneration (-or- organ theft becomes more common.) "What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System" (youtube.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18736698 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18736698 Fusion finally. "Fusion in a magnetically-shielded-grid inertial electrostatic confinement device" (arxiv.org) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21539103 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21539103 - - - - So what about unrealistic-but-possible crazy stuff? The "Electric Universe" crackpottery turns out to be true and artificial gravity starts a huge exo-planet-bound exodus. "Cities in Flight" eh? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cities_in_Flight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cities_in_Flight Levin's lab's work leads to scientific acceptance of the personhood of Gaia. Communications are formally initiated and together we regenerate the Earth almost overnight. Humanity is welcomed (back) into galactic civilized society. Neurolinguistic Programming et. al. reaches critical mass and reprogramming yourself becomes commonplace. Reason and capability conspire to engender a mass movement to "Be excellent to each other." Humanity is welcomed (back) into galactic civilized society.