1. Sustainable electricity will dominate and the cost of electricity will shrink to near zero. 2. Manufacturing will catch a second wind. As software principle

1. Sustainable electricity will dominate and the cost of electricity will shrink to near zero. 2. Manufacturing will catch a second wind. As software principles and cheap electricity take effect, the cost of experimentation will fall and we will become agile at creating physical products, from smart devices to city blocks. 3. Automobile traffic will get worse. 4. At the end of the decade, cities will begin a redesign phase with the intention of solving human problems. This will be hastened by major gains in manufacturing and improved understandings in biological science. 5. We will see the first generation of children growing up with primary personal computers that don’t rely on visual interfaces. 6. Depression and mental illness will become an increasingly major political focus. 7. Olfactory “AR” will offer a consumer product breakthrough involving near-direct emotional and memory manipulation. 8. China will begin mass application of genetic modification of humans.