1. Developer tools become more and more integrated, solutions become mainstream where everything is automated with your whole stack (DNS/domain, CI, Git repos,

1. Developer tools become more and more integrated, solutions become mainstream where everything is automated with your whole stack (DNS/domain, CI, Git repos, Scrum board, analytics, app/database etc) created in one click (already happening, I know). AWS buys Gitlab or Atlassian. 2. GCP fails on its goal in becoming as large as AWS/Azure 3. Data Science becomes as commonplace in software development as Agile methods, Git etc with easier to use tools (which require no actual knowledge how the math works) 4. In the developed countries electric vehicles achieve approximately 50% market share 5. Some great advancements in battery technology, which only still result to about 50% better energy density than as of now 6. Some new social media (a la Snapchat) rises, possibly based on VR or AR 7. VR & AR games become more mainstream, AR particularly with couple hit-games (perhaps similar to board games?) 8. No fusion power, and not that much progress in it And my political predictions: 1. Africa becomes the new "China", a lot of manufacturing is transferred there 2. Africa also sees a steep increase in GDP in some countries which receive these new investments (eg Nigeria, Kenya, Ethiopia perhaps) 3. China rises in political power but falls short on becoming a true superpower, mainly due to lack of soft power (Chinese culture will stay as isolated as it's now). Also while becoming the absolute best in few key industries (electronical devices mainly), won't achieve similar success in other areas (software, cars) 4. The rest of the Balkans join EU (with maybe the exception of Albania), people continue complaining about EU but still nobody else other than Britain leaves the union 5. EU deepens its military co-operation, NATO decreases in importance mostly because of USA's erratic behaviour 6. A major proxy war is fought in Middle-East, yet again. Iran contests Saudi-Arabia's dominance. Saudi-Arabia fails to transition from oil to other industries 7. Global warming will create the strongest and the most devastating hurricane yet to hit US. Deniers will still fail to see any correlation between them 8. Global warming will also create mass starvation and desertification in Africa causing mass-migrations and thus pressure on the neighbouring countries and especially EU, with again populists getting votes with their anti-immigration rhetoric 9. Populists world-wide will gain a stronger foothold, even more having prime ministers in various EU countries (not just in Eastern Europe) A bit conservative predictions, I know. But it's still only 10 years so any bolder predictions will probably fall short