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My predictions of things that probably happen till 2030: 1. Level 5 self-driving cars will be available. 1.a. Humans will be blamed for self-driving and news
by faebi 7y ago
My predictions of things that probably happen till 2030:
1. Level 5 self-driving cars will be available.
1.a. Humans will be blamed for self-driving and news like this will be common: "Another kid died because X turned off the self-driving mode. Why?"
1.b. Insurance companies will see the business for self-driving and solve most legal problems.
1.c. Most cars won't be self-driving yet.
1.d. Trucks and logistics will see major shifts in fast time.
1.e. Political targets will die in self-driving accidents.
1.f. This will be the change with the most positive impact on the world economy.
2. One major western economy will be hit extremely hard by a days/week long outage on their power or internet because of an easy cyber attack on their insecure infrastructure.
3. The wage-gap will be even bigger in the USA. The super-rich will be completely in power.
4. Major rich and/or political people will be the target of a never seen before data-breach. Laws regarding privacy will change across the west.
5. I assume an new economic crisis. But maybe the world is to complex now for one big crisis across all industries.
6. People in Europe won't accept the rising prices for healthcare and for housing/ground anymore.
6.a. The prices of healthcare will rise anyway because of new medical possibilities.
6.b. Housing will be automated but this won't affect renting prices enough.
7. Aging will be seen as a disease and the first treatments will start to appear.
8. New contraceptives for men will shape the young male generation like nothing before.
9. The near-east will start to be irrelevant again because of the electrification of cars.
10. Africa won't change a lot except for places where China invests.
11. China will suppress any revolution with ease and will help other countries to do the same.
12. The public internet will start to split into multiple enormous silos like in China now. As a European, I might won't be able to access HN anymore. Only the biggest companies can navigate this regulation mess.
13. SpaceX will be first world-wide ISP and it will be enormous.
14. Europe, USA, China and India will be equally powerful. The USA will have the hardest time to deal with this new situation.
15. The Sovereign Wealth fund of Norway will get even better. Norway will let any western economy look like crap. Why inherit dept from your parents when you can get wealth and dividends. People in the Europe will start demanding the same as Norway has.