1. Technology sector will become regulated globally mandating minimal security standards, privacy protections and ethical machine learning standards. Enforcemen

1. Technology sector will become regulated globally mandating minimal security standards, privacy protections and ethical machine learning standards. Enforcement will be economic and increasingly technical. 2. Governments will start to adopt blockchains for currencies and registers of record. 3. Real estate prices in city centers will continue to increase every year 4. Climate change enforcement will trigger a global trade war 5. By the end of the decade, every country on earth will have implemented a carbon emission trading scheme 6. All new cars on the road will be electric cars 7. Global poverty will no longer exist by the end of this decade 8. Assisted legal suicide will be legal in many countries by the end of this decade 9. Ultra-fast wireless internet will cause a major decline in wired internet-subscriptions 10. The middle-east will still not have any real democracy 11. China will see major popular uprisings leading to an increase in democracy but still not be a full democracy by the end of this decade 12. Latin America, Russia, east africa and SEA will transition to real democracies 13. Nuclear energy will make a comeback and new plants will be build 14. A cure or vaccine for HIV will be in phase 3 clinical trials or beyond 15. General AI will not exist yet and neither will fully autonomous cars 16. Politicians will fail to enact any regulation in regards to fake news leading to much deeper polarization of society and widespread acceptance of biggotry