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1) Cheap DNA sequencing and advances in ML will transform medicine, but also spark debate over mandatory testing and insurance. Medicine will begin to focus mor
by wildermuthn 7y ago
1) Cheap DNA sequencing and advances in ML will transform medicine, but also spark debate over mandatory testing and insurance. Medicine will begin to focus more on prevention of disease than treatment itself.
2) The boomers will refuse to die, and life-spans will surge into the 90s. This will cause massive social upheaval as the ‘ok boomer’ phenomenon goes from a meme to a generational political crisis.
3) AR will have established itself as a threat to mobile phone usage, but will take another 10 years to achieve primacy over smartphones
4) Nation-states will coopt, regulate, and control cryptocurrency.
5) Hollywood will be transformed by deep-fakes. Old and dead actors will be resurrected and become the new stars (again).
6) The pornographic industry will be decimated by the rise of VR camming, and CGI with licensed deep-fakes.
7) ML will drive dating into a new era of automated matchmaking rather than swiping/chatting.
8) Claims will be made that distributed team efficiency has made hubs like Silicon Valley obsolete.