We progressively advance towards Cyberpunk: - governments around the world proceed with bowing to megacorps/cults/mobs; - entire jobs disappear to AI [1], peo

We progressively advance towards Cyberpunk: - governments around the world proceed with bowing to megacorps/cults/mobs; - entire jobs disappear to AI [1], people are told that they "just need to" learn a new job, at the age of 50+; - money is further diverted from fundamental research and towards AI, because governments and private institutions are convinced that AI will magically solve the world's problems; - AGI remains 6 months away; - nuclear fusion remains 3 years away; - as Pax Americana disappears, the UN remains paralyzed and the EU remains in crisis, international relations return to wolf-at-the-door style anarchy [2] and generalized economic+proxy wars; - new crypto boom (possibly followed immediately by large correction); - with further deregulation and wars, we proceed to destroy the Earth and ignore the consequences, predicting that AI will somehow solve it; - as a consequence of both international anarchy and environmental collapse, record number of refugees; - as a consequence of major despair, ecoterrorism, ploutoterrorism (is there a better way for a CEO getting shot?), fascioterrorism start becoming fashionable; - eventually, a truce/occupation in Gaza; - no war in Taiwan just yet; - some Line-of-Control-style truce in Ukraine [3]; - more escapism, with the budget for super-hero movies, video-games, etc. increasing; - lots of AI crap, with GenAI-written books saturating Amazon, GenAI-written content saturating social networks, GenAI-written content replacing journalists in at least one major news source, a few semi-experimental GenAI-written movies and/or videogames; - generally speaking, people understand less and less the world around them, because their news sources more and more filled with disinformation and random crap; - companies still believe that AI will magically solve all their problems; - Netflix starts generating series with GenAI (although the release might not be in 2025); - companies that sell hardware and services to company that try to adopt AI make lots of money; - we do not hit planetary limits for AI yet, but we inch closer; - rich countries (perhaps with the exception of China) further decrease their investment in education; - the signs show that the economy is just fine, so no need to change anything. [1] Despite AI not necessarily being able to do their job. [2] That kind of anarchy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchy_(international_relations) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchy_(international_relatio... . [3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_of_Control https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_of_Control