Some will definitely not come true as these are relatively bold, but:
1. People welcome always-on video cameras into their homes
2. Self-driving cars actually do take off (but are introduced gradually)
3. AR never becomes more than a gimmick. VR occupies a similar place in the gaming market to gaming consoles and is basically unused outside of gaming.
4. Higher education in many areas begins to die and is replaced with online certification programs.
5. After major breakthroughs in pharmacological(?) treatment of depression/anxiety, humans may now choose how happy they want to be. This threatens to shake society to its core, and many are against it.
6. Robots become a lot more common, but think Roomba, not I,Robot
7. The role of CO2 in human mental health is discovered and legislation begins against high CO2 levels in rooms.
8. The death of truth: photo and video evidence are easily faked, and we have to rely on the source of information to know whether or not to trust it, not the information itself.
9. The incorporation of neural-network specific hardware cards into most personal computers.
10. Personal assistants like Alexa or Siri remain fairly unintelligent and limited in scope.
11. After some horrific example of genetic engineering on human babies gone wrong, laws limit genetic engineering on humans to a few limited things like gender, eye color, etc.
12. Scientists discover that perfect pitch can be reliably acquired through extensive practice, despite 2020 "common knowledge". But there's still not really a point to doing so. It's just one of many new demonstrations of the plasticity of the human mind.
13. Some psychedelics become legal in many countries.
14. Polyamory becomes a thing that most people are at least familiar with.
15. Attempts are made to outlaw the use of blockchain-based communication and video apps.
16. A platform mixing the best parts of Patreon and Youtube becomes popular.
17. Universal basic income is implemented in many countries, but not the US.
18. A cheap technological remedy to global warming is produced, and the issue disappears quietly.
19. Moore's law basically plateaus mid-decade. The impressive stuff in computing is being done by different types of computer architectures altogether, like neural-network chips.
20. Boldest prediction: first convincing (but non-conclusive) evidence of extra-terrestrial intelligent life.
1. People welcome always-on video cameras into their homes
2. Self-driving cars actually do take off (but are introduced gradually)
3. AR never becomes more than a gimmick. VR occupies a similar place in the gaming market to gaming consoles and is basically unused outside of gaming.
4. Higher education in many areas begins to die and is replaced with online certification programs.
5. After major breakthroughs in pharmacological(?) treatment of depression/anxiety, humans may now choose how happy they want to be. This threatens to shake society to its core, and many are against it.
6. Robots become a lot more common, but think Roomba, not I,Robot
7. The role of CO2 in human mental health is discovered and legislation begins against high CO2 levels in rooms.
8. The death of truth: photo and video evidence are easily faked, and we have to rely on the source of information to know whether or not to trust it, not the information itself.
9. The incorporation of neural-network specific hardware cards into most personal computers.
10. Personal assistants like Alexa or Siri remain fairly unintelligent and limited in scope.
11. After some horrific example of genetic engineering on human babies gone wrong, laws limit genetic engineering on humans to a few limited things like gender, eye color, etc.
12. Scientists discover that perfect pitch can be reliably acquired through extensive practice, despite 2020 "common knowledge". But there's still not really a point to doing so. It's just one of many new demonstrations of the plasticity of the human mind.
13. Some psychedelics become legal in many countries.
14. Polyamory becomes a thing that most people are at least familiar with.
15. Attempts are made to outlaw the use of blockchain-based communication and video apps.
16. A platform mixing the best parts of Patreon and Youtube becomes popular.
17. Universal basic income is implemented in many countries, but not the US.
18. A cheap technological remedy to global warming is produced, and the issue disappears quietly.
19. Moore's law basically plateaus mid-decade. The impressive stuff in computing is being done by different types of computer architectures altogether, like neural-network chips.
20. Boldest prediction: first convincing (but non-conclusive) evidence of extra-terrestrial intelligent life.