Ask Lemmy

I don't think I am very good at future predictions or expectations. Thirty years ago I never expected what we have now.

I've got a pretty simple one: I'm going to die of natural causes in the near future. According to the doctors I should have a couple of years ago already and yet I am still here.

Right now I am homeless in one of the so called richest countries on this planet and there is nothing left. Been through all the social welfare programs. No job, no money, no hope. One day we're all going to die so it doesn't matter anyway.

I've started the "computer hobby" in the 1970s and was communicating with fellow "computer freaks" (that was an insult back then and probably it is again now) before the World Wide Web existed. Modern social media always was a big No-No for me. Three days ago I've decided to join the Lemmy World/Fediverse and I'm going to post whatever I want to just for the fun of it. Maybe that's my way of spending some time with people. Maybe it's my way of sharing something with the world. Maybe I'll write my autobiography here. Yes, I am serious and real. No, I am not obligated to provide "proof" for the keyboard warriors out there. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

AI at scale will flop, but will return later as open source small businessess tool.

• Microsoft will unironically release their own Linux distro

Trump will live to be 102 just because life isn't fair

We will see WWIII in my life time (next 50 years, if I'm lucky).

It will be started over something that will seem incredibly silly, in hindsight.

With so many AI data centres needing so much power and none seeming to use solar power etc, we'll start seeing "grid rationing" where suburbs will get "time zones" where there will be power and no power.

Instead of people rising up or pushing back, they will get distracted by arguing that certain/richer suburbs get prioitised more than lower class suburbs.

Pretty sure I'm going to find myself in some kind of mass migration by highway, get identified at a checkpoint as politically unacceptable in some way, then get moved to a large empty sports stadium with about 1-2 hundred other people, then get marched out onto the field and shot. I saw it very vividly in a dream that did not fade after waking up.

We will go to war with the EU/NATO with Russia.

Not completely baseless, but Florida is going to go bankrupt one year and cause a major political problem for the US.

Have you seen Elysium?

Yeah...pretty much that. In some form or another. It won't necessarily be the wealthy people blasting off to a space station, more likely just hiding away on luxury islands while the rest of the world continues to go to shit.

I think there will be some crazy scientific breakthrough that will change everything.

Totally baseless, and it's mostly the idiot optimist inside me that believes it, but I kind of have to believe it else I'll go bananaser then I already am.

The AI bubble will burst sometime in 2027/early 2028.

Trump will use the financial collapse as an excuse to suspend elections.

The majority will be too busy scrambling to survive to complain.

Oligarchs, frustrated with dealing with their political sockpuppets, start just buying countries.

Geoengineering to combat climate change by mass carbon capture will be the solution that saves humanity but will arrive too late to prevent some harrowing effects.

Self-driving vehicles will become good enough to technically be safer for passengers than human drivers soon, but the stigma around them will continue for a long time after they are road legal and their uptake will be very slow.

I think the earth is going to metaphorically say enough is enough and step in to fix climate change because humans are too selfish and greedy to do it ourselves. I think this is going to come by way of a massive volcanic eruption that causes short term global cooling while killing a good chunk of the population across a large geographical area both from the immediate disaster and the resulting long term damage from widespread ash/famine that could result.

I think AI desktop apps like claude desktop will replace the web browser.

Some other ones:

• I think North Korea will be accepted back into the fold of the international community - this could occur through any of these 3 mechanisms: 1) "rehabilitated" to be more like other nations, 2) eventually proves its system to be successful, or 3) simply the US gives up on its shunning of the country. All evidence and past performance shows that it won't, but i still expect it to happen some time before 2075.
• I don't think sentient aliens exist. Okay so there's the goldilocks nature of Earth's position which evidences in favour of my stance, but even without that, i just feel like we're alone
• bonus showerthought: imagine if aliens in the future try to "cancel" humanity for basically committing intergalactic blackface by making things like Star Wars and Star Trek. That's my baseless prediction if aliens exist
• I think the star wars sequel trilogy will be retconned out of canon

The world order will collapse when brainrot GenZ will take the reins

My country will pivot to the far left the economy will get even worse then we will aggressively swing to the far right and things will get even worse then we will get dragged into a stupid war by a stupid right wing ghoul.

Mass famine and lots of people starving in death and be killed by other people with guns. A more optimistic prediction will be a solar punk future eventually some day

Stargates

Trump dead ,and having street parties over the world.

Ebola 3.0 and bird flu attack on the humans