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've heard New Zealand is a popular place for that.
One non-USA country will institute a program encouraging the elderly to die early as a way to reduce retirement spending.
The world order will collapse when brainrot GenZ will take the reins
Nah. Gen Z is going to end up like Gen X. It is Gen Alpha which is going to kill us all if the Boomers don't already do it.
Imagine people progressively got soo dumb that one day we just forgot how to keep the technology working and went back to being cavemen.
I don't want to think about it but probably. I, as a GenZ, see them as very similar to boomers but with a kind of restlessness they will apply to inappropriate contexts. Boomers for all their faults are good at only tapping into their blood pressure dysregulation to kill people or advocate for war or racism, GenZ is just in a transient state between chaotic or tranquilised, so i could see a GenZ world leader firing a nuke for fun or something. But hey.
Already happened in 2020.
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Oligarchs, frustrated with dealing with their political sockpuppets, start just buying countries.
Venezuela, a prod member of ExxonMobil Conoco-Phillips
argentina, most of them will likely flee there, not russia, since putin will likely find a window for you and steal your assets down the line.
it's not called Republic of Samsung for nothing
Trump will live to be 102 just because life isn't fair
Okay now it's weird how many people are citing things i've also thought about!
I expect him to be a quite significant figure in history textbooks, hopefully as an example of how not to lead, as the USA's version of King Henry VIII of England, and the reason why the constitution and electoral system was changed. A rare example of president->prison pieline taking place in the USA.
However. It just feels like he has some unholy power to prolong our suffering and tank any blows to his career or even his life. I fuoly expect that he'll stay alive as long as possible which wiol prevent americans talking so candidly bout him.
Or maybe it'll allow trump to see every last member of his cult turn on him. Maga voters will finally admit that whoever comes after trump is better, they haven't seen lasting change or security following his regime, and it wasn't at all worth the humiliation they subjected themselves to. They're like a really toxic F-ed up college fraternity.
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.
Plus water supply rationing, like in Cuba
they just end up charging people more for gas/electric and water instead of charging the datacenter owners.
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.
We're already in WW3
If we're already in a world war, it should really be called world war 4 or 5. This has the global reach comparable to Vietnam or the Russia/Afghanistan conflict.
I think historians will likely be deciding if we are already in ww3 or not. Although I'm quite surprised China hasn't moved on Taiwan
My spidey senses tell me that will be coming shortly.
Yeah, I wonder if China is trying to figure out how to short the markets without the other hedge fund bros figuring out what's gonna happen. Because the second chip shipments cease is the second this ai circlejerk house of cards musical chairs pass the iou game comes to an end. And then we see the k shaped economy turn into the greatest depression.
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.
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.
The earth has been through many many climate changes, this isn't the first, it isn't the last
The earth don't care, it keeps chugging along, no it's us that won't survive
back in 2017-18 , called out russia was using propaganda bots to drump up articles to astroturf the subs, and look where it has turned into, leading into bannings every year, that got worst over time. the warnings were largely ignored at the time.
Congratulations and welcome back, Nostradamus
Not completely baseless, but Florida is going to go bankrupt one year and cause a major political problem for the US.
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.
countries dont seem interested in combatting climate change at all. plus there is one country that solely funds anti-climate change as thier economy depends on it, combined with the rest of the oil-gas industry. trying to get funding for research about climate change is a little dicey too.
Trump dead ,and having street parties over the world.
Ebola 3.0 and bird flu attack on the humans
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