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"Saltwater Intrusion" is going to become a fairly common story in coastal areas in a few years, to the point it becomes normal. The way everyone has just accepted fire season in the western US.
Which, in turn, will bring more and more shady water-rights selloffs and thefts, main affecting marginalized communities.
Saltwater went further up the Mississippi than ever last year? If not a record, it was close enough.
For those that haven't lived a major hurricane, floods and winds slinging salt inland is bad mojo. Issues last for decades, even given an ecosystem that can handle the occasional shock.
I understand it is normal human behavior to focus on negative things and an evolved survival trait. But it is kind of sad that no answers have any positive thoughts about the future. So I will try one:
Computer and robotic technology will improve and get cheaper. It will become feasible for home bound people to be able to have some sort of participation in society through telepresence.
Add advanced augmented reality and teledildonics, shit is gonna get weird.
The United States of America will become Ununited. A group of states will break away and wall themselves off from the rest of the country, creating their own Trump worshipping society. They will create their own version of utopia and tell stories about how the rest of the world is going to die off because they will make everyone transgender and have no more children. The rest of the world will rejoice and join together in actually fixing climate change, eradicate poverty and spread the Eurovision worldwide.
In 100 more years the walled off states will emerge to repopulate what they expect to be an empty planet with their own eugenically created race of clones and finally realise that they were completely and utterly wrong.
We really should have let the south go long ago. Next time they rise up, we should wish them well and cut them loose. And whether they want to go or not, texas and florida need to go too. We can give florida to cuba if nothing else, and texas properly belongs to mexico, if they will take it. And Alaska should go to Canada.
So, The Handmaid’s Tale. I’m believing in that one as well and said it many times during the last decade, but I believe it will end like in the movie Civil War. Although I also believe the world will strive without the US, creating new green tech and be centered around Europe, Asia and LATAM being friends and trade partners.
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On the optimistic side, I think it's likely a gene treatment is developed that greatly extends the lives of dogs.
Or on the pessemistic side, the research that would lead to that is defunded because someone mistakenly believes it will make transgender dogs.
Russia will own Alaska.
China will take over Taiwan and Japan.
N.Korea will take over S.Korea.
That's the most obvious insanity caused by Trump love for Putin. Global borders will fall everywhere.
North Korea taking over South Korea sounds as absurd to me as Jamaica taking over the US.
The closest to "taking over" SK would be if they started dropping nukes and didn't actually want the land/resources/businesses/money and also didn't care about retaliation from allies...
You think SK and allies will be able to stop an Army of NK, China, and Russia?
I don't. Allies won't use nukes to stop it.
That would really be China taking over Korea, then. That's not North Korea taking over
True. I should've specified NK & allies taking over SK.
AI is going to replace a lot of peoples jobs and no real government is prepared for the aftermath.
Something like Detroit beyond human where AI is causing massive unemployment and real humans are really suffering. While the super rich are in lofts doing their own thing.
Its not all bad, Ive heard some short stories on the importance of open source and manufacturing your own thing. Theres stories on communities banding together in such times and rejecting that which makes the rich richer. But I personally think it will be far and in between. People have to want to change, and I just dont see it happening.
Another economic depression in the US, on a similar scale to the 1930s, maybe a lot worse. Probably a lot sooner than 10 years.
For a run-down of some of the key reasons, this video is long (40m), but worth a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqtrNXdlraM
The collapse of the petro dollar.
All hail the KilowattYuan!
At least five new countries acquire nuclear weapons.
World War 3: Return of the Civil War
Pandemic 2: Bird Measles
Depression 2
All at the same time
Communicating with AI becomes indistinguishable from human contact, unless it's face-to-face. While promising to solve the loneliness epidemic and provide safe and effective therapy for anyone who wants it, it also unleashes a torrent of convincing AI propaganda. Technocrats using AI and charismatic humans as useful idiots and a front, effectively rule the world. Most people are poor and go hungry, but resistance is futile. There is no safe way to communicate except meeting in person, and there are few safe spaces to even meet that aren't under constant surveillance. Organizing any resistance is incredibly difficult, if not hopeless. Truth is no more.
"Hey, remember when everyone was so freaked out by AI?"
Humans are quite bad at predicting the future, so I'm going with an easy one.
China will do nothing and somehow win.
The United States will no longer be a member of NATO or the United Nations or both. The US is being labeled as an adversary by Germany, so in 10 years, the United States may very well lose half of it's allies because of these 4 years we're enduring.
Russia could still lose it's war with Ukraine and may have lost because of the combined efforts of the EU since the US 10 years ago (accounting the time scale) has abandoned Ukraine. Russia and the United States could very well be allies by this point which would make the world arm themselves since we're seeing countries retaliate in trade wars.
Inflation in 10 years will be the new norm because no politician, Democrat or Republican, can't ever get their marbles of a grasp on holding corporations accountable.
Speaking of Corporations, in 10 years, they would've sucked dry and owned well over every important asset, service and many acquisitions along the way. We would have to make the term 'Megacorp' to identify these corporations by.
