We’ve done this for a few years on the r/futurology subreddit. Here’s 2024’s predictions. Not many seem to have got a lot right, though most got a certain amount correct.
well since a Crooked, Felon Businessman is going to be US President.
My Predictions are that:
No end to the Ukraine war US Economy will be horrible More crooks will run US as a business and not a government corruption will be at a all time HIGH in the USA
Climate
- 2024 hottest year on record (so far)
- COP30 a failure
- Large storms / floods destroy portion of a US city
- Oil and Gas continues to expand
AI / Tech
- AI roll out continues and more and more businesses shed staff for AI
- No sign of AGI
- No significant roll out of AI powered robots other than in isolated cases
Economy
- Bitcoin hits $200k at some point in 2025
- Global Inflation Down
- Global Interest rates Down
- Inequality continues to rise globally
War
- More conflict in middle east, potentially China joins fray somewhere
- Stalemate in Ukraine, no formal end to war
Medicine
- Neuralink/BCI makes progress but nothing groundbreaking
Energy
- Solar / Wind continues to expand, prices drop further
- Fusion 30 years away
The climate catastrophe: Global temperatures continue to rise, and very little is done about it.
Middle East: There is no peace, there is war.
We’re (humans) putting people on the moon by the end of November 2025. At least one nation but maybe even two different groups of nations. Although all projections are for the 2030s, the latest Google quantum chip and enhanced AI GPTs, will bring all of this up sooner.