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[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 102 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

I’ll go by (very broad) regions:

The United States experiences a brain drain and Trump’s death (all but inevitable in 10 years, whether by natural causes or other means), will cause a major rift in the Republican Party. Democrats will somehow fail to capitalize on it and then blame online leftists, famously the kingmakers of American politics.

Canada will become a de facto part of Europe. Bike lanes will be added.

Europe will experience an economic boom as it’s basically forced to develop new industries, becomes the default destination for scientific research, and the Euro begins to replace the dollar as the currency of choice for international trade contracts. France, especially, will benefit as it isn’t reliant on the U.S. for military support, space launch capabilities, etc. and will become the default NATO weapons supplier.

Russia will have a deep post-war depression even if it takes Kyiv due to brain drain and sending so many young men into a meat grinder.

China will have a medium-sized economic crisis but ultimately (after Xi) enact long needed reforms (kind of like when Mao died and Deng Xiaoping enacted reforms).

India will have a major crisis as Hindu Nationalism goes too far and people begin to revolt.

Central Asia will keep on keeping on. (I don’t know a lot about Central Asia.)

Latin America will increase trade with China and Europe at the expense of the United States. Bolsonaro will go to the hospital 50 more times and be bit by an even more exotic bird. Argentina will benefit most from the decline of the U.S. as a reliable trading partner.

Israel will annex the West Bank and Arab countries will isolate it. Saudi Arabia’s line city will still be in the planning stages. Iran will develop a nuclear deterrent but the power of the Supreme Leader will be weakened and shift to the elected officials because of economic problems.

The Maghreb will benefit from Europe’s rise and increased trade. West Africa will experience an economic and population boom and become an inexpensive manufacturing hub. The Horn of Africa will probably remain a shitshow (but hopefully I’m wrong about that). Central and Southern Africa will also experience significant growth but at a slower pace than West Africa.

Australia will lose another war with emus as New Zealand wisely allies with the Emus. They will force Australia into a humiliating peace deal that ultimately leads to a third Emu War, much like WWI’s onerous peace terms led to WWII.

Ocean acidification and rising sea levels will begin to fuck everyone and scientists will scream about it but it’ll be the following decades when that sort of thing really wrecks the world economy.

Nintendo will somehow sell me the same games for the 5th time.

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 28 points 15 hours ago

All of this is entirely too possible….

Who are you future man?

[–] WanderingShadow@lemmy.world 16 points 13 hours ago

As an Australian I will welcome our new emu overlords. I presume this will lead to some major social changes where men take on the primary role in childcare and where feather dusters become a status symbol.

[–] tacocatgoat@lemmy.world 12 points 14 hours ago

This was such a nice read, thank you Mr. Shit the beetles

[–] SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz 77 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

I'll adopt a cat. 🤞

EDIT: I read the question wrong, but I'm keeping it up.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 30 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Your answer is my favorite.

[–] Whitebrow@lemmy.world 17 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I also choose this guys’ yet nonexistent cat.

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[–] Ceedoestrees@lemmy.world 76 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

Trump either dies suspiciously or gets openly assassinated.

California secedes from the union which starts off hopeful but ends in their own Calexit debacle.

The severing of intercontinental data cables leads to the isolation of formerly global communities.

[–] Odelay42@lemmy.world 15 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

There are more Republicans in California than Texas. Secession is not gonna happen.

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 62 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

America will suffer an economic depression and become more isolationist which will allow the depression to continue unabated. Millions die of starvation and exposure.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 70 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Millions die of starvation and exposure and preventable disease.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Yes, and as someone with a pricey cancer treatment at the moment which I can only afford due to Medicaid, there is a very good chance I will be one of them.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 32 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

You and I don't always see eye to eye on some issues, but I hope you know that I am always wishing you well and strength in your continuing battle. This internet rando wants you to be around and be here for decades to come. I'm pulling for you.

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[–] L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works 9 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Nostradamus over here. How did you manage to scrap that conclusion together? No one could possibly predict that outcome.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 18 hours ago

That's Nostradumbass to you.

[–] humble_boatsman@sh.itjust.works 55 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

Ameriscum here. Trump starts a war to create plausibility for holding on to executive power past current term limits. Which has happened in American history. Not the starting part as an ends to a means though. I'm scared.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 14 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

...When in American history did a president start a war in order to serve more than two terms?

45 men have served as President of the United States, two of them non-consecutively. The only one of them to serve more than two full terms was Franklin Delano Roosevelt from 1933 to 1945, being elected four times and dying in office. At the time, no term limits for President existed, and World War 2 was certainly not started by the United States.

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[–] LambdaRX@sh.itjust.works 40 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

We will have The Year of Linux Desktop 3: Libre Boogaloo

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[–] udon@lemmy.world 30 points 12 hours ago

More floods, storms, droughts, extreme heats, fewer animal/plant species, more garbage everywhere

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 29 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

By level of confidence, from top to bottom:

Bitcoin will dump soon and then raise up again around 2028

Trump will stay in power until next elections (and yes, elections will still take place)

Ukraine will have to surrender to Russia around late 2025-early 2026, boosting authoritarian regimes around the world

Linux desktop share will raise to 6% by 2027

[–] figjam@midwest.social 11 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

I think Trump is going to die in the next 10 years.

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 11 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

TBF, Russia still has elections. Just no chance of Putin ever leaving.

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[–] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 28 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

GTA6 will almost be complete

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[–] TokenEffort@sh.itjust.works 27 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

The attacks on transgender people will spread to the rest of the LGBTQ community, then the disabled, then immigrants, then Jewish people, and so on. Because first they came for the transgender people and we didn't speak out.

Fediverse will be regulated by law or some nonsense, making it exactly like the centralized platforms.

President Elon Musk serves half of his third term as permanent president of the United States. All public transit and bike lanes are abolished in favor of cars, and many people go broke after losing their jobs after being unable to afford to make it to work. Inflation is at an all time high with everyone being nostalgic about today's prices where everything is still affordable. He also makes it illegal to be transgender. We go back to democracy when some rando who deliberately changed their name to a Mario character assassinates Musk.

The next smash cuts a character everyone loves but also has the three house leaders.

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters conveniently forgot about Amazon.

Reddit shuts down or lives on as a husk like 𝕏. Or even better, Elon buys reddit, calls it 𝕏 Communities and throws out brand materials like "subreddit" in favor of generic "community". Place becomes 𝕏 Draw and is only powered by AI image generators. Each pixel costs one dogecoin and users generate ai images at the resolution of the pixels they own.

Nintendo's next console is a Switch 3.

Everyone has a folding phone now.

[–] pleasestopasking@reddthat.com 19 points 18 hours ago

The attacks on transgender people will spread to the rest of the LGBTQ community, then the disabled, then immigrants, then Jewish people, and so on. Because first they came for the transgender people and we didn't speak out.

I think it's already done spread, this is not a "in the next ten years" situation. They're speedrunning it.

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[–] maplebar@lemmy.world 22 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

By 2035 everyone who actually likes computers will be primary using Linux.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 17 points 12 hours ago

I choose to interpret this as "Barely a handful of people survived WW3, and only because they were protected from the radiation deep in their basement server rooms." (No hate, I heart less than three 🐧)

[–] SexDwarf@lemmy.world 21 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

The today's "brave new world" will start turning into Orwellian Big Brother society. It's already happening. Of course neither option is great but I prefer drugs, orgies and idiots to surveillance, absolute police state and slaves/prisoners.

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[–] monkeyman512@lemmy.world 17 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 16 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

GRRM isn't going to finish the books.

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[–] TheImpressiveX@lemm.ee 15 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

@remindme@mstdn.social 10 years

[–] remindme@mstdn.social 10 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

@TheImpressiveX Ok, I will remind you on Saturday Mar 10, 2035 at 11:48 PM UTC.

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[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 15 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

A war will happen.

It will either be a civil war within the US but involving all of North America.

Or the literal 3rd world war. With usa and Russia fighting against Europe, where Canada is one of the main battleground.

I really wish I'm wrong, but I predicted drump's colonialist ambition over Canada years ago. I also remember being laugh at by everyone around the table at a diner so saying conservatives were making nazism acceptable again. Well guess what.

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[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Radio music will be almost entirely AI generated by 2035.

I am faithful that humans will continue to be the primary composers, performers, and tastemakers of music even when AI tools are involved, because music is simply fun to do for people who do it. I know I'm simply not interested in giving up my passion even though an AI could do it, and I think most musicians are with me on that. We do it because it is worth doing.

But as far as radio pop music is concerned, I think that listeners will eventually be conditioned to prefer "better than real" (but really more polished than real life) music, just like we have with modern record production, particularly auto-tune, drum sample replacement/augmentation, vocaloids, virtual analog plugin software, compression and saturation, and sample-based electronic music. And once that happens, it'll be cheaper and more predictable to ask an AI to spit out a song than to pay human producers to do it.

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[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 13 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 17 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

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...

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[–] Someplaceunknown@fedia.io 13 points 18 hours ago

Enshitification

[–] satans_methpipe@lemmy.world 12 points 13 hours ago

I personally aerosolize psychedelic drugs over Washington D.C. This melts the rotting meat suits off the mantids and lizards.

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 12 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

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.

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 12 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

The collapse of the petro dollar.

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[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

"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.

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[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 12 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

On the optimistic side, I think it's likely a gene treatment is developed that greatly extends the lives of dogs.

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[–] naught101@lemmy.world 11 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

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

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[–] WanderingShadow@lemmy.world 11 points 16 hours ago (6 children)

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.

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[–] Little8Lost@lemmy.world 10 points 4 hours ago (6 children)

Preperations for the 2038 bug (similar te the Y2K bug) start too late about 2035

Linux Desktop gets stronger, even if its slow

I may or may not manage to finish hosting Nextcloud mostly save on the internet

Rise in suicide rates

fall of fanservice isekai (pls)

Rise of the fediverse (could be slow)

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[–] Brum@lemmy.world 9 points 18 hours ago

At least five new countries acquire nuclear weapons.

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 9 points 11 hours ago

In order of hopeful least hopeful:

  1. I finally create my first ever original song using something like Vocaloid or UTAU. Would absolutely prefer Vocaloid because I tried v6 once and it was so much nicer than UTAU/OpenUTAU and so much easier.
  2. I actually finish a Wattpad series I started instead of letting it rot after I lose interest.
  3. Pokémon Empire (my absolute favorite fan game, just below Uranium) doesn't get nuked by Sintendo.
  4. The devs still working on Uranium finish the post game and let you capture the legendaries mentioned in the Tsukiyomi village museum(?).
  5. I finally get the remaining books in the Bakuman manga series and actually read the whole series. I've got the first 9 volumes, so I should hopefully be done at some point before the end of the decade, assuming my favorite place to go for used manga has the other 11 volumes at some point or doesn't close down.
[–] stuthepower33@lemmy.world 9 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

One or more leading countries in the world to recognize some form of AI as sentient.

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