Hotter, stupider and angrier.

At lot hotter as much as people want to claim “climate change isn’t real” and “it’s always been this hot”

At a high level, the same

Considering that we could just end up with covid 2 tomorrow it seems that any answer is going to be arbitrary so might as well give an optimistic one. The West’s slide to the right is prevented by a leftist surge as parties such as Labour and the Democrats realise that they can’t win by trying to attract the right, and so instead double down on progressive policy - which works for them as they’re able to reform their image and start really appealing to the people.

AI slop starts to falter as it feeds off of self-produced training data until it becomes literally incomprehensible, meaning that it can be easily ignored or not understood by the majority of people, as well as being banned on the rising stars of the internet: federated social media, independent streaming services (think Nebula, Dropout), and newly-independent news sites, like Giant Bomb.

The climate change issue is now taken more seriously, as the generations unfamiliar with the internet who could be sucked into misinformation rabbit holes start to die off, and policymakers who have grown up understanding the existential threat it poses to all of us take power.

The workplaces of large corporations start unionising, even illegally at first, and establish strong community centred power bases which are used to demand better treatment not only in the workplace, but also to bargain with the government. A focus returns to the local community.

(I know all this is very wishful thinking, but figured the thread could use some more positivity 🫶)

a bit warmer

AI will have been added to everything, even cardboard and there will be nothing left but to add more AI to AI.

Still bad. Different kinds of bad for sure, but definitely still bad.

The last version of Windows 11 is approaching the end of active support. 2035 is the year of Linux desktop!

Fucked & hot, not in the good senses of those terms.

IMO this trend toward hard right conservatism will backfire and we’re going to enter a highly liberal and progressive time. I believe, especially in the US, massive economic hardships are coming over the next decade before a reset. Europe will face hard times against Russia.

We will all be older compared today and some of us probably dead by then.

People online will be even MORE sensitive than they currently are! Don’t ask hypothetical questions, or even THINK about joining a conversation. Everyone will say how wrong and stupid you are without even really trying to read what you typed.