Asklemmy

We will start to see major companies collapse when they realize too late hoarding wealth means no one can buy anything.

What do you think human civilization will look like in 10 years?

I don't think I can give a better or more creative answer than what's already here.

But I can assure you, people in ten years will come back to this thread to see how the predictions fared.

It's very hard to tell. Most decades have inertia that carry on 3-4 years in. You didn't see people vaping or people with full beards drinking craft beer until 2013.

It's hard to tell what's seeping into the new decade from the last decade, what's here to stay, and what's new to come. Are NFTs the new thing? Or just a symptom of the boom in crypto the 20-teens.

I do predict AI will be here to stay, though.

I hope these things will happen

• Governments invest more money on grid energy storage

• green hydrogen becomes more common

I fear these will also:

• global warming gets worse

• Trump gets elected

• Watching a few more seasons of the Shitshow is surprisingly entertaining

AI will make immense progress and all jobs that require a computer will be handed over to AI and robots. There will be hardly any middle managers left. People will do manual or personal stuff that robots cannot do.

Depending on who owns the AI, the distribution of wealth decides which jobs are available. I would bet on a small group of people who are going to decide what humanity will do.

The problem is that AI requires energy. At one point, the decision has to be made whether energy is used for bricks or bytes. Bytes will be prefered so most people will live in tiny rooms.

Since there is not much work to be done, and energy is expensive, people will spent most of their time doing something energy-efficient. Cities will be built for walking distances.

Civilization will be crawling on its hands and knees, dying.

The rich will all be trying to pile into New Zealand.

America will be a warzone.

I'll have been killed by a flash mob stealing food from vulnerable houses.

Canada will be overrun by refugees, with rampant disease and cannibalism in the camps.

The republicans in the USA will still deny climate change, saying it's all a hoax.

The middle east and india will be uninhabitable.

Nuclear weapons use will be widespread.

The Internet won't exist anymore.

Everyone reading this comment will be dead.

Bernie Sanders will be announcing his bid for presidency

Crispy

Closer to Idiocracy.

Global warming will get worse, maybe a run away effect might start.

I feel like we are going to be blindsided by tech development in a field a lot of non-tech people don't expect.

Maybe VR/AR really taking off in the mainstream to a point it effects TV sales for example or high quality chatbots or image generation tools that can be easily run locally on consumer hardware.

We might also see cellphones using a different decentralized network.