Budget_Shift

Budget_Shift t1_j22cs7v wrote

Rise of authoritarianism due to booming population numbers and unrest, already happening

falling fertility rate due to terrible diet and pollution, already happening actually

Governments using global warming as a way to control populations and make power grabs

tech is going to be absolutely insane. This is the only thing i can for sure predict since i studied computer science for a really long time. Like another commenter said AI will easily pass the turing test and i would honestly expect it to pass by mid-2030s honestly, if not sooner. AI is catching up faster than a lot of people give credit. VR and entertainment is going to be more realistic. Robotic augmentations i could easily see being a thing on the medical side, blind people having limited ability to see with augmentations, artificial organs cut doner weight times down significantly if you can afford them, they will be extremely expensive and rare. The organs will not work as good as the real deal and i could see the medical industry purposely hiding this and getting doners on them hooked for life on medication to "treat" their aliments.

Artificial meat will replace meat, it will have health repercussions just like any time humans try to recreate complex natural things. This will be repressed by several corporations. Also bug meal will be more accepted since at least its natural. God knows what goes in clones meat.

Rise of private militaries. Rich guys could easily become warlords by hiring out mercs and private military contractors to secure points of interest. Already kinda happened during the invasion of iraq with blackwater and oil companies. It will just be more overt

Rise of cyber warfare. As things become more online and connected i could see grids going down in wars. In the past, especially in america, war was a distant thing, it never affected you. A small dirt hut nation couldnt do anything to a monolithic first world nation, well i can see with cyberwar things like powergrids going down, communication networks going offline, strategic points of interest being attacked, just like with stuxnet. And these hacker groups could be hired just like PMCs, and be used to devastating effectiveness by the ultra rich and dictators alike(happened in 2014 with Sony already). The young boy playing with his python IDE and watching youtube videos on metasploit might one day partially responsible for half of Europe going dark. Whats even crazier is if AI is as advanced as im hearing it could be by that time, the people who he worked with wouldnt even be real people. They might even have their own goals in mind if they are true turing test AI.

Manmade horrors beyond comprehension

A lot of diseases get cured if its financially profitable. I think things like AIDs might be cured by then and cancer can be treated much better. Again, if you can afford it.

A wealth gap higher then ever seen before in human history. I just dont see that improving.

A lot of third world countries will get hit bad by global warming, a lot of people will die because of it, the first world will get stressed by this since they rely on the third world for a lot of industry. We will probably see a lot of regime changes and wars in these regions. A lot of death.

Human life being devalued even further to a pure object or commodity. Your life will only be worth your money and when it hits zero so does any safety net you have. Police will also no longer help you at all but will still spy on you.

Interlinking psyops followed by psyops interlinked together. I doubt anyone would be able to understand real and fake reality, especially with whatever entertainment they are consuming being more real and easy to fake with 100x more advanced versions of things like deepfakes and lyrebird. Since fear and anger is a great weapon for control, many people will see it as significantly worse than it actually is and be directed to absolutely hate their neighbors. This will cause further unrest but that unrest will be used to give the government more power. People will exist in worlds that are totally, 100% manufactured and not even know it. They will believe in world leaders and political parties that dont even exist, who just exist to make them angry. Im not even including whatever the hell AI might be doing on the internet if they are just casually let loose. They might want to take advantage of a divided human race, again, i dont know.

Africa, specifically Nigeria, gets a huge commercial and industrial boom similar to China in the 80s. It will be come what China is today in terms of Manufacturing. No idea how this will affect these countries when global warming starts to destabilize them

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Thats all i could imagine at this time, if i think of anything else ill add it

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