10 Crazy Predictions For The 2020's

#6: Facebook Won’t Exist Anymore

Predictions are hard.

Imagine trying to predict the ubiquity of smartphones 20 years ago?

You’d have had to predict the successful manufacturing of touchscreens and chipsets, the leaps in programming and UX/UI, the profligation of the internet, the availibility of GPS, the investment by telecom companies, and an unquenchable public demand. You’d also had to have factored in affordability, mass-market availability and social acceptance.

Prediction then is non-trivial, probably impossible and unfathomably multifaceted.

So with all that in mind, the wisest course of action would be never to attempt any predictions.

But where’s the fun in that?

So here are my ten absolutely spurious predictions for this decade. Shoot your shot, innit? I’d be lauded as a genius if any of my lucky guesses are remotely true. Much more likely though, I’d look like a dunce when all these fail. Greater the risk, greater the reward eh?

So here goes, in no particular order.

1. 1 Bitcoin will be worth $200,000 USD.
2. Over half of the world’s energy consumption will be powered by renewable resources.
3. Fancy a weekend trip to the Moon? Or perhaps be whisked around the Earth? There will be at least three companies that’ll offer this.
4. Over half the world’s vehicles will be powered by electricity. All cars will be semi-autonomous i.e. have some form of driving aids like auto-steer, auto-lane-change and auto-braking.
5. DuckDuckGo will surpass Google to become the de facto search engine of the internet.
6. Facebook won’t exist anymore. Whatsapp won’t either. But Instagram will.
7. A “Netflix-for-sports” will exist for all your sporting needs, both for live events and on-demand rewatches.
8. No more cinemas. Movies will release simultaneously to streaming audiences worldwide.
9. VR Tourism will become a legitimate industry and grow at a faster rate than the much larger hospitality sector.
10. The President of the USA will be a woman.