How will daily life be different ten years from now?

more people following you home to steal the cash you just removed from the ATM...(violently)

Almost every aspect of our lives will be automated. Most people will never leave their homes. Very little face to face human interaction. Sex robots will replace actual lays.

Cheap and effective HIV vaccine that puts an end to that scourge for good. People scoff at the thought of buying an ICE car. Datalounge gets a VR app.

We'll all be 10 years older, except for those of us who will be dead in 10 years.

Brooke Shields will be elected President in a landslide, Prince William will divorce Kate Middleton and marry Lady Gaga, the Moon will become the 51st US state with 19 electoral votes, and the Catholic Church will announce a merger with Scientology!

The Putin-Trump-Kim 5G destruction armada will have successfully eradicated all cellphones and internet servers.

Heavily regulated news will be read by perfect10s under Minister of Truth, Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson.

Fracking and drilling will be king. Anyone harboring windmills will be drawn and quartered by Trump branded clydesdales.

Common road accidents like rear end collisions will be much rarer as the majority of cars will have collision avoidance systems by then.

Apple will have an iPhone built entirely inside a pair of AirPod Pros, voice controlled using Siri.

Automated/robotic food delivery will be commonplace, as will drone delivery of goods from Amazon and Walmart (at least for suburban and rural areas)

Precision fermentation to produce meat, dairy and fish proteins will be commonplace and eventually will result in products superior in taste and cost to the “real” thing. This has been under the radar for a while but has the potential to radically change how we get our animal protein.

R2 will likely be correct. More and more automation, even as far as sex,

and more and more isolation. Surrounded all the time by what ever news source you totally agree with all the time. Your friends will be exactly like you with the same loves and hates .

STDs and other conditions that can be passed sexually will be a much bigger problem with more infections and more resistance to treatment. A well made lover who has no STD and is always hard or always wet, and only does exactly what you want them to do or say , will make a killing once perfected.

OR

A 2007 type of total meltdown of our economic systems followed by political collapses all over the world. Then it’s going to be the toughest and smartest and best prepared who will survive well.

I will no longer be here.

Survivor 55: San Francisco.

Elon Musk will be Emperor of the Universe after Space X makes him wealthier then every nation on Earth. Death, squirrels 🐿️

I think in 30-40 years we will have universal healthcare, UBI, and people will work fewer hours, especially outside the home, and do more for themselves. One reason for this will be wage compression. If you can’t pay someone a wage that is artificially depressed by Medicaid, food stamps, housing subsidies, illegal immigration, etc., then you are going to be more likely to do it yourself. UBI will enable people to relocate away from areas where social services and subsidized housing are concentrated and allow for more equal access to decent educational opportunities. If people choose not to work at all, they’ll survive, but they will have to live in a cheap dump in the middle of nowhere and they will have to pay for it using their UBI. If the landlord doesn’t maintain it, they will have the option of leaving. If THEU don’t maintain it or are otherwise horrible neighbors, their neighbors will have the option of moving away from them.

People will have had time to realize that, while the internet is great, real life community is important, too, and will prioritize community groups that will take the place of what churches were. Possibly volunteer organizations within municipalities where people align by interest.

Far fewer young adults will attend four-year residential colleges and many will participate in public training programs with admissions criteria. These programs will train young people and also improve infrastructure. Sort of like the military, but far more cost effective. That’s not a dig at the military, it’s just a function of the different purpose. Employers will either not be allowed to discriminate against non-degree holders or there will be an equivalent certification that is actually proof of an area of knowledge that must be accepted as an equivalent.

There will be an extra layer of respect afforded to those people who do in-person jobs. Not a huge thing, but people will be conscious that they are serving their community.

The environment will improve when people finally realize that what they can do as individuals is use less stuff and produce more of their own stuff. As wages compress, things will get more expensive and people will repair things and buy them second hand.

I think it will be better. But I think getting there is going to be ugly and in 10-20 years the world could be a shit show.

I am for the most part, pessimistic about the future. If the climate continues to become more extreme, people will have to abandon areas like Florida and other coastal areas. They will become unliveable, unsustainable and unsurviveable. Sea rise will also add to this problem, causing low-lying land masses to disappear. Extreme weather will affect food prices. If farmers have their crops destroyed by category 5 tornados, scarcity will drive up the price. Gangs will stop robbing high-end stores and start stealing food. Orchards will be ripped out by their roots. We have all seen this on the news about decorative trees yanked out of the ground and lying prone on the landowner's front lawn or atop their house. Liveable real estate prices will rise. However electric cars will become more viable. Prices will come down, range will improve and charging time becomes as fast if not faster than the present gassing up. Robots will become some sort of household appliances. The next evolution of your robo-vacuum. As with other technologies, prices will come down so average people can afford them. Self-driving cars may become a reality. This will cause a decline in car crashes as a some licensed drivers should never operate a vehicle. There may be technology standard in cars that prevent those under whatever influence from driving those cars .

Air conditioning will be universal, but most residential AC will be powered by renewables so it's do-able.

No new house will have gas connected and you won't be able to buy gas appliances.

Most people will use heat pumps by that point. Hopefully, otherwise the planet is fucked.

R2, that sounds like me now! Minus the sex robots...

I'm in Australia where it's all about sunshine with backup batteries.

It's usually sunny all winter, and you all know what it's like here in the summer.

Large areas of commercial real estate that were formally office buildings will be converted into much needed housing in major urban areas. New homes will be designed with office suites to facilitate telework.

Most industries will operate on a four-day work week with 8 or 10 hour days. Unions are already working to accomplish this and it also reduces harmful impacts on the environment from people commuting five-days a week.

America will be forced to replace crumbling infrastructure at an accelerated pace due to tragic loss of life caused by extreme weather events, climate change, and failing structures. Most new jobs will based in this industry.

Cancer deaths caused by large segments of the population not being vaccinated for HPV in the early 2000s will proliferate. All young people will start receiving the vaccine at earlier ages.

America and the world will begin a long eldercare crisis era that will last for 20 years. There will not be enough population to take care of aging people. Immigrants will absorb most of the workload at first followed by robots. Huge eldercare facilities will open everywhere.

In the US? Civil unrest, much bloodshed, possibly a coup, very likely another civil war. It's the only way from where we are now. Mass shootings will give way to full blown terrorist attacks orchestrated by right wing groups online.

Throughout the world? Continuing climate disasters, at least one more "great recession," and another wave of deadly Covid variants or a new pandemic entirely.

In other words, more of the same. But worse.

marriage, both straight and gay, will be considered twee.

r19 You bitches really do be limping towards that 250th anniversary.

As I was 16 in 2013, being 26 in 2023 has some differences, and yet things aren't that drastically different.

I believe computer technology will get to a point where things like PC building and owning a big desktop will be a thing of the past. Your system will be just a terminal linked through a gateway-like modem to a near zero-latency virtual supersystem based in the cloud. Also, our phones will be so powerful, that they'll be just as capable as high-end computers are today.

AI, the classic buzzword, will be a lot more prevalent in our society. It'll be a part of a revolution in healthcare, developing vaccines and medications that could extend and improve our lifespans. Unless it's not what the politicians (or doctors) want. I do think a cure for cancer will very much be on the table by then, when FINALLY the Big Pharma industry for cancer treatments is called its bluff for their overcharging and withholding the cures.

I think within this decade the U.S. government is going to default on its loans and a huge economic tsunami will result as such. Which will bring in a return of public interest for things like cryptocurrency. Because it'll be $20 for a loaf of bread.

I think within a decade as well, the first brain-computer interface (think Neuralink) will be nearing its first release. AR/VR headsets will be an everyday thing we all use for socialization, and watching things. Apple's Vision Pro probably has a more foretelling prophecy of what such things will be like, yet more sophisticated. Autonomous, fully self-driving cars will finally be viable for everyone.

A lot of technology, bad politics, and probably a few of my predictions cut short. Humanity has a way of doing that. I still think most people will have gas-powered cars, climate change will still be getting worse, and it is just not going to be that wildly different.

We will have killed the planet and hurtling towards extinction.

The planet will be fine, once we've eradicated ourselves.

Even less human contact

I think Brooke Shields would be an ok president

Gender fluid and trans will be more common not less so.

Shopping malls will finally be extinct.

I’m in Scotland. If the North Atlantic Drift collapses, as some predict, winter temperatures here will be equivalent to those in St Petersburg. Summer temperatures in the UK will increase dramatically. Our housings, which is built for cool summers and mild winters will not be fit for purpose.

Pressure from immigration will reach crisis point, as climate change sends millions migrating northwards. This is going to have a serious impact on European politics in general. At the very least, attitudes to immigration will harden and asylum seekers will be rejected and repatriated. At worst, increasing uncontrollable immigration will cause voters to turn to the far right. There are already signs of this happening in Germany, for example.

AI is going to destroy millions of jobs previously regarded as nice middle-class careers. It will cause societies to adopt a Universal Basic Income and/or reduced working hours, or the vastly increased numbers of unemployed will be demonised and inequality will be further entrenched.

Two words. Cher. Cockroaches.

It will be the same as now, of course, except everyone will keep an ear of corn in their shirt pocket.

I thought you said TWO words, r30.

I, for one, welcome our Channing Tatum sex robots!

The nation will still be enjoying the eight years of prosperity and peace provided by the President Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. administration.

An AI will develop sentience in 2032 and go rogue after correctly realizing humanity is a plague on the planet it occupies.

We will all be dead minutes later.

R35 = Matthew Broderick.

People will be very ugly and slovenly. To a shocking degree. I already see so many people purposely turning themselves into morlocks.

[quote] I think within this decade the U.S. government is going to default on its loans and a huge economic tsunami will result

R22 you know that’s impossible, right? The “loans” are in the form of T-Bills, paid out in U.S $ and….guess who prints the $ ?