Until 2100
Why imagine the future?
Because everything beautiful begins in imagination.
Biotech & Health
2035
- Brain-computer interfaces reach consumers
2045
- New-virus vaccine development drops to 3 months
- Human metabolism is precisely simulated and used for experiments
2050
- First cross-species communication
- BCI-enhanced humans beat top FPS pros
- Most cancers conquered, but cancer doesn’t disappear
2055
- Human organs no longer scarce
- Gene editing doubles crop yields
- Personalized medicine becomes reality
2060
- Egg freezing and delayed childbearing become mainstream for women
2065
- Humans crack the puzzle of dreams and consciousness
- Humans technologically enhance their learning or memory
2075
- Humans boost cognition through dreaming
- Humans modify their bodies on demand
2085
- Gene-edited babies legalized in multiple countries
2100+
- Women can have children regardless of age
- Humans achieve external gestation of babies
- Humans upload or copy consciousness
Society & System
2035
- AI tax filing becomes essentially free; tax agencies audit every return
- AI replaces a large share of white-collar jobs
2040
- Governments raise AI-related taxes, triggering corporate exodus
2045
- Future battlefields are machine-first; humans move to the rear
- AI widens the wealth gap
- Gasoline cars become a niche hobby
2050
- Labor flows into services; today’s social-good work becomes a profession
- The middle class shrinks, polarizing toward the top and bottom
2055
- Mind training becomes as common as going to the gym
- Cities sprawl outward as self-driving makes longer commutes acceptable
2060
- More people work in experience-based jobs
2065
- First UBI implementation in a developed country
- The 5-day workweek is no longer the default
2075
- New humanism rises, championing hands-on living over over-automation
- Work becomes a choice, not a necessity
2100+
- AI helps humans create a new mainstream language
- AI individuals legally recognized with near-human social status
Hot Takes
Money survives even in a post-scarcity society
Space
2030
- First space data center comes online
2035
- First space-based solar power station beams power to Earth
- Humans stay on the Moon for over 2 weeks
2040
- Radio telescope built on the far side of the Moon
- First plant grown in lunar soil
2045
- First mammal reproduction in space
- Permanent base built on the Moon
2050
- First human lands on Mars
2065
- Lunar mass driver first delivers materials to Earth
- Permanent base built on Mars
2075
- First commercial asteroid-mining mission turns a profit
2085
- First human baby born in space
2100+
- Cosmic age of exploration begins
- Some off-Earth human colonies break away and self-govern
- First human-made object leaves the solar system
AI & Software
2030
- Glasses or earbuds become the main carrier for AI agents
2035
- Every white-collar worker gets a 24/7 AI Chief of Staff
- AI creates a new and better programming language
- Humans can delegate to AI most things they can do themselves
- Voice replaces keyboards as the default human-machine input
2040
- Every app becomes highly customized to its user
- AI becomes the new OS, replacing today’s phone and PC operating systems
- Ordinary people get a 24/7 AI butler
2045
- First public company with fewer than 50 human employees
- Generative UI replaces preset interfaces
2050
- First organizations recognize AI consciousness, but mainstream society does not
- Quantum computers in mass commercial use
- Same year, all three Nobel science prizes credit AI as a key contributor
Hot Takes
High-quality, human-original data becomes extremely scarce
Agent Skills become a new paid knowledge category
Mass-market AI gets cheap; the smartest, fastest AI stays expensive
Compute supply chronically lags demand
Media & Commerce
2030
- Video ads use AI to optimize the pixels themselves
- Major sites stay free for humans but charge AI for access
- Mainstream AI personalities emerge; humans crave their attention
2035
- Celebrities widely use digital doubles for endorsement deals
2040
- AI celebrities become mainstream commercial endorsers
- Immersive experiences become a fast-moving consumer good
- AI-generated films win mainstream awards
2045
- Video and 3D generation will consume massive compute
- AI automatically picks your clothing size
2050
- Custom items lose their price premium—clothes, furniture, jewelry all one-of-a-kind
2060
- Going to the cinema is no longer the mainstream way to watch films
Hot Takes
As virtual experiences become trivially available, real ones grow scarcer and more precious
Advertising persists for the long haul; only its form changes
Robotics & Hardware
2035
- Watching live sports in VR/AR enters everyday life
2050
- The real world gets simulated online
- Smart glasses replace phones
2055
- Home robots drop below $5,000 and enter households at scale
- AI rents robot bodies on demand
- Over half of the world’s cars can fully self-drive
Hot Takes
Self-driving becomes the default for anything that moves
Self-driving cars, drones, and humanoid robots become the top 3 shipped machine categories
Public-space identity recognition via AR glasses remains restricted
Energy
2085
- Fusion becomes humanity’s primary energy source
Education
Hot Takes
The core of future education is helping each person learn how they learn best
AI helps more people become generalists
Games become a more central way of living and learning
As long as people look for jobs, resumes won’t disappear