We’ll probably be up to the iPhone 22 but I doubt that’s what they’ll call it.
We will have missed the majority of the global warming deadlines to transition to greener energy by 2030 with most companies pushing out their timeliness to 2050.
The buzz around AI will have died down a bit but the technology will have found its niche and been adopted both as a useful tool and the next step of enshittification against users.
The SpaceX Mars mission will still be nowhere to be found
The first $10 trillion+ market cap company will exist by then
There will be some other, different conflict in the middle-east
The invasion of Taiwan will have either already been attempted or China gives up on it and decides to focus on building their own fabs
Putin is still in control of Russia but extremely rarely seen outside of his bunker. Thee are many conspiracies that he is dead and has been replaced by a double
The war in Ukraine has stalled with neither party being able to achieve complete victory. There is an armistice in place but not a proper peace accord
The price of food has almost doubled again compared to today but wages only increased by 60%
There is an even higher social tension between the left and right but people are unwilling to try to break out of the two party system
Lemmy has 2-3 x users compared to today but is still a niche platform
Let’s see.
Seems pretty realistic to me.