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I don't think I am very good at future predictions or expectations. Thirty years ago I never expected what we have now.

I've got a pretty simple one: I'm going to die of natural causes in the near future. According to the doctors I should have a couple of years ago already and yet I am still here.

Right now I am homeless in one of the so called richest countries on this planet and there is nothing left. Been through all the social welfare programs. No job, no money, no hope. One day we're all going to die so it doesn't matter anyway.

I've started the "computer hobby" in the 1970s and was communicating with fellow "computer freaks" (that was an insult back then and probably it is again now) before the World Wide Web existed. Modern social media always was a big No-No for me. Three days ago I've decided to join the Lemmy World/Fediverse and I'm going to post whatever I want to just for the fun of it. Maybe that's my way of spending some time with people. Maybe it's my way of sharing something with the world. Maybe I'll write my autobiography here. Yes, I am serious and real. No, I am not obligated to provide "proof" for the keyboard warriors out there. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

• Microsoft will unironically release their own Linux distro

Trump will live to be 102 just because life isn't fair

With so many AI data centres needing so much power and none seeming to use solar power etc, we'll start seeing "grid rationing" where suburbs will get "time zones" where there will be power and no power.

Instead of people rising up or pushing back, they will get distracted by arguing that certain/richer suburbs get prioitised more than lower class suburbs.

Not completely baseless, but Florida is going to go bankrupt one year and cause a major political problem for the US.

I think there will be some crazy scientific breakthrough that will change everything.

Totally baseless, and it's mostly the idiot optimist inside me that believes it, but I kind of have to believe it else I'll go bananaser then I already am.

Have you seen Elysium?

Yeah...pretty much that. In some form or another. It won't necessarily be the wealthy people blasting off to a space station, more likely just hiding away on luxury islands while the rest of the world continues to go to shit.

The AI bubble will burst sometime in 2027/early 2028.

Trump will use the financial collapse as an excuse to suspend elections.

The majority will be too busy scrambling to survive to complain.

AI at scale will flop, but will return later as open source small businessess tool.

Oligarchs, frustrated with dealing with their political sockpuppets, start just buying countries.

Geoengineering to combat climate change by mass carbon capture will be the solution that saves humanity but will arrive too late to prevent some harrowing effects.

Self-driving vehicles will become good enough to technically be safer for passengers than human drivers soon, but the stigma around them will continue for a long time after they are road legal and their uptake will be very slow.

Pretty sure I'm going to find myself in some kind of mass migration by highway, get identified at a checkpoint as politically unacceptable in some way, then get moved to a large empty sports stadium with about 1-2 hundred other people, then get marched out onto the field and shot. I saw it very vividly in a dream that did not fade after waking up.

I think the earth is going to metaphorically say enough is enough and step in to fix climate change because humans are too selfish and greedy to do it ourselves. I think this is going to come by way of a massive volcanic eruption that causes short term global cooling while killing a good chunk of the population across a large geographical area both from the immediate disaster and the resulting long term damage from widespread ash/famine that could result.

We will go to war with the EU/NATO with Russia.

The world order will collapse when brainrot GenZ will take the reins

Stargates

My country will pivot to the far left the economy will get even worse then we will aggressively swing to the far right and things will get even worse then we will get dragged into a stupid war by a stupid right wing ghoul.

Trump dead ,and having street parties over the world.

Ebola 3.0 and bird flu attack on the humans

I think AI desktop apps like claude desktop will replace the web browser.

I think cooling jackets with built-in fans will become a fashion statement in the west