Ask Lemmy

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I can't say this is completely baseless because there's too much out there about it but it will be disclosed that aliens do exist, they're not from other planets but other dimensions, and they've been manipulating mankind for thousands of years.

back in 2017-18 , called out russia was using propaganda bots to drump up articles to astroturf the subs, and look where it has turned into, leading into bannings every year, that got worst over time. the warnings were largely ignored at the time.