How do you think the 2020s will look like and beyond? Lets put some things into perspective first.
>First iPhone released in 2007 setting a new large scale product phenomenon a whopping 12 years ago. >5G is already being produced. >For gaming, the PS4 released in mid november 2013 >Tesla autopilot debuted in 2015
Looking at the 2010 era in retrospect, wifi was integrated into many appliances making them "smart", many things became electric over using alternative resources, and programming became more available to many prospective students. "AI" became more widespread and thrown into applications such as Siri, Bigsby, Google Homes, and Amazon's Alexa.
For my own predictions, driving will soon be seen as retro, autopilot driving may soon become the norm. Desktops will become something that's streamable and all that will be required will be a monitor with an internet connection. Wireless charging will have increased range, and appliances will not have to be plugged in.
A UNIX-based OS will become commonplace in American households by 2026-2029. It'll take time to phase out Windows once Apple dies.
Nicholas Long
1366 x 768 is going to be still the default laptop resolution
Adam Russell
>he doesn't know
Ian Baker
Laptop computers will be thinner—and lighter, to boot.
Aiden Jones
A unix based system made by Microsoft
Easton Nelson
retard >Desktops will become something that's streamable and all that will be required will be a monitor with an internet connection. this is already commonplace, but not as much for home computing
Kevin Cox
Machine learning and deepfakes makes it trivial for anyone to create fake video and video can no longer be accepted as irrefutable evidence. As a result, the number of people using the "Shaggy Defense" in court will skyrocket as defendants accuse the prosecution of faking video evidence.
No, because republicans will change and adapt. Trump is only the beginning of that, expect them to continually reinvent themselves and search for a new identity over the course of the next decade or two. For the past 50 years from the time boomers were old enough to vote to ~2010, the republicans were relatively stagnant. But now that the boomers are beginning to die off and zoomers have different political views, you'll see the Republicans change their party to appeal to zoomers more. One of the things that they'll do is appeal more to Hispanic people. As Hispanic people slowly integrate into the country, they'll begin to be considered white/American in the same way as other immigrant groups in the past. And Hispanics tend to be fairly conservative on issues other than immigration. So once the boomers die off, you'll see the Republicans cave on the immigration issue and pick up a massive swath of Hispanic voters.
Joseph Fisher
>"AI" will get better, with more algorithms produced >Windows will be scrapped completely and replaced with a UNIX based OS. Different design but the same spyware. >Facebook will shut down or at least die. >Cryptocurrency mining will have a jump in profitability, only to fall once again. >The year of the linux desktop will never happen >AR will be the new fad >Deepfakes will become more popular and people will use it like said >GPL usage will drop even more, MIT and Apache will continue to grow >Jow Forums will shut down >Chrome will be overtaken by the "new" browser (most likely something just as bad as chrome) >The desktop will get a new standard design, like that article where Jason Yuan said "The desktop metaphor must die" >CRT monitors will go mainstream and die off within a year those are my predictions. I'm probably wrong but they seem plausible
Brody Clark
>We make predictions about the Future
Government gives more welfare gibs to shitskins and biocunts
Jaxson Long
Exactly. Boomer conservatism is practically dead already. Conservatism going left will leave a power vacuum on the right though.... I only hope that it's a more "reasonable" platform and not hell bent on genocide. Time will tell. Many Gen Xers I know are becoming blatantly racist. A "dumb" racism as opposed to the Jared Taylor'esque freedom of association type of ideals. Gen X nihilism could fuck us.
Austin Cook
>As Hispanic people slowly integrate into the country, they'll begin to be considered white/American
>Many Gen Xers I know are becoming blatantly racist.
Because GenXers are as fucked in the economy as millineals are, GenXers are getting passed over in manufacturing by spics, business by women and nigs, and by pajeets in tech
Isaac Brooks
Based Xiaomi will begin to sell in North America
Noah Hall
Meh, that wouldn't correlate well. Gen Xers get fucked less by diversity because they have work experience. Harder to deny them job opportunities. if anything, millenials should be the Hitler youth, but they're not. They soft. I have hope for Zoomers though. Imagine being a teenager playing some dumb online video game and you cant say faggot or nigger. Those were staple words in those days of youth. Imagine being so verbally neutured.
Eli Anderson
>"AI" will get better, with more algorithms produced Agreed >Windows will be scrapped completely and replaced with a UNIX based OS. Different design but the same spyware. LOL not a chance. Backwards compatibility will prevent this from ever happening. >Facebook will shut down or at least die. Wishful thinking, normies will never abandon their carefully curated algorithms designed to give you a dopamine hit. It's an addiction and it'll never end until some sort of law is passed preventing them from psychologically manipulating people >Cryptocurrency mining will have a jump in profitability, only to fall once again. Maybe. But it'll never go "to the moon", as the fanboys say, or come anywhere close to replacing the fiat of first world countries. >AR will be the new fad It already is, with stuff like Pokemon Go >Deepfakes will become more popular and people will use it like said Yup >GPL usage will drop even more, MIT and Apache will continue to grow Yeah, GPL was a noble experiment, but copyleft just isn't practical for anything that's ever going to be touched by someone wanting to make money. >Jow Forums will shut down Unfortunately, you might be right. At some point, some shooter will probably post their manifesto on Jow Forums and land the site in hot water with internet companies. If that happens though someone will make a replacement site and everyone will migrate over to it and make it the de facto new Jow Forums, in the same way as neogaf migrated to resetera >Chrome will be overtaken by the "new" browser (most likely something just as bad as chrome) Nah, Chrome is incredibly entrenched and it will take some major improvement to even get people to consider another browser. The only thing I could see happening is if Microsoft or some other megacorp makes a hard fork of Chromium and it replaces Google's Chromium as the de facto repo. >The desktop will get a new standard design, like that article where Jason Yuan said "The desktop metaphor must die" ...
Austin Lopez
>If that happens though someone will make a replacement site and everyone will migrate over to it and make it the de facto new Jow Forums
Can we just conquer reddit and put steve in an asylum for the rest of his days?
Connor Gomez
...cont. Doubt it. The current design of the desktop is pretty much peak productivity. Any attempts to change it have created less productive interfaces like touchscreens and motion controls, which have failed to supplant the desktop for productivity. And a lot of people don't really use the "desktop" metaphor anymore anyway. I have icons turned off on my desktop so it's just a wallpaper. >CRT monitors will go mainstream and die off within a year I doubt they'll go mainstream. I imagine they're expensive to manufacture and getting a company to open a CRT factory in 2019 is a hard sell. If new CRTs are made, they will probably be a niche enthusiast item with a high price tag due to low volume produced.
William Turner
>Wishful thinking, normies will never abandon their carefully curated algorithms designed to give you a dopamine hit. It's an addiction and it'll never end until some sort of law is passed preventing them from psychologically manipulating people I said Facebook, not social media as a whole. I don't think zoomers use Facebook all that much. At least they realize Facebook's privacy is shit. >It already is, with stuff like Pokemon Go VR is way more popular right now. I know pokemon go and minecraft earth are big but I was thinking like google glass and shit >LOL not a chance. Backwards compatibility will prevent this from ever happening. I didn't think about backwards compatibility. Maybe they'll make a new UNIX OS but slow development on windows and make it a legacy system like ReactOS
Xavier Reyes
>At least they realize Facebook's privacy is shit. Implying normies care. >VR is popular Correct. Although mixed reality will probably be the major breakthrough.
Ryan Lewis
> I said Facebook, not social media as a whole. I don't think zoomers use Facebook all that much. At least they realize Facebook's privacy is shit. Perhaps. The boomer-ization of Facebook is a real trend that might put off zoomers from using it. But in any case, I think Facebook as a company still has the zoomer audience locked down with stuff like Instagram and Whatsapp. So it's not as if they're switching to open source consumer friendly alternatives. > VR is way more popular right now. I know pokemon go and minecraft earth are big but I was thinking like google glass and shit The trouble is, I struggle to think of a real killer app for AR. Even stuff like the Pokemon and Minecraft games are still basically gimmicks at their core. They just superimpose a cartoony animated character or some blocks over the background image. Not particularly groundbreaking or technologically impressive. > I didn't think about backwards compatibility. Maybe they'll make a new UNIX OS but slow development on windows and make it a legacy system like ReactOS If they actually did this, I'd be the first to try it out, but I have trouble believing they'd throw away 30 years of progress, features, and native compatibility just for the sake of being Unix like. What's in it for them? It's not as if Windows' market share has declined significantly over the past few decades.
Chase Garcia
Starlink is looking pretty interesting. High speed, low latency internet everywhere on Earth is all sorts of useful, alongside its ability to offer lower than fiber latency for long haul financial connections, which the high frequency merchants will like & pay for. Their first launch went well enough (56 out of 60 sats working) and they have 9 more launches scheduled in the next 10 months.
> 56 out of 60 sats working That's considered good? Imagine if 1 out of every 1 planes didn't work right when launched. What happened to the other 4?
Mason Gray
Facebook has too much drama associated with it. It will go the way of myspace, which is not to say social media will die. Instead it will thrive in become more segregated forms, probably as privacy-raping apps as that seems to be what normies like.
Angel Roberts
Non responsive or didn't work to spec. If a satellite fails, they just have to send up a new one in the same orbit, but with the amount that they're launching they will also send up "spares" (overprovisioning) in case of a failure
Gavin Hughes
anything else would be pointless.
Kayden Thompson
Privacy exists for those who seek it out. It'll be a lot harder to do in the years to come. Even for those apps/programs that commoditize your identity, people are rather good at hiding in plain sight amongst the noisy crowd.
Jason Price
everything is still the same but w/ slightly more electric cars and RGB than 2019
Camden Myers
>the year is 2029 you go home to your shipping container after a long day in your wage-cage at the Amazon fulfillment center. hopefully you can enjoy some maggot sausage served by your bootleg lolicon android, but first you have to evade the roaming packs of feral cyberfurries who want to eat your ass.
It already is - consumer (read: shit) routers all run Linux, as do all those crappy IoT toys that people use once and forget.
Parker Ortiz
My shares in Microsoft will increase in value.
Levi Myers
Slight variations this dystopia are always 10 to 20 years away, ever since the 1960s. When are you going to give up on it?
Asher Butler
Much more IoT devices. Very cheap electronics of respectable quality (sold at a loss) that collect large amounts of user information. Almost all work is done in the web browser, Chromebooks become the dominant desktop OS.
Carter Lewis
Someone will male a predictipn thread on Jow Forums then immediately suck dicks
Landon Phillips
unix is depreciated, retard
Elijah Green
Obama will return to power.
Jason Phillips
1 out of every 2 children will be autistic
Xavier Carter
so linux is unix
Zachary Harris
>looks into crystal ball I am going to spend my savings on a world tour, and then I am going to commit suicide
Evan Hughes
>ARM will become the base architecture for processors on laptops, that along with x86 which will be mainly used only on desktop gaming PCs >Windows will finally have a better ARM version thanks to that >iPadOS will replace macOS and Macbooks will be combined with the iPads >if Windows for ARM is trash, Linux will finally take advantage and deliver a superior experience when devs will not put up with the frankenshit that Windows is >Intel will lose power >huge skyrocket in phone performance >streaming will be the norm I guess these events will happen between 2020-2030. Mark my words, Jow Forumsentlemen, the world of computing will be the weirdest out there.
>the frankenshit that Windows is But I like being able to choose between tablet mode and desktop mode on my tablet.
Thomas Lewis
Privacy concerns will kill smartphones Windows will start fucking dying Consoles will die out because people realize PCs are better in every way Self-driving cars will be illegal after people realize computers suck at doing mission critical shit on their own, something ANYONE WHO HAS EVER FUCKING DEALT WITH COMPUTERS CAN FUCKING TELL YOU The internet will start reverting back to its primeval state now that normies don't have their shitphones and idiots don't have their Windows and interest in shitty normie online bullshit dies out Basically a huge technological reboot into a world where computers are simply tools to use, not fucking shit that controls everything. A better world.
Elijah Richardson
THE YEAR IS 2043 Pressure has been placed on governments to ban human drivers from public roadways in the name of safety. Being a car owner is now similar to being a gun owner. "Anti-driving" advocates are gaining political power. >"You don't NEED to drive a car!" >"lol ok sweetie, enjoy your 2000 pound death machine" >"It's for our safety!" >"I shouldn't have to worry about some REDNECK car nut hitting my child!" >"Ugh, how can some average Joe just go out and buy a 400 horsepower killing machine? We need common sense car control." >*bad accident on news* "SEE? This is why we can't trust humans to drive cars." >Waitwaitwait, you seriously think that self-driving cars are a privacy concern? LOL OK, conspiracy theorist, take of the tinfoil hat. "The gubmint is stalkin me!!!" Yes, autonomous cars are traceable and give out their location to the ride sharing services and can be controlled remotely, what does it matter?" >"Um, do you know how many people DIE from car accidents? Our safety is more important than your freedom, dumbass."
Bullshit All bullshit You especially pissed me off about ai failing at mission critical bullshit Ai beats humans everytime unless it is programmed to fail
Levi Morris
>AI beats humans everytime You have zero experience in anything related to technology, kid. Stop pretending you do. Hell, you can't even rely on your fucking shitphone and your shitty desktop OS to reliably deliver your fucking garbage memes to you, how the fuck are you going to rely on a computer to KEEP YOU FUCKING ALIVE?
James Evans
This and many other predictions in this thread sound more like fantasies and wishful thinking rather than anything based in reality.
Robert Watson
everyone will have aids from 7G
Chase Moore
It's an awesome fantasy though. Would you rather hope for a continued shit world filled with lack of privacy and other technology-based oppression, or a good world where technology is limited and we regain freedom and control? Work toward the world that's best for us, not what's best for big businesses and oppressive governments.
Joseph Evans
Xiaomi will get Ban in USA in 2022, because of spying issue.
As long as they don't see the reason to change to Android One instead of miui.
Benjamin Scott
I like your optimistic attitude, it's not something you'd see often in a world of pessimism and false joy. However, to be completely realistic, the goal's you're describing can't just happen to their own, and it certainly won't happen just by posting about it on Jow Forums. Be the change you want to see.
Josiah Peterson
IoT and smart devices will be so prevalent that traditional computers will be obsolete save for work related things, but at home it might go the way of the television
Jason Cook
2020 YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP! YOU HEARD IT FIRST HERE!
Nathaniel James
>OS as a service / hardware as a service Microsoft already expressed interest in this, soon we'll be renting operating systems instead of buying them outright. As operating systems become rent to own so will hard disk space, then ram and GPU/cpu etc. Eventually only nerds will own their own hardware, and everyone else will have a keyboard, mouse and monitor hooked up to the cloud for 5.99 a month :^)
>Same thing for software as a service Same as above, you'll see more software adopt this model. Lots of software (Adobe, intelliJ) do this already because of piracy and of course corporate greed.
>AI dystopia China is at the front lines of screwing their citizens using ai, facial recognition, etc. It might be a while before we see it here but America will eventually adopt face recognition cameras on the streets, automated machine learning systems that will red flag naughty citizens etc
>Work crisis Same ai will swallow certain jobs whole. Driving, stocking shelves, working registers, cleaning, etc. As soon as they become commonplace and cheap enough to replace human labor, there will be a mass exodus from these jobs
Honestly can't think of much good happening in the future lol, with the way things are going
Juan Foster
1920x1080 has been the default for years just with display scaling.
Gabriel Price
Technological development will largely stall as people will be too busy fighting race wars.
Parker Green
>I wasn't born yet but they were already selling iphones You tell em op
>As Hispanic people slowly integrate into the country, They don't integrate though.
Easton Wright
The hatred for whites will become palpable and the intentions of certain globalist politicians will become more and more apparent how they intend to flood the West with 10's of millions of 3rd world migrants. Social order will be maintained by all the debt purchased gimmiedats the left wing parties of the west will throw to its citizens but over time these things will be less and less effective and eventually a breakdown and civil war will break out.
Parker King
No; by the U.S. Government.
On personal computers.*
My apologies, I should've said UNIX-"like", which is what it is. Well, technically. It's made in company of Nokia, which isn't the same Bell Labs under AT&T. Imagine a modern OS, but it uses something like CDE or FVWM for a desktop. It just needs user-friendly interfaces, but the sector doesn't care at the moment.
