World War 3: Return of the Civil War
Pandemic 2: Bird Measles
Depression 2
All at the same time
this post was submitted on 10 Mar 2025
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Communicating with AI becomes indistinguishable from human contact, unless it's face-to-face. While promising to solve the loneliness epidemic and provide safe and effective therapy for anyone who wants it, it also unleashes a torrent of convincing AI propaganda. Technocrats using AI and charismatic humans as useful idiots and a front, effectively rule the world. Most people are poor and go hungry, but resistance is futile. There is no safe way to communicate except meeting in person, and there are few safe spaces to even meet that aren't under constant surveillance. Organizing any resistance is incredibly difficult, if not hopeless. Truth is no more.
"Hey, remember when everyone was so freaked out by AI?"
Humans are quite bad at predicting the future, so I'm going with an easy one.
China will do nothing and somehow win.
The United States will no longer be a member of NATO or the United Nations or both. The US is being labeled as an adversary by Germany, so in 10 years, the United States may very well lose half of it's allies because of these 4 years we're enduring.
Russia could still lose it's war with Ukraine and may have lost because of the combined efforts of the EU since the US 10 years ago (accounting the time scale) has abandoned Ukraine. Russia and the United States could very well be allies by this point which would make the world arm themselves since we're seeing countries retaliate in trade wars.
Inflation in 10 years will be the new norm because no politician, Democrat or Republican, can't ever get their marbles of a grasp on holding corporations accountable.
Speaking of Corporations, in 10 years, they would've sucked dry and owned well over every important asset, service and many acquisitions along the way. We would have to make the term 'Megacorp' to identify these corporations by.
China will overtake US as the dominant economic power, exert their influence on neighbouring regions and get more push back than it thought (similar to Russia).
The world will fracture into different regions with different day to day life (even more so).
US will become the wild Wild West where everything goes in the right state.
Canada and Europe (western not Eastern) will stay put in terms of peace, but they will no longer have “the best standard of living”.
Africa will get abused by China and become the next China.
Australia will be like, wtf mate, but they’ll be dead soon… stupid kangaroos.
Well then have a nap
US car company collapse. A major armed conflict between two large economies
Things get "Wild in the Streets" and the voting age is lowered to 15. Everybody over 30 is put into retirement camps and fed LSD all day.
Am over 30, sign me up.