• ExLisper@linux.communityEnglish
    70·
    1 year ago

    Not much different. Foldable phones will be widespread, American cars will be bigger, shaving machines will have more blades, natural disasters will be more common. We will go through one or two more cycles of drought/forest fires and heavy rains/floodings. We will see one or two mass migrations from India, Pakistan and Africa resulting in first climate refuge camps on the borders of EU.

    • mortrek@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      The year that most people start using Linux is the year that it will find some way to sell out. *I know that it’s not a monolothic thing, GPL, etc. but people ruin everything… enshittification, uh, finds a way

  • Extras@lemmy.today
    571·
    1 year ago

    My guess: Electric vehicles everywhere, protests, more linux users, and portless phones will be the norm

    Edit: Oh yeah privacy is dead or at least much more harder to obtain

    • MJBrune@beehaw.org
      71·
      1 year ago

      More Linux users is really a coin flip in my mind. It feels like Linux had more users in 2016 than now. Linux had more games natively support it than today and proton for be had been really hit or miss. We’ll see if steam os ever comes to the desktop because I could see that being a major benefit to the Linux market but I don’t see it significantly growing before then on desktops.

      • 4am@lemm.ee
        7·
        1 year ago

        You can install Proton (the game compatibility layer) on desktop Linux now, can’t you?

        • MJBrune@beehaw.org
          59·
          1 year ago

          Yes, you always could. That’s not my point at all. Linux in general has been less stable through updates than Windows in my expense and in a lot of people’s experience. Steam os preserves root and wipes all packages that aren’t supported in the base install every update. So it forces stability. This is the length Valve has gone to in order to make Linux stable. Android is also stable in that same way. By making root fs essentially read only.

          To make Linux more stable you have to reduce user choice and a lot of users are okay with this.

  • HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world
    573·
    1 year ago

    The futuristic world of 2033 will be very different from our current primitive one. Humans will be seven foot tall with thumbs as long as fingers. Mars will have been fully terraformed, whilst there’ll be hundreds of vast floating cities on Venus. A Dyson swarm will encircle the solar system just beyond Neptune’s orbit. Humanity will communicate telepathically as one with AI. We still won’t understand cats.

  • Nonameuser678@aussie.zone
    422·
    1 year ago

    We will likely have hit 1.5 + degrees of warming in 10 years time so our society may look quite different. It’s likely that our supply chains will be disrupted by this and become more localised as rising temperatures / intensifying weather events impact our capacity to grow / distribute as much food as we do now. There may potentially be Pacific Nations that no longer exist due to sea level rise. We will likely also see the beginning of a significant climate refugee crisis that nations in the global north will struggle to respond to.

    • Pissnpink@feddit.uk
      331·
      1 year ago

      I grilled dinner tonight out on our deck wearing a painters mask because the smoke from the wildfires around here is so thick it looks like it’s pissing rain outside. Only when I caught myself in the mirror with my plate, mask and tongs did I start to think, this seems a little odd.

  • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    29·
    1 year ago

    I watched a documentary about this recently. The franchise wars should be coming up soon that allows all restaurants to become Taco Bell.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
        3·
        1 year ago

        They’ll just bring GTA V to the PlayStation 6. That’s all Rockstar do now, they make the same game again and again and again and again and again and again and again and then sell it to you every time, and every time you buy it.

  • Bye@lemmy.world
    251·
    1 year ago

    The developed world will run out of charity.

    We’ve spent the last 300 years essentially looting resources and labor from poorer parts of the world. And when they finally decide that enough is enough, that they want a piece of the pie, they won’t be able to get it.

    Climate refugees will be killed at closely guarded border crossings. Fishing boats will be torpedoed. Encampments will be burned.

    In “rich” countries, the poor will be gradually cut off. Their labor value will decrease even further, and there won’t be anything left for them. In some places, public housing and healthcare will allow them to limp on, until many are killed by the next pandemic.

    The wealthy will enjoy what they have, their lives barely interrupted. The world will not look very different to them.

  • LongPigFlavor@lemmy.ml
    21·
    1 year ago

    More climate refugees, more crop failures due to worsening climate change, more deaths due to climate change

  • BitSound@lemmy.world
    223·
    1 year ago

    We’re definitely going to see jobs affected by ChatGPT and the like. It’s an open question of “Can LLMs do things as well as humans?” across the board, but when have you seen a company turn down a deal like “slightly shittier, but costs pennies on the dollar and doesn’t have any pesky ‘rights’”?

  • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
    278·
    1 year ago

    In the west and culturally, a post-boomer period will have begun. And I think there’ll be continued evaluation of what mistakes that era made especially as climate change looms as an increasingly damaging debt. In a similar vein, the relationship with capitalism and big corps is, I think, going to get messy and more polarised, in part because the mistakes we’ve made will be hard to disentangle for many.

    Overall, I suspect that for many paying attention, the downfall of the west will seem more and more plausible and closer and that will create a contentious atmosphere.

    • OnionQuest@lemmy.ml
      9·
      1 year ago

      Downfall of the West relative to who? The whole world is impacted by climate change and the West is best positioned to manage its effects.

      • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        I did say “overall”, it wasn’t premised entirely on climate change. My concern is that the systems of government, influence and leadership have been pretty badly corrupted. No other region or culture needs to be better for this to be true … all cultures/civilisations have periods of decay without “dying” or being conquered.

      • Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        Social media was already massive, it was just primarily Facebook and Twitter (Arab Spring heavily involved social media). The US tea party movement had been around for a few years, some people were still very jazzed up about Affordable Care Act, only part of the defense of marriage act had been overturned and lawsuits would continue for a few more years. Conservatives hated Obama and were already talking about taking their country back.

        Most everything in the US is just extrapolation plus some pandemic fuel.

    • CoffeeBlood91@lemmy.ca
      53·
      1 year ago

      In 10 years we went through a huge jump. Mass use of smart phones, new PoS systems, the internet has become overly censored, forest fires like we have never seen before, covid, powerful handhelds, AI… Things are exponential right now

      • Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Smart phones were already huge. The first Pixel came out in 2013, replacing the Nexus, the iPhone was on the 5 and 5s, and the Galaxy S4 was released.

        Covid, AI, larger fires are the main things out of your examples that have changed dramatically, but I don’t think any of them have been exponential changes. For most people, covid is probably the largest, and if they did not lose anybody and are healthy themselves, the main thing that changed is potential wfh options and everything being more expensive.

        • Zron@lemmy.world
          21·
          1 year ago

          Thank you. I feel like I’m talking crazy pills reading this thread.

          The world wasn’t a terribly different place ten years ago. Sure, some things are more messed up now, and we have some neat new widgets. But i seriously doubt Apple Pay, the steam deck, and fancy autocorrect I mean chatGPT, have really shifted the world that much.

          More people having smart phones has lead to a societal change where they’re becoming more and more necessary for everyday life, but I could still love my life without one just fine, and many of my older family members are doing just that. I think I’ve used Apple Pay like once in my life when I forgot my wallet at home, and chatGPT reminds me of talking to a dementia patient more than Skynet.

          Now if the question was what the year 2053 would be like, that would be way more interesting. Back in 1993, I don’t think anyone would have accurately guessed what was going on now. Being able to browse the internet on your phone would have seemed nearly pointless and infinitely painful. The internet and internet advertising being a deciding factor in national elections would sound crazy. Electric cars being somewhat affordable and practical would sound like we live in the jetsons.

          I think 2053 is gonna be wild. Hopefully I don’t die of dehydration or catastrophic weather before we get there.

          • Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            It feels like some people are imagining 2003 instead of 2013, which I get, in my mind 2003 was only about ten years ago too.

      • AFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        Still a matter of degrees. Smart phones were 57% of the market in 2013. Not sure what point of sale system advancements in the last decade you’re talking about that are very revolutionary - we’ve certainly had online connected credit cards systems for decades. Really, all those things are pretty evolutionary in the span we’re taking about, with AI poised to be the most impactful for hasn’t been in the period.

  • k5nn@lemm.ee
    12·
    1 year ago

    With all the dystopian content I’ve been consuming lately I’d say we’re heading to an age of

    Mass surveilance
    Regionalistic Economies in place of globalism
    Widening wealth disparity
    Intensified distrust of our governments

    That is if the tensions in Asia Pacific don’t turn into an all out conflict ( Live in PH )

    • maynarkh@feddit.nl
      8·
      1 year ago

      Let me be a bit more optimistic:

      Mass surveillance

      I think we’re already there, and despite the fact you can see laws signed that would point to more surveillance, you can’t ban encryption effectively. It’s kinda hard to ban maths, much harder than weed or booze, and see how they went. Point is, these laws IMO drive awareness of the issue, and everyone can just encrypt their stuff easily, and enforcement of a ban on that is near impossible.

      Regionalistic Economies in place of globalism

      That’s the geopolitical dream of some countries … but I don’t see the current world order in trade buckling. That said, let’s say that the current world order changes by the USD losing the world’s biggest reserve currency status, what then? Will some countries simply not trade with others because of that? Maybe some pecking orders will rearrange themselves, but no one is interested in destroying the system, people just want their country to dictate instead of the US.

      Widening wealth disparity

      I don’t think it can widen much more, as the pendulum swings both ways. See how socio-economic woes destabilized the US. We either fix the billionaire problem in a legal orderly fashion, or it resolves itself in an uglier way. It can’t get much worse than this without social order breaking down, and then it’s all moot. The rich can move to their New Zealand bunkers or the Moon to escape the mob, it’s not that much different from them dying or going to prison as far as the rest of the world is concerned.

      Intensified distrust of our governments

      Have we ever trusted them? And to be honest, should we trust them? I mean I think governments are less untrustworthy than corporations, but still, they have power, and thus should be scrutinized. And besides, the loonies who always vote for the biggest idiot already don’t trust the government. If this growing distrust results in more participation in politics from decent people who just want to live their lives, that’s a good thing.

      • LoreleiSankTheShip@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        I think wealth disparity can get much worse than this. People used to be enslaved and forced into serfdom. The people on top wouldn’t have to win if the people revolted, they just have to not lose and let the people who already struggle die from starvation. Such a scenario is highly unpredictable and personally I still think the people would win, but it’s definitely an uphill battle that’s getting harder the more we remain passive.