In relation to the Technological and Geo-political landscape.
Ask HN: What are your predictions for the next 50 years?
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#2China US cold war at some point of time ? In 5 - 10 years China may become powerful enough to be able to bully all nations bar US to pursue its interests. Economic colonisation of weaker states in Africa and elsewhere (e.g. Pakistan) by China will lead to interesting geopolitical scenarios.
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#3Authoritarian states win against democracies.
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#4I'm hopeful for a more cooperative human centric future. I think we have the technology to replace old systems and ideas. Things are getting better more then they're getting worse for so many people and I really want to see that pattern accelerate to the point all preventable disease is addressed and access to medical care is universal, there is no risk of famine due to technology advances in food production, there is no war, for obvious reasons. And on the other hand, I worry that human beings will mostly be dead and areas that are currently landlocked will be a costal town for the few remaining rich people who have replaced the need for the lower classes by automation. But mostly the former
Re: Ask HN: What are your predictions for the next 50 years?
#5China US cold war at some point of time ? In 5 - 10 years China may become powerful enough to be able to bully all nations bar US to pursue its interests. Economic colonisation of weaker states in Africa and elsewhere (e.g. Pakistan) by China will lead to interesting geopolitical scenarios.
My forecast for near future geopolitics is grim as collateral damages will happen in most countries, first world or not, west or not.
I am also pessimistic about open initiatives (open source, open data, open standards etc) as benefiters will exponentially overweight contributors, to a point contributors will sick of people eating free lunches. It may also become more and more illegal to disclose security risks and software vulnerabilities.
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#6Massive unrest due to climate change, leading to waves of mass immigration, humanitarian disasters, atrocities, genocide and a rise in authoritarianism.
All because of our greed.
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#7Massive unrest due to climate change, leading to waves of mass immigration, humanitarian disasters, atrocities, genocide and a rise in authoritarianism. All because of our greed.
Came to write exactly this. When we start to feel the real effects of climate change in a mass scale, our survival instinct will kick in and the world will be in a chaos. With all the weapons of mass destruction, guns and deteriorating social fabric, entropy might and probably win against our human order. Once the population numbers reduce through war and famine we could recover like the world did after ww2. Who knows.
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#8Authoritarian states win against democracies.
This is clearly the big struggle of today. Will democracies survive in the face of rising authoritarianism?
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#9The ecosystem has collapsed, humanity's last holdout - the salesforce.com trailhead Antarctica bunker is lifeless and silent, but hope is not lost - the probe holding Elon Musk's semen journeys onward to alpha proxima.
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#10No permanent human base beyond leo.