| Safe: * Recession will happen that will affect the global economy causing at least a 30% decrease in major world stock indexes. * China will stumble in a major recession but the Communist Party will maintain power. * Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft will still be the biggest tech companies by market cap. * A new company that hasn’t been started yet will be in the top 10 tech companies by market cap. * The duopoly of cloud computing services will be AWS and Google Cloud. Nearly all Fortune 500 companies will use one or the other. * Big Tech will not be broken up because of their large value decline during recession, with focus being diverted to prop economy back up. Bold: * Breakthrough battery technology will make electric vehicles better for consumers than than their fossil fuel counterparts. * The breakthrough battery tech will allow a very affordable manned mission to Mars. * Solar will be the dominant form of energy creation in the United States. * HIV vaccine available to nearly all healthy adults. * Netflix will be bought by Disney. * DeepFake technology will be used to create an entire feature film by a major studio. * Donald Trump will win the 2020 presidential election despite being unsuccessfully tried during impeachment. * In the United States, majority of people will eat synthetic meat over animal-based meat. * San Francisco Bay Area will not be globally in the top 10 areas of funding for new technology startups. Crazy: * A state in the United States will successfully secede. * Glaciation will increase in parts of the world with their albedo effect predicted to offset most of the temperature increase from man-made climate change. * Major disease epidemic will kill at least 20 million people. Will not be noticed at first but will rapidly kill after long incubation. * Artificial general intelligence (AGI) will be achieved, accidentally. * Despite AGI, self-driving cars will not be the majority of vehicles on the road. |