| * 32-bit will still not die. Even in 2038 there will still be 32-bit CPUs chugging away happily - blissfully unaware of 2038-01-19T03:14. * Donald Trump will have finished his second term. The Americans will be none the wiser and will choose an even worse candidate. * Self-driving cars have taken over all traffic that has fixed routes in the Western world (e.g busses and trucks). * The number of people who care about privacy will reach critical mass, so privacy focused products like Librem 5 will actually have a market. * Lab grown meat will be cheap enough to be served as a curiosity (50 USD/kg), but still too expensive for daily use. * USB-C will be _the_ dominant connector: We will wonder why we had so many different power supplies. HDMI, VGA, FireWire, eSATA, USB-A+B, 3.5mm jack will only be used by aficionados. * Drone delivery will be a thing in select areas in OECD, but not world wide. * A cell phone can fit in your watch and communicate with something similar to Google Glasses, which also has sound. No need to lug around with a huge matchbox. * Toilets that analyse your stool will be a thing. It will be used in hospitals, and by rich health fanatics. * Fields only touched by robots will be harvested - not as an experiment but as production. * Lots of people will be unemployable due to AI and automation. The rich will claim "They are just lazy." They poor will not be desperate enough to start a revolution. * RISC V or similar open source architecture will have taken the place ARM has today, and will be eating into the lower end of Intel's portfolio. * Another economic bubble bursts the size of 2008. Nothing was learned from 2008, and the rich will get richer, the poor will pay. * Chatbot passes the Turing test. * Muzak will be written by AI and will be good enough. Similar to thispersondoesnotexist.com which is good enough for many purposes. * IPv4 will still be the dominant IP version. * Buffer overflows will still be a thing. * Quantum computers still can not break 1024-bit RSA, but it is getting so close that no one considers RSA secure at any keylength. * Moore's law is over. If you need more power parallelize your problem and use many servers. Cores will be cheaper, though. |