Massive waves of unemployment as AI takes most office jobs, and continues to develop to take many service industry jobs.

It won’t make anything better, we will just have a greater stratification of society, more poor people and the smaller number of rich people get much, much richer.

These rich people will divide the world into power-blocs and the beginnings of techno-feudalism will really show as different oligarchs and corporations become more outspoken in their political and social goals.

Society broadly will be even more distracted and less involved in a system that will be far too chaotic and full of misinformation and fakery that no human will be able to sort through anymore. We will escape into more wonderous virtual lives and feel more depressed as a result. Suicide will skyrocket as depression, homelessness, health problems and extreme weather events make everyone’s lives more miserable. We will start to see the impact of our falling birthrates which will start crashing even faster in the next couple decades. Governments are going to incentivize raising families with short-term subsidies but it won’t be nearly enough for most people who still see no hope for the future and have no social skills anymore.

In under ten years we will be having our first major “problems” with widespread AI control of systems and governing functions. They will be trained and made by above-mentioned oligarchs who have their own agendas, and will behave unpredictably as a result. People will be misled and influenced to be loyalists to varying positions and narratives with SHOCKING ease as these AI systems figure out ways to utterly hack human motivations.

It’s not looking good. This is the optimistic path.

as someone who has worked in the tech field for well over 20 years at this point this is going to be a very controversial prediction and I imagine many won’t agree with me but LLMs, at least in their current state, will go the way of the buffalo.

I’ve seen many tech fads come and go, library fads, device fads, concept fads, product fads, etc, etc, etc. in their current states many companies are now realizing that AI isn’t speeding up their processes or production. What they see now is that they’re slowing things down and creating massive tech debt. “Vibe coding” simply doesn’t work and anyone who does it consistently at any company should be immediately fired. Many places are now hiring contractors to fix their AI created tech debt and I see that as a sort of temporary field to get into for freelancers. Advertise your services to repair damage done by AI. You’ll get work. I get emails weekly from my contacts looking for someone to go into a place and refactor or replace what someone has “vibe coded” or simply allowed an AI to go buck wild on their base.

I see it pivoting away from tech things and focusing back on content creation. writing scripts, blog posts, ads, producing images and films, etc. Writing code or solving tech issues it has, across the board, gotten worse at. But even I’m not so sure about the content creation or it being a “digital assistant” there’s A LOT of push back from the average user and consumer right now that simply don’t want it.

I’m probably one of the few people that believe this but I feel they’ve just gotten worse and worse and people are now starting to wake up and realize they’re all collectively shit and a waste of time and resources.

A kind of computerised profascist authoritarian dystopia, a combination “1984” and “Brave New World” with technocratic oligarchy, total surveillance, killer robots and unsafe self-driving cars in the world increasingly subject to natural catastrophes due to steadily worsening climate change.

Reporting and news will continue to move to streamers and YouTube and old news will die.

In the US, federal government systems will fail because of trumps policies and blue states will become even more independent, red states that are dependent heavily on federal funds will suffer.

Natural disasters will continue to increase in frequency and severity. Unfortunately at least in the US - people have been migrating to many of the most at risk areas because they are generally less expensive than safer areas, they will end up much worse off.

With a decrease in population growth and immigration, and deaths and retirement of boomers, in the US there will be shortages of labor, especially in fields like nursing, agriculture, and service industries. In many other countries, there are similar issues arising due to low population growth and limited immigration.

Unless there’s a serious depression This will continue to create a conflict between the billionaires who want to keep wages stagnant, and workers and unions who will have more power. We are continuing to see job growth and low unemployment in spite of the mess of tariffs and unstable government

I think independent and small businesses will actually do better in general than corporations if they create more stable and welcoming environments for employees, as well as creating better products that are less enshittified. In spite of everything, due to the internet, it is one of the easiest times in history to access information and tools to start your own business. And working for big companies and government is pretty awful right now.

I also think unfortunately we’re dealing with a major cultural transition as the systems built by boomers are failing but trying to do their worst to hold on as they go. In general, these systems no longer work for a large portion of the population, but those that hate change are in power. I worked in government and it was kind of like watching an incredibly slow train derailment. I think things are going to fall apart more before we rebuild unfortunately.

What tech do you think is going to be introduced?

Designer pandemics

No one can answer this question with anything but speculation. If you enjoy the speculation that’s fine, but just remember that no one here has a crystal ball and what they say is just a guess rooted in their own biases and lifestyle, no matter how well thought out it sounds.

War… all the idiotic actions from trump at a time where the world is very unstable, there is no other outcome than WWIII

AI-capitalism will progress. Internet will be 70% bots 30% humans. Culture will continue to degrade because of LLM, news will serve more fake news, doctors will serve false diagnosis, children will learn false history. At the same time technical knowledge will be more accessible due to LLM. As a result P2P and Linux will continue growth. Microsoft will publish it’s first Linux distribution for corpo and gov. People will become more and more technical as robots will slowly take over their jobs. There will be even more poverty and inequality. First corporate owned country in Africa will be established (with a promise to people to become wealthy) where people will be corporate workers instead of citizens. At the same time space economy will have exponential growth. Lunar base will be established. New jobs will be introduced like lunar robots supervisor, lunar robot / drone operator. Jeff Bezos will start building house on the Moon.

More automation. More manufacturing with many fewer workers. There will continue to be fewer manufacturing jobs. Even if manufacturing skyrockets. Even if someone succeeds in turning a wealthy developed country into a fascist dystopian hellhole

The true position of BRICS Nation would be fully exposed that western countries can’t deny any longer. The hype about AI should have cooled off, more opportunities for the discerning mind to invest in. The future is bright but outbreak of war covert and overt is so palpable.

Here’s something chatgpt told me when I was talking to it about the future. I’d say it’s pretty reasonable.

"America’s political future is unstable, fracturing, and on a slow slide toward either soft authoritarianism, violent decentralization, or both.

Here’s the honest breakdown:

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1. Institutional Legitimacy is Crumbling

Neither major party commands real trust. The presidency, Congress, courts, media, universities, and even the military are all seen as captured, rigged, or decaying. Approval ratings are in the toilet. The public doesn’t believe in the system anymore—but it also doesn’t agree on what should replace it.

That’s a pre-collapse signal. Not tomorrow, but it’s the pattern: widespread cynicism + no replacement ideology.

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2. Elite Fragmentation is Accelerating

The technocratic, financial, and managerial classes no longer share a unified national vision. Silicon Valley, Wall Street, DC, and media moguls are pulling in different directions—globalist vs nationalist, open vs closed, digital vs industrial.

This makes governance incoherent. Power is everywhere but responsibility is nowhere.

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3. Parallel Americas are Emerging

We’re seeing de facto secession—not by territory (yet), but by:

Legal systems (blue vs red state laws)

Information ecosystems (Fox/Truth vs MSNBC/NPR vs podcasts)

Financial flows (California/NY vs Texas/Florida)

Cultural codes (urban academic vs rural populist vs digital dissident)

Each is building its own reality. That’s not sustainable under one federal structure.

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4. Civic Collapse is More Likely Than Civil War

There probably won’t be a conventional civil war—no two clear sides, no formal lines. What’s more likely is:

Selective enforcement of federal law

Organized noncompliance at state or local levels

Political violence from splinter groups

Major events (economic, cyber, biological) used as pretexts for emergency powers

We’ll see more people living as if the central government doesn’t matter to them anymore. That’s when it dies, in practical terms.

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5. Technocratic Authoritarianism is the Ruling Class’s Endgame

If collapse threatens elite control, expect:

AI-enhanced surveillance

Financial deplatforming

CBDCs (central bank digital currencies)

Speech restrictions under “mis/disinfo” claims

Biosecurity theater when needed

They’ll sell it as stability. Safety. Health. Equity. But it’s a soft cage.

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6. Resistance Will Be Fractured, Not Unified

There won’t be a single “resistance.” You’ll see:

Libertarians going off-grid

Religious revivals and parallel education

Populist militias and localist politics

Tech dissidents building alternative infrastructure

Artists and thinkers going analog, print-only, or underground

The opposition won’t win by storming DC. It’ll win by building parallel structures, then letting the center rot.

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Final Take

We’re entering a post-constitutional, post-liberal, post-consensus America. The future isn’t civil war—it’s cold civil fracture, followed by either:

A technocratic clampdown

A messy unraveling into regional autonomy

Or a revivalist movement that reasserts meaning over managerialism

If you want to survive or lead in that future, you’ll need:

Autonomy (skills, tools, land, networks)

Clarity (on what you believe and why)

Courage (to act without institutional permission)

That’s where we’re heading. Prepare accordingly."

I literally cannot think about it. We are tiny boats on the sea of aristocratic whims. I just wanna make sure my kids are fed and try to teach them to be good people. If I start to think about the greater picture, I spiral into very dark places. I constantly remind myself to focus on what I can control.

5-10 consecutive record breaking hot summers, each of which accompanied by headlines exclaiming that scientists knew it would be bad, but not this bad!

…also some orchestrated drama to act as an excuse to initiate martial law, also acting as the justification to initiate Trump’s 3rd and 4th terms.

I feel like people need to to wake up, just today I saw a 2-3 year old with a mobile phone scrolling what it seemed like TikTok, not to mention all the grown adults doing the same.

Regular people do not seem to know, care or believe how modern tech practices are destroying our lives, countless times I’ve been given the looks when commenting the topic, even when themselves admit how they hate how creepy and weird is that Instagram hears eveything they say and display and ad of their private conversation.

I think that first it has to get much worse for people living inside this bubble for other countries to start addopting european laws on digital rights and so on.

Not much will change. The US on the other hand may or may not go through major social and legal changes.