• null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    22 hours ago

    I guess the only way to answer that is to ask what things were like 10 years ago and where they are now and then project that another 10 years forward.

    Misinformation will be worse and people will be dumber. It will be a “choose your own reality” type situation where any claim can be opposed with a mountain of manufactured evidence. Institutions like Wikipedia and public broadcasters and the internet archive will be hollowed out and corrupted.

    Financial mobility will be nil. If you don’t get support from your parents then you’re basically slave class. Work an awful job your entire life in order to not starve when you’re too old to continue working. Wealth will be a lot more concentrated and classes will be more ingrained between the haves and the have-nots. A lot of medical interventions like growing new organs will be available to the haves but permanently out of reach for the have-nots.

    Climate Change will have progressed much faster than we predicted (that’s what’s been happening). Mass extinctions and climate change starting to make critical food sources (like fisheries) unstable. Bullshit weather events like drought and flood making broad acre farming unstable. Plastic.

    There are some positives. Advances in medicine, progress towards net zero carbon emissions, DJT probably being dead.