Comment by MrT735 on 25/01/2025 at 13:29 UTC*

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View submission: xkcd 887 - "Future Timeline" absolutely nailed last point of 2025

A few highlights for the next few years by doing the same search today (bear in mind this will have a heavy UK bias due to my location):

2026:

• Self-driving cars to be legal in UK.
• 25% of UK driving tests due to be with automatic gearboxes.
• 90% of online content will be AI-generated.
• 20% of organisations will replace half of their middle management with AI.

2027:

• Mobile app usage to fall by 25%, replaced by AI assistants.
• Artemis III crew lands on Moon.
• Chandigarh (India) to reach 70% electric vehicles (by new registrations).
• Global greetings card market to reach US$13.4 billion.
• Woolly mammoth clone born.

2028: (too much noise with the next US election and LA olympics)

• 20% of UK population to be over 65.

2029:

• Asteroid 99942 "Apophis" makes close pass to Earth, only 19,900 miles from the surface.
• UK prison population to increase by between 10 and 20 thousand (there's already an early-release scheme ongoing because of overcrowding). Current population (Dec 24) 86,000.
• 5G coverage in Africa to reach 25% (1.4% in 2024).

2030:

• Most results are aspirational climate change targets, nothing really stands out.

There's also a lot of out-of-date predictions coming up in search results, plus stuff from random would-be futurists with no grounding in reality. So I'll throw one more in there, 2030: Dead internet theory confirmed.

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