- Remote work will become the norm (especially in software engineering), along with contracting/freelancing (the "gig economy"). Subletting (eg. on AirBnB) will become the norm as the younger generation shuns home ownership and even 1 year rental contracts in favor of short-term and month-to-month. Being a "digital nomad" will become more mainstream as the young escape the corporate rat race and overpriced overcongested cities for greener pastures. Digital nomads will further flock to all the remaining cheap cost of living cities/countries just like they've already done to places like Bali.
- "No-code" tools will become the norm for app development. Developers won't be hand-coding much HTML/CSS anymore, WYSIWYG editors will have evolved to a point where they are acceptable and standard practice.
- Most web application development will be done with dead simple full-stack Javascript frameworks that automate all the repetitive CRUD operations (eg. in the spirit of feathersjs or meteorjs). No more separate frontend state management systems like Redux, state management will automatically integrate with and fetch from the backend (eg. like apollo GraphQL, but simpler to use). No more wrestling with 100 different JS libraries, webpack configs, routers, state management libraries, etc to set up a basic hello world website - frameworks with the simplicity of something like Next.js will be the standard.
- Politically the hot topic of the decade will be wealth inequality. Universal Basic Income will be implemented in some countries, and maybe some form of a job guarantee. The U.S. will finally get universal healthcare, partial cancellation of student loan debt, and other progressive policies as wealth inequality and the anger of poor people reaches its tipping point and the older generation holding back progressive policies retire from politics and die out. Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) will become more mainstream as people realize that debt denominated in one's own currency is not the same thing as household debt. Land value tax and Georgism will enter the debate.
- Self-driving trucks and cars will be normal
- Drone delivery will be normal
- AI passes the Turing Test
- We'll see an increasing movement against materialism, unfettered capitalism, "flex culture", and competition, and more of a movement towards cooperation, empathy, compassion, solving poverty, and living a life of meaning. Tech millionaires in San Francisco will finally think "ok what the hell has this city become? Why are there homeless people and human feces everywhere? Time to clean this damn place up." Right now being rich is considered cool even if you're an airhead who only films stupid vlogs flexing your Gucci merch. In 2030, people will care less about how much money you have and more about what you're actually contributing to humanity.
- "No-code" tools will become the norm for app development. Developers won't be hand-coding much HTML/CSS anymore, WYSIWYG editors will have evolved to a point where they are acceptable and standard practice.
- Most web application development will be done with dead simple full-stack Javascript frameworks that automate all the repetitive CRUD operations (eg. in the spirit of feathersjs or meteorjs). No more separate frontend state management systems like Redux, state management will automatically integrate with and fetch from the backend (eg. like apollo GraphQL, but simpler to use). No more wrestling with 100 different JS libraries, webpack configs, routers, state management libraries, etc to set up a basic hello world website - frameworks with the simplicity of something like Next.js will be the standard.
- Politically the hot topic of the decade will be wealth inequality. Universal Basic Income will be implemented in some countries, and maybe some form of a job guarantee. The U.S. will finally get universal healthcare, partial cancellation of student loan debt, and other progressive policies as wealth inequality and the anger of poor people reaches its tipping point and the older generation holding back progressive policies retire from politics and die out. Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) will become more mainstream as people realize that debt denominated in one's own currency is not the same thing as household debt. Land value tax and Georgism will enter the debate.
- Self-driving trucks and cars will be normal
- Drone delivery will be normal
- AI passes the Turing Test
- We'll see an increasing movement against materialism, unfettered capitalism, "flex culture", and competition, and more of a movement towards cooperation, empathy, compassion, solving poverty, and living a life of meaning. Tech millionaires in San Francisco will finally think "ok what the hell has this city become? Why are there homeless people and human feces everywhere? Time to clean this damn place up." Right now being rich is considered cool even if you're an airhead who only films stupid vlogs flexing your Gucci merch. In 2030, people will care less about how much money you have and more about what you're actually contributing to humanity.