Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions?
Here are mine:<p>1. Still no level 4&#x2F;5 autonomous cars anywhere in sight. The promise of being &quot;just around the corner&quot; fizzles down and people just forget the hype.<p>2. Same with AI. The panacea hype dies down. No AGI at all. No major job losses due to AI automation.<p>3. Facebook (the SN) still exists but ages along with it&#x27;s current user base. i.e it&#x27;s the &quot;old people&#x27;s&quot; SN. Facebook (the company) is still going strong, with either Instagram or one of it&#x27;s acquisitions being the current &quot;hip&quot; SN.<p>4. Google still dominates search and email but losses value and &quot;glory&quot; compared to today.<p>5. Majority of people still don&#x27;t care about privacy.<p>6. But a small yet growing culture of &quot;offliners&quot; becomes mainstream. Being offline is the new &quot;Yoga&quot; and allows bragging rights.<p>7. Increase in adoption of non-scientific beliefs such as astrology&#x2F;anti-vaxx&#x2F;religion&#x2F;flat-earth as a counterbalance to the increased complexity of everyday life.<p>8. Web development matures and a &quot;standard&quot; stack is accepted, all in JS.<p>9. Global carbon emissions are not reduced, mostly because of lack of initiative by China and 3rd world countries.<p>10. Still no hoverboards.