Twenty years from now...

As they always do in two decades, things will be drastically different. For one thing I will be – if even I get there – in my early eighties and we'll all be in a kind of survival mode, with all natural resources (including foodstuff and water) heavily taxed, as they should have been long ago. Everything will have become much more efficient, from transportation to housing, and obviously to communications. Good service will have become very, very expensive and so will have living as a whole. There will be over 8 billion people on the planet and we'll need to make huge accommodations for that.

Everything that is produced whether it's goods or most “transmissible” services will be done globally. What used to be called “developed nations” at the beginning of the century will be earning far less than they used to a quarter of a century before. Conversely, the rest of the world and some nations will be doing a little bit better, but too many countries will still be “left behind,” constantly stressing the geopolitical climate. Climate will have changed drastically beyond hope to ever be reversed, and society will have become a little bit more aware of its fragile livelihood and survival. Will humanity be happier than today? Yes, because it would have discover that things could gotten much worst... This is my forecast; what's yours?