What do you think is going to change? What tech do you think is going to be introduced? Is it going to be better? Is it going to be worse? Etc
The true position of BRICS Nation would be fully exposed that western countries can’t deny any longer. The hype about AI should have cooled off, more opportunities for the discerning mind to invest in. The future is bright but outbreak of war covert and overt is so palpable.
No one can answer this question with anything but speculation. If you enjoy the speculation that’s fine, but just remember that no one here has a crystal ball and what they say is just a guess rooted in their own biases and lifestyle, no matter how well thought out it sounds.
Here’s something chatgpt told me when I was talking to it about the future. I’d say it’s pretty reasonable.
"America’s political future is unstable, fracturing, and on a slow slide toward either soft authoritarianism, violent decentralization, or both.
Here’s the honest breakdown:
- Institutional Legitimacy is Crumbling
Neither major party commands real trust. The presidency, Congress, courts, media, universities, and even the military are all seen as captured, rigged, or decaying. Approval ratings are in the toilet. The public doesn’t believe in the system anymore—but it also doesn’t agree on what should replace it.
That’s a pre-collapse signal. Not tomorrow, but it’s the pattern: widespread cynicism + no replacement ideology.
- Elite Fragmentation is Accelerating
The technocratic, financial, and managerial classes no longer share a unified national vision. Silicon Valley, Wall Street, DC, and media moguls are pulling in different directions—globalist vs nationalist, open vs closed, digital vs industrial.
This makes governance incoherent. Power is everywhere but responsibility is nowhere.
- Parallel Americas are Emerging
We’re seeing de facto secession—not by territory (yet), but by:
Legal systems (blue vs red state laws)
Information ecosystems (Fox/Truth vs MSNBC/NPR vs podcasts)
Financial flows (California/NY vs Texas/Florida)
Cultural codes (urban academic vs rural populist vs digital dissident)
Each is building its own reality. That’s not sustainable under one federal structure.
- Civic Collapse is More Likely Than Civil War
There probably won’t be a conventional civil war—no two clear sides, no formal lines. What’s more likely is:
Selective enforcement of federal law
Organized noncompliance at state or local levels
Political violence from splinter groups
Major events (economic, cyber, biological) used as pretexts for emergency powers
We’ll see more people living as if the central government doesn’t matter to them anymore. That’s when it dies, in practical terms.
- Technocratic Authoritarianism is the Ruling Class’s Endgame
If collapse threatens elite control, expect:
AI-enhanced surveillance
Financial deplatforming
CBDCs (central bank digital currencies)
Speech restrictions under “mis/disinfo” claims
Biosecurity theater when needed
They’ll sell it as stability. Safety. Health. Equity. But it’s a soft cage.
- Resistance Will Be Fractured, Not Unified
There won’t be a single “resistance.” You’ll see:
Libertarians going off-grid
Religious revivals and parallel education
Populist militias and localist politics
Tech dissidents building alternative infrastructure
Artists and thinkers going analog, print-only, or underground
The opposition won’t win by storming DC. It’ll win by building parallel structures, then letting the center rot.
Final Take
We’re entering a post-constitutional, post-liberal, post-consensus America. The future isn’t civil war—it’s cold civil fracture, followed by either:
A technocratic clampdown
A messy unraveling into regional autonomy
Or a revivalist movement that reasserts meaning over managerialism
If you want to survive or lead in that future, you’ll need:
Autonomy (skills, tools, land, networks)
Clarity (on what you believe and why)
Courage (to act without institutional permission)
That’s where we’re heading. Prepare accordingly."
chatgpt is biased, generally and more so to your chat history.
Name a thing that is unbiased. It’s generally significantly less biased than humans are.
Reporting and news will continue to move to streamers and YouTube and old news will die.
In the US, federal government systems will fail because of trumps policies and blue states will become even more independent, red states that are dependent heavily on federal funds will suffer.
Natural disasters will continue to increase in frequency and severity. Unfortunately at least in the US - people have been migrating to many of the most at risk areas because they are generally less expensive than safer areas, they will end up much worse off.
With a decrease in population growth and immigration, and deaths and retirement of boomers, in the US there will be shortages of labor, especially in fields like nursing, agriculture, and service industries. In many other countries, there are similar issues arising due to low population growth and limited immigration.
Unless there’s a serious depression This will continue to create a conflict between the billionaires who want to keep wages stagnant, and workers and unions who will have more power. We are continuing to see job growth and low unemployment in spite of the mess of tariffs and unstable government
I think independent and small businesses will actually do better in general than corporations if they create more stable and welcoming environments for employees, as well as creating better products that are less enshittified. In spite of everything, due to the internet, it is one of the easiest times in history to access information and tools to start your own business. And working for big companies and government is pretty awful right now.
I also think unfortunately we’re dealing with a major cultural transition as the systems built by boomers are failing but trying to do their worst to hold on as they go. In general, these systems no longer work for a large portion of the population, but those that hate change are in power. I worked in government and it was kind of like watching an incredibly slow train derailment. I think things are going to fall apart more before we rebuild unfortunately.
as someone who has worked in the tech field for well over 20 years at this point this is going to be a very controversial prediction and I imagine many won’t agree with me but LLMs, at least in their current state, will go the way of the buffalo.
I’ve seen many tech fads come and go, library fads, device fads, concept fads, product fads, etc, etc, etc. in their current states many companies are now realizing that AI isn’t speeding up their processes or production. What they see now is that they’re slowing things down and creating massive tech debt. “Vibe coding” simply doesn’t work and anyone who does it consistently at any company should be immediately fired. Many places are now hiring contractors to fix their AI created tech debt and I see that as a sort of temporary field to get into for freelancers. Advertise your services to repair damage done by AI. You’ll get work. I get emails weekly from my contacts looking for someone to go into a place and refactor or replace what someone has “vibe coded” or simply allowed an AI to go buck wild on their base.
I see it pivoting away from tech things and focusing back on content creation. writing scripts, blog posts, ads, producing images and films, etc. Writing code or solving tech issues it has, across the board, gotten worse at. But even I’m not so sure about the content creation or it being a “digital assistant” there’s A LOT of push back from the average user and consumer right now that simply don’t want it.
I’m probably one of the few people that believe this but I feel they’ve just gotten worse and worse and people are now starting to wake up and realize they’re all collectively shit and a waste of time and resources.
War… all the idiotic actions from trump at a time where the world is very unstable, there is no other outcome than WWIII
AI-capitalism will progress. Internet will be 70% bots 30% humans. Culture will continue to degrade because of LLM, news will serve more fake news, doctors will serve false diagnosis, children will learn false history. At the same time technical knowledge will be more accessible due to LLM. As a result P2P and Linux will continue growth. Microsoft will publish it’s first Linux distribution for corpo and gov. People will become more and more technical as robots will slowly take over their jobs. There will be even more poverty and inequality. First corporate owned country in Africa will be established (with a promise to people to become wealthy) where people will be corporate workers instead of citizens. At the same time space economy will have exponential growth. Lunar base will be established. New jobs will be introduced like lunar robots supervisor, lunar robot / drone operator. Jeff Bezos will start building house on the Moon.
What tech do you think is going to be introduced?
Designer pandemics
5-10 consecutive record breaking hot summers, each of which accompanied by headlines examining that scientists knew it would be bad, but not this bad!
…also some orchestrated drama to act as an excuse to initiate martial law, also acting as the justification to initiate Trump’s 3rd and 4th terms.
You think the guy will live that long?!
Roaches never just die when we need them to. There’s the possibility that the next guy won’t miss though.
That’s bleack
These evil fuckers seem to live well into their nineties, and I hate that I just said that. .
True, I’ll grant you that.
It’s really hard to make predictions, but one thing I am certain about is that the pervasiveness of endless entertainment and distractions, in combination with the ease of outsourcing any mental effort to LLMs, will have significant effects on people’s cognitive performance. Especially for young people who have the misfortune of never knowing a world without these things.
Another thing is climate change. At least for those of us living in the west, climate change is still limited to concerning news you read, a bit more heat in the summer, and a few more natural disasters than usual. There are effects, but we’re not really affected yet. In 10 years, our lives will be significantly affected by the increasing heat and even more natural disasters. In other parts of the world, these things are already happening and they will be significantly worse in 10 years.
The problem is LLM use will become de facto standard to get by, and then the corporations that own them will cater output to drive sociopolitical change (for the worse).
Obviously, solar energy is going to continue to grow. Less obviously, this will have a pretty significant effect on global economics. Countries that previously lacked domestic energy production now will suddenly have it. Countries highly reliant on fossil fuel exports will suddenly be less important. I think this will probably be the most significant change and it’ll be for the better. Obviously global warming problems are on the horizon but over 5-10 years from now it’ll still be comparatively small.
I personally don’t see AI getting much better than it is now because it’s starting to run out of how much it can do with existing data. It’ll continue to be a useful tool for autocomplete and generating low-effort content, but otherwise won’t rearrange society or build us dyson spheres or anything like some seem to expect. I don’t see software technology doing anything especially great for a while and its role in the economy may shrink for the first time really since it started.
More speculatively, I’d guess we’ll see more advancements in DNA and RNA technology that will make medicine more resemble programming rather than throwing stuff at the body and hoping it works. This will progress slowly, but in 5-10 years I think we’ll be looking at some vaguely significant impact on common health problems. Other medical tech will be significant too - knowing someone who takes GLP-1s I think we’ve kind of missed celebrating how big a deal that is for some people.
Society as a whole - who knows, that’s especially hard to predict. I tend to be optimistic that the current reactionary period will fade, having already used up its credibility. I worry though that we’re getting better at exploiting human emotions and that can be used by the powerful to control masses. But when has that ever not been a factor? We’ve only relatively recently emerged from the era of divinely ordained kings, and mass literacy is still quite new in the grand scheme of things. Our society will continue to evolve, a bit inconsistently.
Couldn’t have said it better. I’m concerned about the next few years, but if we can get through it with a functioning society then I think this is what will happen.
I like this take, I want this one.
We can’t afford this take, we’ve already got a take at home.
5-10 years isn’t exactly that long so I don’t expect more than “more of the same, but worse.” AI will “improve,” but energy demands will not be met to compensate for their draw, consumers will be forced to pay higher electricity bills because of it.
The US will more than likely face a huge economic disruption due to Mango Mussolini. I think most things will just be more of the same though.
its serves putins interest to have us so weaken they cant manage foreign policy much, which gives russia time to recover.
Soviet style mass apartment complexes to combat homelessness but you have to download an app to get in and out, and the app collects and sells all your data. There’s a concierge who does spot checks but they accept bribes in fresh fruit, vegetables and old N64 games.
The internets. Multiple internets, like different streaming services and you need to pay a subscription to each one to access all the websites.
Rail guns. Everyone will have a rail gun. It will be awesome.
So much depends upon the rad railgun
I feel like people need to to wake up, just today I saw a 2-3 year old with a mobile phone scrolling what it seemed like TikTok, not to mention all the grown adults doing the same.
Regular people do not seem to know, care or believe how modern tech practices are destroying our lives, countless times I’ve been given the looks when commenting the topic, even when themselves admit how they hate how creepy and weird is that Instagram hears eveything they say and display and ad of their private conversation.
I think that first it has to get much worse for people living inside this bubble for other countries to start addopting european laws on digital rights and so on.
True. Yesterday I saw a gen alpha kid watching YT on his phone on one hand while he was walking his dog with the other. In an urban area with some traffic and occasional cyclists.
I literally cannot think about it. We are tiny boats on the sea of aristocratic whims. I just wanna make sure my kids are fed and try to teach them to be good people. If I start to think about the greater picture, I spiral into very dark places. I constantly remind myself to focus on what I can control.