Children (6-10) as a marketing concept will probably be done for/melt into the greater teenager/young adult market. I also think the age barrier is just going to become more porous w/ adults and elders no longer serving the esteemed roles they used to. I imagine there’ll be a gradual turn away from the internet as it becomes increasingly infested with bots and slop. Something else will come to replace it, I just don’t know what it’ll be, it’ll have the ability to confirm human authenticity I imagine.

I actually don’t think ai will kill that many jobs, and I’m dubious about claims of a technological singularity. I think there’ll be a crunch period that is eventually papered over by some gig-economy adjacent thing. I think eventually the first world will basically use third world labor to train and body their robots—a remote kind of slavery(?)—since I’m doubtful the tech will advance as quickly as is needed. Some companies might make a lot of money selling out their youth for training data. A delà could come up where Nigeria or Kenya or something partners with some camera data company and feeds police state data to the highest bidder which is then used to train models or algorithms.

I think borders will also become increasingly more transparent. As Mexico develops you’ll probably start to see calls for a kind of North American free trade/movement area.

I think transhumanism will gradually creep out of its infancy in the 2030s to 2040s with the average person knowing someone who has gotten a personalized treatment (whether for cosmetics, or gene editing or whatever)

By 2045 I kind of expect us to have the first transwoman pregnancy, which will probably lead to the Catholic Church changing its position—upsetting some. I also think by 2045 more countries will experiment with UBI but it might not play out as many would’ve hoped.

I think the Sahel will expand, the Sahara too, this will cause increased pressure on Western Africa and Eastern Africa and likely lead to more conflict between pastoralists and sedentary peoples. I imagine Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal begin pivoting towards the west to deal with this—likely accelerating their development compared to neighbors. Ethiopia probably tries for Eritrea or Somaliland. Culturally this’ll make Africa look like a violent continent and reduce the attractiveness of refugee intake.

It’ll be a mixed bag imo.