Submitted by lughnasadh t3_zl5hmi in Futurology
hack-man t1_j0dr507 wrote
Hack-Man's 2023 predictions:
- There will be a death in space, causing all nations/companies to double their safety measures and delay further manned launches (China and Russia will be the only entities to launch humans for the rest of the year)
- Waymo will slowly expand SDV service; no other company will come close
- There will be 1 or 2 SDV deaths in 2023 (1 from a citizen driving a Tesla in self-driving mode; if a 2nd, it will not be Tesla or Waymo)
- Consumers will increasingly demand more privacy
- LastPass will announce another data breech (their 3rd in the last few years)
- The US House of Representatives will keep any positive legislature from becoming law
- China will relax CRISPR restrictions, sparking a global outrage
- Third world nations in Africa will start to get a much higher standard of living thanks to cheap/free satellite internet
- Hulu will either declare bankruptcy or get bought out, as consumers gravitate towards Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, YoutubeTV, HBO+, and one new entry into the video streaming market
- One of the major grocery chains (Kroger, SuperValu, Ahold Delhaize, Albertsons) will either declare bankruptcy or get bought out, as consumers gravitate further towards online grocery delivery
- We will see a lot more walls, mirrors, windows with paper-thin OLED display tech surfaces, many with touch capability
- Mice will live longer (since longevity studies won't be done on humans yet)
- Biometric data will power more wearables
- No Next-Gen nuclear reactors will be built (or even in the planning stages) in the US
- 5% to 10% increase in battery efficiency will spark rise in solar power installation
- Work will restart on the Jeddah Tower; it won't be completed in 2023 but will nonetheless pass Burj Khalifa as the tallest man-made structure before the end of the year
- No substantial breakthroughs in Brain Machine Interface in 2023
- Nano-medicine to treat chronic illnesses
- By December, 10% of fast food "meat" sales will be veggie
- Clean Meat will drop in price, but not enough to the point where it is widely available in most grocery stores or restaurants
- Apolong driverless buses will be in regular use in China
- Google's Quantum Computer will pass a milestone where fewer people will doubt it
- GPT-4 will be jaw-dropping
- 2 dead musicians will release "new" songs (written by AI, based on their past library of work)
- Google Home will start selling a Google Assistant that follows you from room to room
- Tech companies (mostly Amazon, Apple, and Google) will expand and buy up medical data companies
- Meta will spin off one or more of: Facebook, WhatsApp, Instrgram, Oculus, Messenger
- An F5 hurricane will reach the shore of the southeast US
- California will have record-breaking wildfires
- Google will announce something huge--something that isn't on anyone's radar (i.e.: there were no /r/Futurology posts about it in 2022)
- More than 1,000 homes will be 3D printed
- Google will buy one or more small companies (maybe VMware from Dell) in an attempt to catch up to Amazon's AWS and Microsoft's Cloud
- A $1,000 computer will have the processing power of the human brain (not the intelligence, but the number of cycles)
AtomGalaxy t1_j210rqm wrote
Thinking about all the flight delays Southwest Airlines is experiencing right now, imagine it was 1-2 years from now and Waymo is the big hero sending a fleet of autonomous vehicles and commuter buses to replace the shorter plane flights adding slack to the system. https://www.the-sun.com/motors/6978910/crash-riddled-driverless-start-up/
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