1. Electric cars will go from niche for the rich to something for everyone.
2. Genetic testing will become even more commonplace and even more useful.
3. ipv6 will become dominant, but there may be holdouts.
4. Freezing your sperm / eggs / stem cells will become something everyone does.
5. Using a non-memory-safe language for servers will be seen as building SQL queries with string concatenation.
6. Self driving cars are currently only very narrowly available: I think it's like 1-3 cities with good climate (https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/9/21000085/waymo-fully-driv...) They will be more available than they are now, and it will have effects on the economy.
7. Containerization is adopted by companies that are a bit behind the curve.
8. Parallelism will keep becoming more important.
Other predictions, less certain:
1. Political polarization increases in the west.
2. There will be startups taking a crack at the real estate market. They will attack cost of construction by using robots and standardized components. They will attack land cost by artificially engineering the network effects that gives land value.
3. Use of force in the form of sanctions against countries that release too much CO2
4. A significant minority skewing intelligent leave facestagram and twitter for decentralized platforms, but the majority of users stay on centralized platforms.