The most striking thing about the thread is how little of current importance was even mentioned:

- Bitcoin would become the decade's best investment by far

- the President of the US would conduct foreign policy through Twitter

- electric scooters would become a billion dollar business (Bird, Lime, etc.)

- the sharing economy would threaten the taxi and hotel industries (AirBNB and Uber)

- escalation of school shootings

- the explosive growth of quantitative easing

- negative nominal interest rates on sovereign debt

- revelations of mass surveillance by the US government

- streaming video services would begin to produce content rivaling major studios in quality

- Amazon would become the everything company

- DNA testing would become a major recreational activity with numerous judicial and social implications

- the US would approach energy independence, driven largely by a boom in oil extraction technologies

Also interesting to consider how all of these ideas would have seemed more or less ludicrous in 2010.