2. ICE vehicles are quaint. New electric vehicles sold overtakes ICE vehicles sometime around 2027 - 2029.
3. Autonomous vehicles L4/L5 are still 'just around the corner'
4. Ubiquitous Gigabit wifi/cellular/sat data across most of the world.
5. Masses still don't care about privacy.
6. Not much change in top tech companies - FAANG still around and maintain their leadership in tech domains as of now for the most part.
7. Android has been replaced with Fuchsia with Fuchsia being able to run APKs built for android. Phone apps are mostly a combination of WASM apps with native UI. Most non-tech people are unaware as usual.
8. Atleast a couple of cities in the world come to the brink of disaster/or become unlivable due to climate change (most likely in India/China). At least one major war due to climate change.
9. Workloads are all massively parallelized; low end desktop cpu parts start with 32 cores.
10. WASM adoption skyrockets. In 2030, OS is almost immaterial since most of the core functionality is provided by WASM payloads; OS is only used to paint native UIs (for which there still isn't a good cross platform solution)
11. Deepfakes are ubiquitous; Audio/Video evidence is no longer accepted; A lot of companies pour money into creating verfiably unmodified video/audio - but it isn't solved yet.