VR will become mainstream just like computers and internet. This will effect entertainment and art, just like what internet did to the earlier media. Web will not be relevant anymore. While the previous decades have given us djs, youtube and movies – interactive art, creative programming, interactive fiction will be host to the next era’s Da Vincis. Deepfakes will be used in creative ways with old media.

It seems we are already evolving to a new man-machine hybrid and techno spirituality. Journalism, Politics, Economics will be more data driven. Can radical transparency solve the ills of capitalism and government ?

Education will be dead as we know it. Remote education will be used to scale to a large number of students. Will we do away with the outdated copyright models and free knowledge ?

Remote work will be more mainstream.

Engineering will become more open, radical and small – IOT, 3D Printing, Open Hardware but also more dangerous. Bioengineering, geological engineering and clean technology will be the next frontiers.

Drones will change a lot of things, including war and agriculture. Warehouse robots, assistance robots, remote controlled robots will be a thing.

Will natural language interfaces and visual coding be the next paradigm shifts in programming ? This decade wasm will become mainstream.