- China's chip industry will be fully caught up to the U.S.'s, Intel chips will still be the best, but only by a few percentage points and won't be economical at a large scale.
- Building custom ASICs will be far more common, and will be an important way of improving performance, as well as differentiation in the market (e.g., Adobe will produce their Photoshop chip).
- AI will get very good at analyzing PDFs and HTML tables. There will be apps that you can give access to your email that will be able to make very detailed itemized reports of your spending habits, and make recommendations on how to save money or get more for it.
- Dominant forms of trust will form on the internet. I am inclined to think that traditional media will take up this role, but it's possible that others will fill this space too.
- Even though humans will not go to Mars in 10 years, there will be a credible plan to put humans there (possibly taking another 10 years).
- Probes to Titan will be launched, and credible plans to land something on the moon will be well underway.
- Genomics in criminal law continues it's rapid growth, making unsolved rape cases a thing of the past.
- China's rapid growth in creating patents starts causing internal issues; they face their own first internal patent war, causing significant internal economic issues, forcing them to re-evaluate the value they ascribe to patents.
- China's chip industry will be fully caught up to the U.S.'s, Intel chips will still be the best, but only by a few percentage points and won't be economical at a large scale.
- Building custom ASICs will be far more common, and will be an important way of improving performance, as well as differentiation in the market (e.g., Adobe will produce their Photoshop chip).
- AI will get very good at analyzing PDFs and HTML tables. There will be apps that you can give access to your email that will be able to make very detailed itemized reports of your spending habits, and make recommendations on how to save money or get more for it.
- Dominant forms of trust will form on the internet. I am inclined to think that traditional media will take up this role, but it's possible that others will fill this space too.
- Even though humans will not go to Mars in 10 years, there will be a credible plan to put humans there (possibly taking another 10 years).
- Probes to Titan will be launched, and credible plans to land something on the moon will be well underway.
- Genomics in criminal law continues it's rapid growth, making unsolved rape cases a thing of the past.
- China's rapid growth in creating patents starts causing internal issues; they face their own first internal patent war, causing significant internal economic issues, forcing them to re-evaluate the value they ascribe to patents.