{"id":13937,"date":"2021-12-27T18:14:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T18:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/?p=13937"},"modified":"2023-08-27T18:15:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T18:15:17","slug":"2050-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2021\/12\/27\/2050-predictions\/","title":{"rendered":"2050 predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was asked by @mold_time to make some predictions for 2050. Now, that\u2019s a wack thing to do, because 2050 basically 30 years away, and 30 years ago I was a little infant. I don\u2019t feel like I\u2019m even capable of properly imagining 30 years into the future. But here are my thoughts about the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. Almost everybody will be online.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I don\u2019t think people think through the implications of this, particularly the cultural ones. There are currently still about 3 billion people who aren\u2019t really online. We are still in the early days of the Internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. English will evolve.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a direct consequence of 1. There are billions of people who don\u2019t speak english, who will learn english as they come online, to interface with the global web. There will be many englishes. Indian english will likely be the largest bloc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3. TikTok and its descendants will help inform a global sign language.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This is already happening. Kids are growing up expecting livestream videos to be normal, dancing on video to be normal, and they will be communicating with each other across language barriers. Their hand gestures and dance moves will sync.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">4. There will be unprecedented culture wars.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Swastika: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visakanv\/status\/1414184600696287234\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/visakanv\/status\/1414184600696287234<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s going to be a big \u2013 hopefully non-violent \u2013 fight about the swastika, which has Hindu origins. The hope might be for cooler minds to prevail, but there are always people who want to fight, and they will drag everyone else with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2731 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>unfinished<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was asked by @mold_time to make some predictions for 2050. Now, that\u2019s a wack thing to do, because 2050 basically 30 years away, and 30 years ago I was a little infant. I don\u2019t feel like I\u2019m even capable of properly imagining 30 years into the future. But here&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5gxNz-3CN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13938,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13937\/revisions\/13938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}