What fantastic new changes do you envision for the next 30 years?

The first commercial fusion reactor.
A manned Mars Mission.
A first working prototype of NASA’S warp drive project.
A quantum computing powered artificial intelligence.
The collapse of the colonies into a jumbled mess of christian theocratic dictatorships.

I see tremendous medical breakthroughs and I actually see costs going down after first going sky high. “wearable” tech will be a fad but later come back. GMO’s will be a mixed bag of benefit and detriment. Cars will eventually be electric or compressed air and they’ll be more for local transportation. We’ll see rail comeback for the long distance stuff. On the whole technology will start to take a back seat as people loose the electronic media connections and start to connect with nature and community more. The economy will drive this ultimately because there cannot be perpetual growth. People will be healthier on average and will have the luxury of developing themselves more. Religion will take a back seat also but will still pop up and be sort of a fad every now and then. People will start to find a sort spirituality with the universe but it will be more personal and esoteric than structured and wide-spread. Tech will get cheap and it will not be the center of our lives but will supplement them. Climate change will happen but not dramatically and it will be a mixed bag also but we’ll persevere. McMansions will disappear and smaller more agrarian-ish homes with large gardens and severed ties with utilities will be more and more common. The internet will fragment into several different entities mostly as a result of the providers taking it over and clever people finding ways around them. We will see a return of the “Flynn effect” as each generation becomes more and more healthy. Crime will go down but not completely disappear. We’ll all look similar because the whole world is a melting pot now and in a few generations we’ll all be mixed up, and healthier for doing so. The oligarchs will still be around but will become increasingly irrelevant as we settle into a state of equilibrium and personal wealth takes a back seat to personal development. It’s going to be positive in the long run but will suck in the near future.

Nothing big. If you look back to 30 or 40 years ago and see what they predicted, most of it didn’t come true. The future will more or less be the same as the present.

Edit—I’m thinking like in a 100 years not 30. The next 30 are going to be sort of a controlled crash.

Everything we use will have touch screens.

Replacement livers and kidneys created in a lab.

We’ll be running out of some important resources. Water, energy, land, etc.

The rich will focus on protecting their interests and creating a chasm in society. Especially in the US, whole areas will fall into anarchy.

Religious fanatism will continue to flourish, especially under the underprivileged.

The US government will fall

Nowt, just variations on an existing theme.

My name and phone number being removed from contact lists all over the world…except the ones in Nigeria.

US defence spending cut back to 8 trillion dollars per year.