Electronic publishing never gets off the ground, as people realise that they prefer reading print on paper. Life expectancy gets greater, but everyone expects to retire early. Social Services and pensions have to be funded by existing workers. The system breaks down and social services reduce dramatically. Life expectancy gets greater, and everyone is forced to carry on working full time until they drop dead, or rot on tiny pensions.
Life expectancy gets greater and people keep active longer.
Life expectancy falls unexpectedly, due to new diseases, unhealthy life-styles, increasing polltion and natural disasters. The Arts continue to seek to be High Art rather than provide something that people want to see or hear. The Arts get replaced by TV, film and pop music, which only seek to cater for the lowest tastes. TV, film and pop music develop into serious art forms of their own, and mix trash with serious, even inspirational stuff.