1. A major earthquake / the ‘big one’ will hit California.

2. A major correction will happen in 2020, causing a larger depression than the one we saw in 2008. The corporate debt bubble will initiate the correction, with Softbank as well as other financial institutions taking a huge hit / collapsing due to risky investments relating to maximizing growth / revenue without paying attention to net income. The Canadian and Australian real estate bubbles will also burst, although these corrections may happen in 2021 rather than 2020. A new approach to setting interest rates will be assessed by the Federal Reserve in either 2021 or 2022. Cryptocurrencies will be the ‘new gold’ as the market buys crypto to try to counteract inflation in 2020 / 2021.

3. Climate change will continue causing global temperatures to rise, initiating major flooding and fires around the world, as well as adding power to newborn tropical storms. This will fuel a huge investment in renewable energy / energy storage companies and this growth will continue to accelerate by the end of the decade.

4. Full autonomous driving won’t be completely delivered, although each car will come with features which allows drivers to take a break from driving on long stretches of highway routes approved for autonomous driving. This will initiate a massive wave of layoffs of truck drivers, as companies start building branches near traffic routes approved for full autonomy and laying off workers to try to cut costs.

5. Cashier-less registers will become prominent. A security guard will stand at each exit checking and ensuring that self-checkout goes smoothly, with most stores only having one cashier on hand for anyone who needs assistance or to assist with scanning / placing items on the conveyor belt.

6. Electric cars will continue taking a large market share from regular vehicles, with Tesla playing a huge role in building the infrastructure for re-charging stations in North America.

7. Elon Musk’s starlink will start delivering satellite based internet around the world, taking major market share from existing telecom companies.

8. Advanced generalized artificial intelligence will not be completely established, although humanity will take major steps toward creating one as new approaches to tackling ‘deep’ learning start taking hold. Prolog type interpreting engines and tree based / CORELS based engines which attempt to infer rules will be built underneath neural networks, delivering more generalized functionality and creating new capabilities for automation.

9. Uber will become bankrupt within 3-5 years, losing out to Lyft / other entrants. Google will lose market share in the search space, although this will be offset by gains in the cloud computing (fueled by its quantum computing breakthroughs), self-driving, and AI/ML space. Apple and Amazon will take major hits, fueled by their lack of customer focus and a shift in maximizing shareholder value rather than focusing on the customer experience. Microsoft will take a hit during the next correction, although they’ll continue to flourish under Satya Nadella.

10. Parallel computing / Erlang will become much more popular by 2029; along with logic programming / Prolog which will accelerate in popularity starting from 2025, fueled by new breakthroughs and approaches to ML / AI.