Asklemmy

Same as it does now, just with slightly less effective money.

2033 will finally be the year of linux desktop

Not much different. Foldable phones will be widespread, American cars will be bigger, shaving machines will have more blades, natural disasters will be more common. We will go through one or two more cycles of drought/forest fires and heavy rains/floodings. We will see one or two mass migrations from India, Pakistan and Africa resulting in first climate refuge camps on the borders of EU.

The futuristic world of 2033 will be very different from our current primitive one. Humans will be seven foot tall with thumbs as long as fingers. Mars will have been fully terraformed, whilst there'll be hundreds of vast floating cities on Venus. A Dyson swarm will encircle the solar system just beyond Neptune's orbit. Humanity will communicate telepathically as one with AI. We still won't understand cats.

My guess: Electric vehicles everywhere, protests, more linux users, and portless phones will be the norm

Edit: Oh yeah privacy is dead or at least much more harder to obtain

We will likely have hit 1.5 + degrees of warming in 10 years time so our society may look quite different. It's likely that our supply chains will be disrupted by this and become more localised as rising temperatures / intensifying weather events impact our capacity to grow / distribute as much food as we do now. There may potentially be Pacific Nations that no longer exist due to sea level rise. We will likely also see the beginning of a significant climate refugee crisis that nations in the global north will struggle to respond to.

I watched a documentary about this recently. The franchise wars should be coming up soon that allows all restaurants to become Taco Bell.

The weather will probably be a lot worse

And maybe PlayStation 6

In the west and culturally, a post-boomer period will have begun. And I think there’ll be continued evaluation of what mistakes that era made especially as climate change looms as an increasingly damaging debt. In a similar vein, the relationship with capitalism and big corps is, I think, going to get messy and more polarised, in part because the mistakes we’ve made will be hard to disentangle for many.

Overall, I suspect that for many paying attention, the downfall of the west will seem more and more plausible and closer and that will create a contentious atmosphere.

The developed world will run out of charity.

We’ve spent the last 300 years essentially looting resources and labor from poorer parts of the world. And when they finally decide that enough is enough, that they want a piece of the pie, they won’t be able to get it.

Climate refugees will be killed at closely guarded border crossings. Fishing boats will be torpedoed. Encampments will be burned.

In “rich” countries, the poor will be gradually cut off. Their labor value will decrease even further, and there won’t be anything left for them. In some places, public housing and healthcare will allow them to limp on, until many are killed by the next pandemic.

The wealthy will enjoy what they have, their lives barely interrupted. The world will not look very different to them.

More climate refugees, more crop failures due to worsening climate change, more deaths due to climate change

We're definitely going to see jobs affected by ChatGPT and the like. It's an open question of "Can LLMs do things as well as humans?" across the board, but when have you seen a company turn down a deal like "slightly shittier, but costs pennies on the dollar and doesn't have any pesky 'rights'"?

With all the dystopian content I've been consuming lately I'd say we're heading to an age of

Mass surveilance
Regionalistic Economies in place of globalism
Widening wealth disparity
Intensified distrust of our governments

That is if the tensions in Asia Pacific don't turn into an all out conflict ( Live in PH )

Ten years is really a pretty small jump. It's not like things are wildly different today than in 2013.

Hopefully not a live action Cyberpunk 2077

0.4C warmer globally

The same as now but more dilapidated, desperate, and annoying, if you're lucky enough to not have everything changed by climate catastrophe in that time or torn apart by war

Oh, and people won't hang out outside much in most places for much of the year, we'll all collectively shelter indoors, as discomfort from heat becomes common and people start adapting to constant dangerous heatwaves

I don't think I can give a better or more creative answer than what's already here.

But I can assure you, people in ten years will come back to this thread to see how the predictions fared.