Comment by ak_111

- Tragic assassination or suicide of a major tech figure (probably prompted due to either another huge tech downturn, or victim of culture war).

- Many countries in the 3rd world that significantly depend on wheat and oil import start to feel the real pain from the Ukraine situation leading to revolutions. Probably Egypt or Jordan will be top of the list.

- Russia, China or US (probably two of them) see their leader replaced before end of 2023.

- Huge political momentum in UK to rejoin the EU as people riot in the street due to cost of living crisis. Jeremy Corbyn & Nigel Farage launch a new party (each!).

- A major bank other than Credit Suisse collapses probably due to major fraud that was hiding huge loses from market volatility that were taking place in 2022.

- India economy suffers due to covid cases increasing.

- Major discovery in astronomy lead to serious questioning of standard models in physics (similar to Michelson–Morley experiment, we have long been due one) or biology (if it is to do with aliens).

- Apple postpones launch of iPhone 15, Tim Cook announces departure date and appoints successor. Amazon spins-off AWS as a separate company. Facebook announces a complete revamp of blue app. Google sells DeepMind or merge it with Google Brain and reduces significantly AI recruitment.