Comment by neontomo

During the pandemic I made a list of predictions for the next year and when I revisited it I realised that I was expecting things to move faster than they did. I think some of them might come true eventually, but when is harder to determine.

I didn't expect AI to explode in the way it did; reading books like The Singularity Is Near and Superintelligence I was led to think that common AI tools would be self-learning and iterative systems that operate autonomously rather than prompting back and forth.

Here is the list I made in 2020:

• AI will become mature and we will interact with it as something with rights and individuality

• Stationary computers will be niche as laptops become powerful

• Music production on phones common

• Phone connection points disappear (headphones, SIM card, SD card)

• All newly built cars and some planes will be electric

• Phones will process everything in the cloud, the phone is a receiver/sender for information not a full computer, leading to cheaper/less powerful phones

• We will have clothes with digital aspects (colours, patterns, maybe textures)

• More (straight) boys will wear make up

• India will replace China as manufacturing powerhouse

• Asian culture will merge with Western, especially music

• Knowledge will be seen as more subjective and concept of privacy will disappear