culture predictions for 2029 | Future timeline
Read cultural predictions for 2029, a year that will see cultural changes and events transform the world as we know it—we explore many of these changes below.
Quantumrun Foresight prepared this list; A futurist consulting firm that uses strategic foresight to help companies thrive from future trends. This is just one of many possible futures society may experience.
culture forecasts for 2029
- Immersive technologies for video viewing at home (like augmented reality and virtual reality headsets, and haptic clothes and chairs) are now cheap, mass-market devices owned by the majority of consumers in the developed world. These devices drastically impact movie theater businesses, content streaming services, and videogame production companies. (Likelihood 90%)1
- Robotic sex partners become a commonplace. 1
- Robotic sex partners become a commonplace 1
Forecast
In 2029, a number of culture breakthroughs and trends will become available to the public, for example:
- Between 2025 to 2030, the Chinese government will invests in a nationwide promotional campaign and range of subsidies and reforms to address the growing dissatisfaction among younger generations (born in the 1980s and 90s) who are experiencing alienation caused by factors such as a lack of social mobility, sky rocketing house prices, and the difficulty of finding a spouse. This is an effort to promote social harmony. Likelihood: 60% 1
- Robotic sex partners become a commonplace 1
- World population forecasted to reach 8,430,712,000 1
Prediction
Culture related predictions due to make an impact in 2029 include:
- Cybercrime’s future and impending demise: Future of crime P2
- AI police crush the cyber underworld: Future of policing P3
- Automated policing within the surveillance state: Future of policing P2
- Reengineering sentencing, incarceration, and rehabilitation: Future of law P4
- Trends that will reshape the modern law firm: Future of law P1
- Infrastructure 3.0, rebuilding tomorrow’s megacities: Future of Cities P6
- How driverless cars will reshape tomorrow’s megacities: Future of Cities P4
- Real vs. digital in tomorrow’s blended schools: Future of education P4
- Future of teaching: Future of education P3
- How Generation X will change the world: Future of Human Population P1
- The last job creating industries: Future of Work P4
- Jobs that will survive automation: Future of Work P3
- Death of the full-time job: Future of Work P2
- Density tax to replace property tax and end congestion: Future of Cities P5
- United States vs. Mexico: Geopolitics of Climate Change