Predictions for 2024 | Future timeline
Read 419 predictions for 2024, a year that will see the world transform in big and small ways; this includes disruptions throughout our culture, technology, science, health and business sectors. It’s your future, discover what you’re in for.
Quantumrun Foresight prepared this list; A futurist consulting firm that uses strategic foresight to help companies thrive from future trends.
Fast forecasts for 2024
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- The global minimum corporate tax rate of 15% takes effect. 1
- NASA launches the lunar program “Artemis" with a two-person crew spacecraft. 1
- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration launches the Psyche mission, aiming to study the unique metal-rich asteroid orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. 1
- Space Entertainment Enterprise launches a film production studio 250 miles above Earth. 1
- The first commercial hydrogen-electric flights between London and Rotterdam start operating. 1
- The European Parliament and the Council of the European Union pass and implement new asylum and migration laws. 1
- All new devices on the European Union market is required to include a USB-C charging port to reduce electronic waste, affecting Apple devices. 1
- The Digital Services Act, which ensures the safety of users online and establishes governance of the protection of fundamental digital rights, takes affect across the European Union. 1
- Since 2022, about 57% of companies globally have invested more in information communication technology, particularly among the biotechnology, retail, finance, food and beverage, and public administration sectors. 1
- COVID-19 becomes endemic like the flu or the common cold. 1
- The H2 Green Steel consortium's fossil-free plant makes its first green steel. 1
- Swedish truck maker Scania and H2 Green Steel start producing trucks with fossil-free steel before moving the entire production to green steel in 2027–2028. 1
- More than 50% of Internet traffic to homes will be from appliances and other home devices. 1
- Artificial muscles used in robots can lift more weight and generate more mechanical power than human muscles 1
- New prosthetic models convey sensations of feeling 1
- First manned mission to Mars 1
- Cost of solar panels, per watt, equals 0.9 US dollars 1
- Global reserves of Indium is fully mined and depleted 1
- Saudi Arabia's "Jubail II" is fully built 1
- World population forecasted to reach 8,067,008,000 1
- World sales of electric vehicles reaches 9,206,667 1
- Predicted global mobile web traffic equals 84 exabytes 1
- Global Internet traffic grows to 348 exabytes 1
Country forecasts for 2024
Read forecasts about 2024 specific to a range of countries, including:
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Technology forecasts for 2024
Technology related predictions due to make an impact in 2024 include:
- The big business future behind self-driving cars: Future of Transportation P2
- Rise of the big data-powered virtual assistants: Future of the Internet P3
- Your future inside the Internet of Things: Future of the Internet P4
- How the first Artificial General Intelligence will change society: Future of artificial intelligence P2
- Artificial Intelligence is tomorrow’s electricity: Future of artificial intelligence P1
Culture forecasts for 2024
Culture related predictions due to make an impact in 2024 include:
- Jobs that will survive automation: Future of Work P3
- Rise of the electric car: Future of Energy P3
- Militarize or disarm? Reforming the police for the 21st century: Future of policing P1
- Geopolitics of the unhinged web: Future of the Internet P9
- Infrastructure 3.0, rebuilding tomorrow’s megacities: Future of Cities P6
Science forecasts for 2024
Science related predictions due to make an impact in 2024 include: