Predictions for 2025 | Future timeline
Read 12 predictions for 2025, 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.
Fast forecasts for 2025
- 30% of corporate audits will be performed by artificial intelligence. 1
- Globally, more trips will be made using car sharing programs than privately owned cars 1
- Norway bans new sales of gas-powered cars, giving preference to electric cars. 1
- Microsoft ends support of Windows 10. 1
- Prescription drugs can be brewed at home 1
- Brain-reading devices allows wearers to learn new skills quicker 1
- Smart kitchens that turn cooking into an interactive experience enter the marketplace 1
- Electronic devices can be charged using Wi-Fi 1
- Blood test detecting any virus you have had becomes widespread 1
- Severe food allergies become treatable 1
- Male contraceptive pills become widely available 1
- Africa's Green Wall of drought-resistant trees restricts land degredation is completed 1
- Hepatitis C is eradicated 1
- Drone usage in agriculture is adopted globally 1
- Automated construction crews meant to replace human workers begin trails in locations worldwide 1
- U.S. military uses electricity to stimulate soldiers' brains, increase reaction times and improve attention spans 1
- Bioengineered skin grafts replicates real skin becomes widely available 1
- Robotic, mind-controlled prosthetics become widely available. 1,2
- New device diagnoses pancreatic cancer earlier and faster 1
- Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) will become the leading cause of liver transplants 1
- Cost of solar panels, per watt, equals 0.8 US dollars 1
- Global reserves of Nickel is fully mined and depleted 1
- Dubai's "Dubailand" is fully built 1
- Abu Dhabi "Masdar City" is fully built 1
- World population forecasted to reach 8,141,661,000 1
- Share of global car sales taken by autonomous vehicles equals 10 per cent 1
- World sales of electric vehicles reaches 9,866,667 1
- Average number of connected devices, per person, is 9.5 1
- Global number of Internet connected devices reaches 76,760,000,000 1
- Predicted global mobile web traffic equals 104 exabytes 1
- Global Internet traffic grows to 398 exabytes 1
- Worst case forecasted rise in global temperatures, above pre-industrial levels, is 2 degrees Celsius 1
- Forecasted rise in global temperatures, above pre-industrial levels, is 1.5 degrees Celsius 1
- Optimistic forecasted rise in global temperatures, above pre-industrial levels, is 1.19 degrees Celsius 1
Country forecasts for 2025
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Technology forecasts for 2025
Technology related predictions due to make an impact in 2025 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
- Your addictive, magical, augmented life: Future of the Internet P6
- Housing prices crash as 3D printing and maglevs revolutionize construction: Future of Cities P3
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Business news for 2025
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Culture forecasts for 2025
Culture related predictions due to make an impact in 2025 include:
- 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
- Rise of the electric car: Future of Energy P3
- AI police crush the cyber underworld: Future of policing P3
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Science forecasts for 2025
Science related predictions due to make an impact in 2025 include:
- The rise of the transportation internet: Future of Transportation P4
- Smart vs vertical farms: Future of food P4
- Peak cheap oil triggers renewable era: Future of Energy P2
- Solar energy and the rise of the energy internet: Future of Energy P4
- Renewables vs. the thorium and fusion energy wildcards: Future of Energy P5
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Health forecasts for 2025
Health related predictions due to make an impact in 2025 include:
- Future of beauty: Future of Human Evolution P1
- Responsibility over your quantified health: Future of Health P7
- Precision healthcare taps into your genome: Future of Health P3
- Tomorrow’s pandemics and the super drugs engineered to fight them: Future of Health P2
- Healthcare nearing a revolution: Future of Health P1
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