Predictions for 2037 | Future timeline
Read 17 predictions for 2037, 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 trend intelligence consulting firm that uses strategic foresight to help companies thrive from future trends in foresight. This is just one of many possible futures society may experience.
Fast forecasts for 2037
- With the proliferation of convincing artificial intelligence (AI) assistants and digital replicas of real-life individuals, people increasingly begin to form relationships and emotional attachments to AI entities. (Likelihood 90%)1
- Sensors, drones, and automated farming equipment collaborate and carry out the majority of farming operations in developed nations, leading to higher crop yields and lowering the cost of farmed goods. (Likelihood 80%)1
- Personal IDs become linked to biometrics in most developed nations, allowing citizens to travel to many international locations without passports or drivers licenses. (Likelihood 70%)1
- Mind or Consciousness uploading is perfected (Matrix style). 1
- Power and telephone lines are dismantled across developed countries due to wireless communications and energy transfer technologies. 1
- Mind/Consciousness uploading perfected (Matrix style) 1
- Global reserves of Zinc is fully mined and depleted1
Fast Forecast
- Power and telephone lines are dismantled across developed countries due to wireless communications and energy transfer technologies. 1
- Mind/Consciousness uploading perfected (Matrix style) 1
- Global reserves of Zinc is fully mined and depleted 1
- World population forecasted to reach 8,968,662,000 1
- World sales of electric vehicles reaches 17,786,667 1
- Predicted global mobile web traffic equals 500 exabytes 1
- Global Internet traffic grows to 1,310 exabytes 1
Country forecasts for 2037
Read forecasts about 2037 specific to a range of countries, including:
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Technology forecasts for 2037
Technology related predictions due to make an impact in 2037 include:
Culture forecasts for 2037
Culture related predictions due to make an impact in 2037 include:
- Universal Basic Income cures mass unemployment
- The last job creating industries: Future of Work P4
- Automated judging of criminals: Future of law P3
- How Millennials will change the world: Future of Human Population P2
- List of sci-fi crimes that will become possible by 2040: Future of crime P6
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Science forecasts for 2037
Science related predictions due to make an impact in 2037 include:
- The job-eating, economy-boosting, social impact of driverless vehicles: Future of Transportation P5
- Your future diet in bugs, in-vitro meat, and synthetic foods: Future of food P5
- The end of meat in 2035: Future of Food P2
- China, rise of a new global hegemon: Geopolitics of Climate Change
