most of these are much too optimistic to actually be realistic. for example north korea will never be seen as a normal country by westerners. for that to happen the west as we know it would cease to exist, and there’s no reason to hope for that any time soon

Wouldn’t that be Iraq 3?

Neo-luddism is definitely going to take off, but it’s going to swing hard into reactionary protectionism like 19th century France. It will be derailed by hippie shit and craft market kitsch unless it’s very intentionally tied to eco-socialist degrowth. It’s Solar Punk Chobani Advertisement or Eternal Etsy Dropshipping with 2000s Hipster Aesthetics: which way western man?

Nothing ever happens high rollers club.

Iraq 2

Uhhhhhh

US is already in a soft recession, natural/climate disaster is a given, China is already making inroads in soft power as of 2025 (REDnote explosion in early 2025, “I’m in a very Chinese time of my life” is a dumb meme but demonstrates that people are becoming a lot less hostile to China), AI agent does something unexpected is very vague, idk what “another deepseek moment” means. Of the ones that aren’t a given, I think a social media exodus is actually very likely. I’ve seen a lot of pushback on social media and a big push to touch grass. It might not be an organized thing, but rather people quietly logging off.

The most unlikely is AR glasses becoming good. They will always be for dorks

I love it

Do you by chance have a non-brainrot version too?

Having climate disaster as a second free space is cheating

I’ve had something similar in my downloads for a while, dont remember where I picked it up though

I too like losing bingo