Future | The world in 2028

My predictions based on current trends (current trends may not continue)

Tom X Hart
Sep 5, 2018 · 12 min read
  1. A serious assassination attempt, possibly successful, will be made on the life of Donald Trump.
  2. A new iteration of the web, with greater decentralisation and cryptographic potential, causes a fragmentation of communication as we know it today and speeds the break up of nations, international organisations, and large corporations.
  3. Nationalist, religious, and ethnic militias will become widespread in Europe and North America, with organisation taking place via secure and covert Internet connections.
  4. There will be a revival of pseudo-pagan religions among indigenous Europeans, and these religions will be especially popular among people with tattoos. Some will actually worship comic book characters, since these figures are basically analogous to gods.
  5. Social media will fragment even further and will create a myriad of self-reinforcing ideological networks that communicate with images and argots that are incomprehensible to anyone not embedded in the network.
  6. People will look back nostalgically to the era of “big social” when everyone could be found in one place online.
  7. A “furry” will have animal-like hair surgically implanted into his body. Radical body modification will become normal.
  8. Simultaneously, a major bout of regret will emerge among the heavily tattooed, many of whom will claim to be suffering from “tattoo-induced body dysphoria” (See, DSM-6) and sue tattoo artists.
  9. A massive backlash against pre-adult gender reassignment will be stoked by resentful children whose parents “transitioned” them too young teaming up with lawyers hungry for cash. Million-dollar settlements will become quite normal in these cases. Media outlets that encouraged the craze in the first place will question “how the tragedy happened.”
  10. A drone will down a commercial airliner, either by accident or terrorist design.
  11. Statues of Queen Victoria will be removed in the UK, condemned as remnants of imperialism and white supremacy. Buildings and institutions with her name will be renamed, and this will happen even more quickly to statues and names associated with “dead white males”.
  12. Literacy will continue to degrade. A substantial portion of the population will only communicate in “writing” using emojis. This will enhance international communication, but people will become evermore incomprehensible to each other – especially when it comes to communication between the castes of an evermore intellectually divided society.
  13. Autists will increasingly be integrated into the economy. The Israeli army is already using autistic people for intelligence roles, and this is a taste of things to come. Considerable efforts will be made to make workplaces amenable for autistic personnel, particularly in the computer industry.
  14. Consequently, a craze will develop (or be cultivated) among women for having autistic boyfriends and husbands. Articles and videos will be produced with headlines like “Dating An Autist Is Wild. Here’s Why” and “So People Are Talking About Sex With Autists…And It’s Hot!”
  15. These women, although they will marry the autists for the money and status, will cheat endlessly on the autists with alpha males. The cruelest and most sadistic women will do this in front of the autist, afterwards spiking his daily ration of “Soylent” with her lover’s sperm. This behaviour will occasionally be revealed by secret camera footage posted to YouTube, and the woman in question will be hounded out of society by a social media mob.
  16. Vegetable-based processed foods will become the only acceptable foodstuff, with veganism and vegetarianism considered normative; it will be difficult, expensive, and socially unacceptable to buy fresh meat. The obesity crisis will continue to grow in severity as people rely on carbohydrates to feed themselves.
  17. An app will be developed, called “Consentio”, that allows heterosexual couples to record that they both consent to intercourse before they start. The dual consent will be saved to a cloud server for future reference by lawyers if a rape accusation is made. Later iterations will record the entire sexual encounter.
  18. A specialised vocabulary will be developed at Harvard University to make sure people consent throughout a sexual act. The only people who use this vocabulary are the people who will, in fact, be accused of rape.
  19. A woman will become world famous for having the world’s largest buttock implants, similar to Lolo Ferrari and her enormous breasts. She will die in a painful and possibly drug-induced death on a Caribbean island resort.
  20. Britain’s security situation will collapse to the point where day-to-day life will become similar to the situation in Northern Ireland during “The Troubles” of the 1970s. Bombings, assassinations, and “disappearances” will become a routine aspect of life as nationalists, Islamists, and criminal gangs fight it out. The state, having encouraged Muslim recruitment into the armed forces and security services, will see weapons and trained personnel leak out into Islamist militia groups. Public trust in the state will collapse as the security services play various militia groups off against each other, and nobody will be sure who the state favours.
  21. Paedophilia will increasingly be presented as an unfortunate medical condition in the mass media. Paedophiles will be regarded as homosexuals were in the 1950s/1960s, i.e. people with an unfortunate medical condition who deserve pity, not disgust, from educated people. Expressing disapproval for paedophilia will be considered “bigoted” or “cruel”. In twenty years, paedophilia will be regarded in the same way as being gay was regarded in the 1990s.
  22. A member of the Davos set will write an elegiac article on the World Economic Forum’s website about “How I helped my son celebrate his inter-generational love story”. Their son will be 10, and his lover will be 38.
  23. A film will be made entitled, “This. Exactly This.”
  24. Parents will be merciless mocked by their children for using the phrases: “totes amaze”, “amazeballs”, “awesome”, “random”, and “awks”.
  25. The UK will introduce gender-segregated public transport (starting with tubes and railway carriages), offices, and schools due to pressure from the Muslim and feminist lobby. The putative reason will be “harassment by straight white men”.
  26. A politician will be elected to US Congress who is almost completely honest about their social media history, including naked selfies (possibly including dick pics). These pictures and social media posts may even be used in actual election propaganda as proof that he has a larger dick than his opponent.
  27. AI will be developed with the capacity to identify paedophiles, homosexuals, and intelligence levels from pictures, and it will do so with considerable accuracy. This technology will be widespread in China – teachers will be screened using the technology – but it will only be used secretly in the West. Major scandals will break when the tabloid media uses Chinese companies to identify paedophiles and homosexuals in senior positions in the Western bureaucracies.
  28. Internet corporations will expand their “duty of care” in the West and become much more assiduous in censoring content. It will be routine for a page to be blocked by your ISP (this already happens in corporate coffee shops in the UK). “Content Supervisor” or “Content Quality Controller” (i.e. censor) will become a common career for graduates in the humanities. Content will be evaluated using the “Virtual Emotional Stress and Harassment Matrix”
  29. Corporations will use “reverse IQ tests” to hire employees. These tests will take the form of Emotional Intelligence tests. People will be congratulated for scoring highly on Emotional Intelligence and filtered into banal and meaningless public-facing roles. People who “fail the Emotional Intelligence test” will be promoted to well paid roles that require asocial or “autistic” levels of logic and reasoning. This will be presented as a move towards social justice, although it will simply be a means to carry out IQ tests covertly.
  30. People living in Portland, Oregon will produce “artisanal pornography” that carefully reconstructs pornography from the 1970s in elaborate and “loving” detail.
  31. A public campaign of demonisation against Israel, similar to the campaign against apartheid in the 1980s, will begin in earnest. It will become a fashionable and mainstream opinion in the West, particularly European countries like France and Britain that are increasingly Muslim, to boycott “Zionist” (i.e. Jewish) shops and businesses. Mainstream leftist media, such as The Guardian, will run articles along the lines, “How to do your weekly shop without helping Zionism.”
  32. A special tax on white people – possibly a sales tax – will be introduced in the West, particularly in the US and Britain. The stated purpose will be a correction for slavery and other injustices. The money will largely be used to employ state bureaucrats, many of them white or Asian, in the collapsing welfare state bureaucracy. Reductions in the tax will be available for people in inter-racial relationships or who have adopted children from Africa.
  33. White people, particularly white males, will be barred from holding senior positions in most major corporations and government departments, particularly in the US and Britain. This will never be explicitly stated, but the change will be introduced through preferential hiring practices known as the “Equity and Diversity Pathway”.
  34. Although white people will still exist in fact, there will be an explosion in DNA tests and archival documents that prove that white people had black ancestors (unlikely celebrities, such as Nicole Kidman, will be revealed to be almost full-blooded Australian Aboriginals). Census data will show a huge drop in the “white” category in the US and UK as people change racial identity in order to ensure promotion at work.
  35. Ginger and red-headed people will be considered a formerly oppressed minority, similar to racial and sexual minorities (this is already in evidence in social justice propaganda, which will only use a white man if he is ginger or a redhead). It will become popular and high status to praise redheads in public (this has already started with my hairdresser). However, people will still be disgusted and not have sex with the ginger tribe.
  36. There will be an increase in Asian Muslim homosexuals in Europe who claim to have been raped by white homosexuals. This will coincide with a growing influence of Islam in European countries and new wave of social disapproval towards homosexuality within a strata of European society. The protection previously extended to Muslim homosexuals by the liberal state will be rolled back, and they will be forced to excuse their previous behaviour to their co-religionists – or face the consequences.
  37. The expanding field of Decolonisation Studies will “discover” that many works of literature and many scientific theories (Newton first; Einstein later) were in fact stolen by whites from black scientists, writers, and women of any race. Historical reports, Google, Wikipedia, and so on will be rewritten and adjusted to conform to this view of history. This is already happening on an ad hoc basis, with Norman Mailer’s wikiquotes page altered to claim that he was a Bangladeshi writer (until I changed it back) and recent editions of A Moveable Feast featuring cover designs that suggest Hemingway was black.
  38. Jordan Peterson will lead a revived Christian movement that integrates elements of Native American folk religion, Greek philosophy, and classical liberalism into a Christian framework. He will be assassinated, possibly by a deranged fan, and so become the first martyred saint of the new Church. Endless speculation will suggest that the CIA or Mossad was behind his assassination, and that Peterson was about to make the “final revelation”.
  39. The Democrats will select a Hispanic woman for a presidential bid.
  40. The US and Russia will have a limited war after a Democratic administration, raised on hysterical anti-Russian propaganda and believing that the US military has been subverted by “Russian-backed white supremacists”, misunderstands the intentions of an aging Putin and overreacts to a Russian attempt to test US military capacities.
  41. The US Empire will collapse, probably following this conflict, into competing states and statelets.
  42. The Euro and EU will collapse, although, a little like the Holy Roman Empire, the name “EU” may continue attached to an impotent and irrelevant body. A European political entity, dominated and organised by Germany, will emerge in its place. Freed from the US empire, Germany will exercise a strong and independent role on the world stage – a development predicted by Oswald Spengler, but distorted by WWII.
  43. The suicide rate among white women over 40 in the West will explode into a public health crisis. People will be unable to explain why single women with nothing to live for but a fur baby (cat/dog), booze, the memory of multiple sexual partners and an abortion are killing themselves. The popular explanations will be “patriarchy” and “white supremacy”. The real explanation is feminism.
  44. Doctors will begin to see depression as a terminal illness and will not intervene if depressed people express a wish to commit suicide (this has already been mooted in the American Medical Association’s ethics journal, so I fully expect this to become official policy in the West).
  45. The prevalence of PrEP will cause a decline in safe sex practices, leading to a new and extremely virulent strain of HIV/AIDS.
  46. China will engage militarily in the Middle East and Africa, not to seize territory, but simply to give the People’s Liberation Army battle experience.
  47. De facto Chinese colonial rule in parts of Africa will bring stability to many areas of the continent, but Western propaganda will constantly lambast “Chinese neo-imperialism” and “human rights abuses”. However, a continued crisis in the US will limit practical interventions against Chinese power.
  48. Australia will face a major political crisis when a hacker leaks information that reveals that a substantial number of Chinese-Australians are secret dual citizens of the PRC and that CCP cells operate in the highest levels of the Australian state and government.
  49. France will collapse into full civil war.
  50. A major move will take hold in public policy and legal circles to never use a custodial sentence for black Africans in the West. Prison will be likened to slavery, only probation and restorative justice will be permitted in these cases.
  51. A global pandemic, possibly sexually transmitted, will break out and spread with surprising rapidity. The impact will be somewhat similar to HIV/AIDS, although the timeline will be compressed.
  52. A black woman will win the Nobel Prize in Physics.
  53. There will be a crisis in computer chip speed improvement, with the industry bemoaning and concealing stalled development.
  54. Home ownership will become increasingly rare, with people living the “rented life” – often in large corporate-sponsored dormitories. A young person will move from a university dormitory to a company dormitory and continue roughly the same lifestyle as university into their mid-30s.
  55. Third-world slum conditions will accelerate in European cities, particularly London. Events like the Grenfell Tower fire will become regular and often spark ethnic tensions. Drug-resistant TB outbreaks will become common in these cities.
  56. Private police forces will outperform the state, especially in the UK.
  57. University eduction will become increasingly worthless, with employees demanding a PhD or good Master’s degree as minimum evidence of intellectual ability. Young people will train themselves using YouTube videos and eschew university education altogether.
  58. The consumption of formerly illegal drugs will increase enormously. The legalisation of cannabis will spur movements to legalise psychotropics, particularly LSD and a commercialised synthetic form of Ayahuasca (aka DMT). In the interim, drug dealing will mostly occur via platforms like the Silk Road, only more secure and integrated with delivery networks similar to Deliveroo.
  59. A cryptocurrency will significantly destabilise a major national currency.
  60. A film will be made where middle age people reminisce about a threesome they had in 2013; it will be produced in a hipster-friendly way, quite melancholy and with subdued visual tones, and will feature large amounts of soul-searching. It will be a massive critical hit and described as “generation defining” in reviews.
  61. The term “boxed set” will lose all connection to its original meaning and will be used to describe any form of prolonged visual entertainment. “We’re going to box set” will come to mean everything from watching a VR movie to watching normal TV. It will also be a euphemism for sex.
  62. A craze will develop for wearing a VR headset while high on micro-doses of LSD.
  63. Contemporary computer screens will be revealed to cause significant eye damage.
  64. Laser eye surgery will be found to cause catastrophic degeneration of the eyes late in life.
  65. An imam will offer prayers in Westminster Abbey when Charles III is crowned king.
  66. A child will die due to being plugged into a VR headset unsupervised for hours on end.
  67. An app will be developed that, taking advantage of eye movement stimulation, can induce a feeling euphoria similar to meditation or mild psychotropic drug use.
  68. Computer game manufacturers will be revealed to have included patterns that stimulate quasi-addictive behaviour in players. They will be sued for billions of dollars, many will be bankrupted.
  69. Apple will fail as a company and collapse.
  70. Social justice themes will fade in advertising as personalised adverts become more common. You will be shown images of yourself dancing with a celebrity or driving a car.
  71. The “social justice era” will be remembered in the same way as the Cultural Revolution in China and the Red Decade in the US. Repentant social justice warriors, contemporary equivalents to Whittaker Chambers, will record videos that describe their mistakes. Economists will identify the emergence of social justice themes in a company as an early symptom of business failure.
  72. Female hard right celebrities, like the videographer Lauren Southern, will marry black men or Asian Muslims and write books with titles like, “The Hopelessness of Hate: How one woman found love and liberation from white supremacy”.
  73. In an attempt to boost the West’s ailing consumer economy, we will see a wide range of new celebrations pushed in the mass media. Women will be encouraged to have “abortion parties” after their first abortion, and a wide range of greetings cards and celebratory cakes will be developed to encourage this movement.
  74. A movement to normalise bestiality will gain ground. Its most emotionally illiterate members will demand that animals be genetically engineered to facilitate human-to-animal sex. This movement will be widely supported by utilitarians of the Steven Pinker type, who will claim that genetically modified bestiality will increase the sum happiness of the world.
  75. Films and books that portray white people in a remotely favourable light, regardless of context, will be considered racist in toto.
  76. Cold fusion will still be “ten years away”.
  77. The “climate change panic” will be regarded as one of the great follies of history, similar to Dutch tulip mania. Documentaries and mocking programs will be made about “how people could be so stupid as to believe in climate change.”
  78. Discussions will be opened regarding the ethical consequences of eating human flesh. Companies will demonstrate concept machines that make “human jerky”. This will be justified as an environmental measure and a way to “remember grandma forever”. This idea will remain at the concept stage for another two decades until full cannibalism returns.

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