Predictions for 2023 | Future timeline
Read 422 predictions for 2023, 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. This is just one of many possible futures society may experience.
Fast forecasts for 2023
- Countries agree on an international treaty mandating the largest companies, including big tech, to pay more corporate tax abroad and a smaller share in their home countries. 1
- 65% of the global population will have its personal data protected by privacy regulations. 1
- Members of the United Nations-backed Race to Zero campaign is required to restrict the development, financing, and facilitation of new fossil fuel assets, including banning future coal projects. 1
- The European Union implements the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRSs) for large public-interest companies with more than 500 employees. 1
- The European Space Agency launches the Hera Mission, a binary asteroid system designed to detect threatening asteroids weeks before they get near Earth. 1
- The OSIRIS-REx mission, which launched in 2016 to visit the asteroid Bennu, returns a 2.1 ounce sample of the rocky body back to Earth. 1
- The combined market for PCs and tablets declines 2.6 percent before returning to growth in 2024. 1
- NASA and Axiom Space launch the second private astronaut mission to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX rockets. 1
- The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches the world's first wooden satellite. 1
- The COVID-19 pandemic ends. 1
- General Motors sells 20 all-electric car models, combining battery-electric and fuel-cell-electric vehicles. 1
- Global gas markets remain tight as Russian pipeline gas exports decrease, keeping energy prices high, in spite of gas demand falling in Europe due to aggressive energy-saving measures. 1
- Global polysilicon capacities nearly double by end of this year to 536 GW compared to 295 GW in 2022. 1
- UN finally delivers climate plan to reduce emissions caused by global shipping industry. 1
- The first government to replace its census with big-data technologies 1
- 10% of reading glasses will be connected to the internet. 1
- 80% of people on earth will have a digital presence online. 1
- 90% of the global population will have a supercomputer in their pocket. 1
- Acoustic earthquake shield developed to protect cities from earthquakes begin seeing initial use 1
- Modifying genes to renew all body issues to youthful versions becomes possible 1
- Cost of solar panels, per watt, equals 1 US dollars 1
- World population forecasted to reach 7,991,396,000 1
- World sales of electric vehicles reaches 8,546,667 1
- Predicted global mobile web traffic equals 66 exabytes 1
- Global Internet traffic grows to 302 exabytes 1
Country forecasts for 2023
Read forecasts about 2023 specific to a range of countries, including:
Technology forecasts for 2023
Technology related predictions due to make an impact in 2023 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
- 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
- Why are countries competing to build the biggest supercomputers? Future of Computers P6
Culture forecasts for 2023
Culture related predictions due to make an impact in 2023 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
- The trends pushing our education system towards radical change: Future of education P1
Science forecasts for 2023
Science related predictions due to make an impact in 2023 include:
Health forecasts for 2023
Health related predictions due to make an impact in 2023 include:
- Responsibility over your quantified health: Future of Health P7
- Precision healthcare taps into your genome: Future of Health P3
- Healthcare nearing a revolution: Future of Health P1