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