culture predictions for 2023 | Future timeline

Read cultural predictions for 2023, a year that will see cultural changes and events transform the world as we know it—we explore many of these changes below.

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.

culture forecasts for 2023

Forecast
In 2023, a number of culture breakthroughs and trends will become available to the public, for example:
  • Canadians with criminal records will have their cannabis-related convictions pardoned between 2020 and 2023. Likelihood: 80% 1
  • The Canadian government decriminalizes the possession and consumption of all illicit drugs in a shift toward treating addicts instead of incarcerating them between 2023 to 2024. Likelihood: 50% 1
  • 90% of the global population will have a supercomputer in their pocket. 1
  • 10% of reading glasses will be connected to the internet. 1
  • 80% of people on earth will have a digital presence online. 1
  • The first government to replace its census with big-data technologies 1
  • World population forecasted to reach 7,991,396,000 1

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