What 2024 will look like | Future Forecast

Read 108 predictions for 2024, 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.

Fast Forecasts for 2024

• More than 50% of Internet traffic to homes will be from appliances and other home devices. 1
• Artificial muscles used in robots can lift more weight and generate more mechanical power than human muscles 1
• New prosthetic models convey sensations of feeling 1
• First manned mission to Mars 1
• Cost of solar panels, per watt, equals 0.9 US dollars 1
• Global reserves of Indium is fully mined and depleted 1
• Saudi Arabia's "Jubail II" is fully built 1
• World population forecasted to reach 8,067,008,000 1
• World sales of electric vehicles reaches 9,206,667 1
• Predicted global mobile web traffic equals 84 exabytes 1
• Global Internet traffic grows to 348 exabytes 1

Technology Forecasts for 2024

Technology related predictions due to make an impact in 2024 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
• Your future inside the Internet of Things: Future of the Internet P4
• 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

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Technology related podcast episodes that cover trends in 2024

• Military lasers to redefine how we fight future wars | Life in 2030 podcast | S1:E2

Business News for 2024

Business related predictions due to make an impact in 2024 include:

• As e-commerce dies, click and mortar takes its place: Future of retail P3

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Culture Forecasts for 2024

Culture related predictions due to make an impact in 2024 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
• Infrastructure 3.0, rebuilding tomorrow’s megacities: Future of Cities P6

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Culture related podcast episodes that cover trends in 2024

• When Generation X takes over politics and reshapes the world | Life in 2030 podcast | S1:E4

Science Forecasts for 2024

Science related predictions due to make an impact in 2024 include:

• A day with your self-driving car: Future of Transportation P1

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Health Forecasts for 2024

Health related predictions due to make an impact in 2024 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

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March 3, 2021. Last updated March 3, 2019.

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