Predictions for 2029 | Future timeline
Read 26 predictions for 2029, 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 2029
- The Europe Space Agency's probe arrives to study Jupiter and its three moons - Ganymede, Callisto, and Europa. 1
- Robotic sex partners become a commonplace 1
- Implants enhance intelligence, memory, etc 1
- The first immortal mouse is created 1
- End of wrinkles for those who can afford it 1
- Cost of solar panels, per watt, equals 0.6 US dollars 1
- Global reserves of Silver is fully mined and depleted 1
- World population forecasted to reach 8,430,712,000 1
- World sales of electric vehicles reaches 12,506,667 1
- Predicted global mobile web traffic equals 204 exabytes 1
- Global Internet traffic grows to 638 exabytes 1
Country forecasts for 2029
Read forecasts about 2029 specific to a range of countries, including:
Technology forecasts for 2029
Technology related predictions due to make an impact in 2029 include:
- The big business future behind self-driving cars: Future of Transportation P2
- Your future inside the Internet of Things: Future of the Internet P4
- The day wearables replace smartphones: Future of the Internet P5
- Your addictive, magical, augmented life: Future of the Internet P6
- Housing prices crash as 3D printing and maglevs revolutionize construction: Future of Cities P3
Culture forecasts for 2029
Culture related predictions due to make an impact in 2029 include:
- The last job creating industries: Future of Work P4
- Jobs that will survive automation: Future of Work P3
- Death of the full-time job: Future of Work P2
- AI police crush the cyber underworld: Future of policing P3
- Automated policing within the surveillance state: Future of policing P2
Science forecasts for 2029
Science related predictions due to make an impact in 2029 include:
- GMOs vs superfoods | Future of Food P3
- Peak cheap oil triggers renewable era: Future of Energy P2
- Renewables vs. the thorium and fusion energy wildcards: Future of Energy P5
- The rise of the transportation internet: Future of Transportation P4
- China, rise of a new global hegemon: Geopolitics of Climate Change
Health forecasts for 2029
Health related predictions due to make an impact in 2029 include:
- Future of beauty: Future of Human Evolution P1
- Tomorrow’s pandemics and the super drugs engineered to fight them: Future of Health P2
