Predictions for 2035 | Future timeline

Read 284 predictions for 2035, 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 2035

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  • Earth experiences a "mini ice age" as solar activity decreases by 1% 1
  • New train technology travels 3x faster than airplanes 1
  • Majority of vehicles contain vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications to transmit information about speed, heading, brake status 1
  • Humans can "upgrade" their senses with implants that detect more signals (radio waves, X-rays, etc.) 1
  • Scientists develop cure for HIV through genome editing to cut the HIV genome out of DNA 1
  • Gene-editing technology allows scientists to cure genetic diseases 1
  • Genomes of all discovered mammal species sequenced 1
  • World population forecasted to reach 8,838,907,000 1
  • Share of global car sales taken by autonomous vehicles equals 38 per cent 1
  • World sales of electric vehicles reaches 16,466,667 1
  • Average number of connected devices, per person, is 16 1
  • Global number of Internet connected devices reaches 139,200,000,000 1
  • Predicted global mobile web traffic equals 414 exabytes 1
  • Global Internet traffic grows to 1,118 exabytes 1

Country forecasts for 2035

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