Predictions for 2040 | Future timeline
Read 362 predictions for 2040, 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 2040
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- Nestle invents a device that designs meals around individuals' nutrient needs. 1
- Memory implants could be used to speed-up time for prisoners, allowing them to serve maximum sentences in a day 1
- Scientists can erase and restore memories 1
- Tobacco is largely eradicated due to farm land increasingly reserved for food production 1
- A new generation of hi-tech supercarriers 1
- World population forecasted to reach 9,157,233,000 1
- Share of global car sales taken by autonomous vehicles equals 50 per cent 1
- World sales of electric vehicles reaches 19,766,667 1
- (Moore's Law) Calculations per second, per $1,000, equals 10^20 1
- Average number of connected devices, per person, is 19 1
- Global number of Internet connected devices reaches 171,570,000,000 1
- Predicted global mobile web traffic equals 644 exabytes 1
- Global Internet traffic grows to 1,628 exabytes 1
- Optimistic forecasted rise in global temperatures, above pre-industrial levels, is 1.62 degrees Celsius 1
- Largest age cohort for the Brazilian population is 35-44 1
- Largest age cohort for the Mexican population is 40-44 1
- Largest age cohort for the Middle East population is 30-39 1
- Largest age cohort for the African population is 0-4 1
- Largest age cohort for the European population is 50-54 1
- Largest age cohort for the Indian population is 25-29 1
- Largest age cohort for the Chinese population is 50-54 1
- Largest age cohort for the United States population is 15-24 and 45-49 1
Country forecasts for 2040
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Technology forecasts for 2040
Technology related predictions due to make an impact in 2040 include:
Culture forecasts for 2040
Culture related predictions due to make an impact in 2040 include:
- Universal Basic Income cures mass unemployment
- The last job creating industries: Future of Work P4
- List of future legal precedents tomorrow's courts will judge: Future of law P5
- Automated judging of criminals: Future of law P3
- Mind-reading devices to end wrongful convictions: Future of law P2
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Science forecasts for 2040
Science related predictions due to make an impact in 2040 include:
- The job-eating, economy-boosting, social impact of driverless vehicles: Future of Transportation P5
- Your future diet in bugs, in-vitro meat, and synthetic foods: Future of food P5
- Our future in an energy abundant world: Future of Energy P6
- The end of meat in 2035: Future of Food P2
- China, rise of a new global hegemon: Geopolitics of Climate Change
