Predictions for 2046 | Future timeline

Read 7 predictions for 2046, 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 trend intelligence consulting firm that uses strategic foresight to help companies thrive from future trends in foresight. This is just one of many possible futures society may experience.

Fast forecasts for 2046

  • Countries and companies increasingly look to mine asteroids for significant economic gains; this shift has been enabled by investments in asteroid identification, automated mining technologies, and bringing the cost of space flights during the 2020s and 2030s. (Likelihood 90%)1
  • AI entities gain an AI representative in government. 1
  • Outdoor static advertising is largely replaced with dynamic digital advertising. 1
  • AI entities gain an AI representative in government 1
  • Outdoor static advertising is largely replaced with dynamic advertising 1
Fast Forecast
  • AI entities gain an AI representative in government 1
  • Outdoor static advertising is largely replaced with dynamic advertising 1
  • World population forecasted to reach 9,510,267,000 1
  • World sales of electric vehicles reaches 23,726,667 1

Country forecasts for 2046

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