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I can't really think of anything huge like a major change in terms of geopolitics or a colony on Venus, but I'm certain that more countries will have legalised gay-marriage by then(the US, Australia, Germany etc.), ourselves included. I think it's gonna be legalised within a couple of years here.
If not, there'd at least be civil union.
In an optimistic scenery, Boko Haram and ISIS will be already be defeated, the chavism in Latin America will be defunct, replaced by full democratic and capitalist governments; Russia and China will suspend the support to North Korea, leading to the fall of the dynasty of the Kims and reuniting it with South Korea in a single, prosperous and democratic country. I don't know if it is a good thing or not, but maybe India will surpass China as the new focus of economic growth. In terms of science and technology is hard to predict, but maybe smartphones will become commodities, another startup will emerge and challenge Apple, Google and Microsoft, and Ultra HD televisions will be standard. The astronomers also will have found some sort of life outside Earth, probably in an extrasolar planet. Brazil solves the crisis in football and wins the sixth FIFA World Cup in 2018.
In a pessimistic scenery... ISIS will receive support of Boko Haram and be successful in destroy the Vatican (thus fullfilling a claimed prophecy of St. Malachy), other terrorist groups will arise, Russia will try to invade other countries, will receive sanctions of EU and USA and, in reprisal, will support terrorist groups and receive support of Iran and Venezuela - leading the world to the Third World War. China will remain neutral. The budget for military supplies will have impact in the development of science and technology (althoug it may be used decades later for other purposes). Brazil re-elects Lula da Silva for another term and will be nominally neutral in the war, but giving silent support to Venezuela. Argentina wins its third FIFA World Cup in 2018 and Brazil don't even qualify.
But... as most of the predictions, none of these sceneries will happen and completely new and unpredictable things will happen until 2020. Some issues will be solved and new issues will arise.
In the past, for some reason people were obsessed with flying machines.
We are not that far off: commercial drones are in the trial-run stage, in the US at least.
We already have big-screen videos with public announcements and advertisements in public places, even on roadways, 1980s computers are indeed antiques.
In the early 1900s, city streets were filled with horse manure, people thought there would be an environmental disaster. Then the car came along.
A hundred years later, we have traffic, parking and pollution problems ...
The former Westward expansion to California and points West will be in full flight Eastward as California, Nevada (and Utah, most of Texas) become deserts. Unless desalination plants and turning brown and grey water in drinking and ag water are put into play in a big way--and soon, very soon.
The price of fresh prodcue will go way up as California cannot grow crops due to lack of watering capability.
The Middle East will still be in chaos..
We'll still be dealing with the remnants of a huge recession....
I have been living in my present apartment complex for eight years, and I can't see where anything has changed in those eight years, except normal fluctuations in things that are not likely to represent permanent trajectories. So I have no expectations of any visible change in the next five years, either.
Things will fluctuate, as they do. In 2020, some things will be at a peak, some on an upswing, some on a downswing. -- just as some things are now. It doesn't matter.
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