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What are your predictions for the 2020's?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,268 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    Cigarettes will pass the €20 a pack mark.
    The average house price in Dublin will go above 500k.
    Increasing levels of unemployables and OAPs will put our social welfare system under serious pressure.
    Border controls will tighten in the developed world in the face of climate and economic migration.
    The backlash against feminism will go mainstream and identity politics will reach it's zenith and begin to die off as the world realises it needs to start dealing with real problems like climate change, wide scale unemployment, migration, ageing populations and water scarcity instead of wasting time listening to people whining about their feelings.
    We'll have a number of natural disasters on the scale of the Tsunami of 2004 and we'll start to see internationally funded initiatives in climate engineering (white/reflective roofing etc.).
    A western country we formally thought of as part of the "civilised" world will descend into civil war (the UK looks an early candidate for this).
    Parties of the left will continue to splinter allowing minority right wing governments to continue to pursue policies that widen the wealth gap.

    TL/DR: everything will continue to get worse.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,252 ✭✭✭FTA69


    In Europe I think we’ll see another economic downturn linked to another global recession.

    The political left will collapse and trade unions will be further decimated and eroded. The political choice will be between the far-right or neo-liberal capitalists; the opposition to this will be a woolly green movement and more mad identity, individualised identity politics with no class analysis.

    Climate change will increase and we will begin to see refugees looking to pour into Europe. Automation and an increase in AI will see job losses and precarity increase. As public services decline or disappear and people are split into individual economic actors solidarity will disappear. Crime and alienation will increase and we will see a further slide into authoritarianism.

    I honestly think the future is quite bleak.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    More Brexit extensions


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,234 ✭✭✭bullpost


    The war on drugs will end.

    Private car ownership for most will end.

    Standards of living will go into an irreversible decline due to climate change.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip pass away


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 418 ✭✭Duane Dibbley


    All new cars in the EU will have breathalyzer fitted by 2022

    Not a prediction . just a fact


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 428 ✭✭blueshade


    As Europe continues to be culturally enriched hate speech laws will be introduced all across Europe to try to stop people discussing the problems of mass migration.

    Politicians will continue to ignore the problems that multiculturalism has brought and more and more Europeans will vote for Far Right parties while left wing types will pretend that it's nothing to do with cultural clashes and that Europe has just inexplicably turned racist for no apparent reason.

    The Irish government will continue to increase Foreign Aid spending and spending on Direct Provision while telling the Irish people that they can't afford to build more social housing, provide more hospital beds and continue to cut local services.

    Brussels will continue to add more and more Eastern European countries in order to try to offload some of the Sub Saharan Africans and other illegal freeloaders roaming France Italy and Spain.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,739 ✭✭✭scamalert


    All new cars in the EU will have breathalyzer fitted by 2022

    Not a prediction . just a fact
    having to blow your car in 2022 :pac: fcking hell people had ideas we would be living in mars/space in the past or robots taking over but this will be our new legacy.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,570 ✭✭✭vriesmays


    Ireland will have a quarter million muslims.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,363 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    A concerted move further right in Irish politics, though still less than the extent seen in the last 5-10 years on the Continent.

    Leo will be deposed in 2024 after an election loss. Lisa Chambers will become the first woman Taoiseach. Mairead McGuinness will be elected President.

    The softest of Brexits will take place using an off-the-shelf deal like Norway, it will stop being a massive issue as Britain faces up to the damage merely talking about it for 5 years has done.

    Trump will not be reelected and will be dead long before age 80 due his lifestyle. The houses of Congress will not be under joint control of one Party until the midterm elections of 2026. The first female President will take office, but she will be a Republican.

    The centre of world conflict and proxy wars will continue to be the middle east, however Israel and Palestine will agree a peace deal under Prime Minister Benny Gantz. It will be tested.

    Workers rights, pension funding and retirement age will continue to erode in a low interest global aging economy. 20's Graduates will expect to work till their mid 70s.

    As 65% of emissions contributing to climate change come from fossil fuel burning power generation and industrial processes, principally in the BRIIC countries, I expect the reality in 2030 to be no brighter than 2020. You can drive as many Nissan Leafs and put burp masks on all the livestock in Ireland all you like, it will matter not a damn.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,046 ✭✭✭Berserker


    Andreas77 wrote: »
    I'm hoping to meet a lady who is a dog in the bedroom, very dirty, down for whatever, including ass play.

    You'll be able to get a very realistic robot to do that by the end of the 2020s, I reckon, given the advances in that field.
    Marhay70 wrote: »
    One thing I can absolutely guarantee is that Leo Varadkar will still be a narcissistic ar*ehole.

    He'll be off to Brussels after the next election, surely?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,916 ✭✭✭Marhay70


    Berserker wrote: »


    He'll be off to Brussels after the next election, surely?

    He could be off to the moon for all I know but he'll still be a narcissistic ar*ehole


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,741 ✭✭✭Dr. Bre


    Climate anxiety will be on the increase


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,010 ✭✭✭GooglePlus


    The narcissistic end of the world complex present in every generation will still be there, most likely killing us all.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,363 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    GooglePlus wrote: »
    The narcissistic end of the world complex present in every generation will still be there, most likely killing us all.

    It hasn't killed all the other generations, so why should we be any different? Mankind will endure in some form of civilisation until a catastrophe arrives which makes the planet fully uninhabitable, an asteroid, a nuclear conflict, the eruption of the Yellowstone caldera or a major change in solar activity. Climate change isn't enough to end things on its own, there will be moderate zones to dwell in even in the worst case scenario.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 428 ✭✭blueshade


    Dr. Bre wrote: »
    Climate anxiety will be on the increase

    I don't believe that climate anxiety exists. In the past couple of weeks the toy ads have gone into overdrive and almost all of them are plastic. Anyone who buys them and says they're concerned about the environment or their kids/grandkids future because of climate change, deserves a swift boot up the arse.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,046 ✭✭✭Berserker


    Forgot to add that the annual poppy and Twelfth threads on boards will be as lively as ever.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,256 ✭✭✭Ubbquittious


    Berserker wrote: »
    Forgot to add that the annual poppy and Twelfth threads on boards will be as lively as ever.




    It won't because boards is dieing a death. Id say by 2025 it will be just a few auld codgers like meself making a poppy thread purely for nostalgic reasons


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    My new food company will become a roaring success. It’s local, free-range, artisan, high protein, and cleverly packaged. Yes, Soylent Green will be a brand you will be hearing lots about.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 428 ✭✭blueshade


    I think people are going to get as tired of the talk about climate change as they have about Brexit. I think that people are sick and tired of being lectured on environmental policy by children who have no concept of economic reality and that there's going to be a backlash.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,206 ✭✭✭zig


    blueshade wrote: »
    I think people are going to get as tired of the talk about climate change as they have about Brexit. I think that people are sick and tired of being lectured on environmental policy by children who have no concept of economic reality and that there's going to be a backlash.

    I don’t agree, because most children will be adults by then and will be working and climate change will be more prominent and the only people left trying to ignore it will be old fogeys who are out of touch.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,772 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    I predict government will ban cat ownership in Ireland.

    Experts will have come to the conclusion that cats are one of the greatest threats to native wildlife and will lobby government and succeed in getting cats outlawed.

    Bounties of €20/head will be placed on cats.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,061 ✭✭✭blackcard


    I predict that in 2029 there will be a thread on boards looking for predictions for the 2030's


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 234 ✭✭Shady Grady


    That we will be more screwed than we are this year.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,676 ✭✭✭mondeo


    Would it be obvious to suggest another strong conflict ? Seems likely with the rise of China, Russia flexing in recent years, US reminding them both they are the top dogs. It will probably all start in the middle east to. This modern world we live in is still unstable enough for another world war. There will be DIY Nuclear fallout shelters in Argos !


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,741 ✭✭✭Dr. Bre


    The brits will be still discussing leaving the EU


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7 Relax The Cax


    Brexit till wont have happened.

    I still wont give a flying rats hairy ass about climate change.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 428 ✭✭blueshade


    zig wrote: »
    I don’t agree, because most children will be adults by then and will be working and climate change will be more prominent and the only people left trying to ignore it will be old fogeys who are out of touch.

    Yes, most of the children will be adults with rent/mortgages to pay, along with food bills, utility bills etc. By which stage they'll probably have figured out the reality of life and not be so fricking naive. Of course many of them won't be able to afford to rent or buy so will possibly be still living at home with the old fogeys who still pay the mortgage as well as put food on the table and keep the electricity on. No doubt they'll still be lecturing the old fogeys though.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,010 ✭✭✭GooglePlus


    GooglePlus wrote: »
    The narcissistic end of the world complex present in every generation will still be there, most likely killing us all.
    Larbre34 wrote: »
    It hasn't killed all the other generations, so why should we be any different? Mankind will endure in some form of civilisation until a catastrophe arrives which makes the planet fully uninhabitable, an asteroid, a nuclear conflict, the eruption of the Yellowstone caldera or a major change in solar activity. Climate change isn't enough to end things on its own, there will be moderate zones to dwell in even in the worst case scenario.

    That's my point exactly.

    Every generation has had their extinction event on the tip of the tongue, expecting it all to end on their watch.

    People don't like to accept the fact that they're insignificant. Our generation will be forgotten, just like the rest and life will continue.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,590 ✭✭✭✭M.T. Cranium


    Octogenarians will become sexy. I can hope, can't I?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,590 ✭✭✭✭M.T. Cranium


    Here is a thread started in 2009 that predicted the events of 2010-2019

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055725850

    How many of these predictions came true? :rolleyes:

    I just went over and had a look. Most of them will need to come on strong in the next forty-one days to have much chance. But one did say the world would not end in 2012, so there's one right. Probably all the ones that I can't verify from this distance have also come true.

    There wasn't one murmur about Trump, so no Nostradamus awards.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,590 ✭✭✭✭M.T. Cranium


    Okay so here are some serious predictions, I just read the thread and can agree with about half of them so I will add some different ones ...

    (a) Pope Francis will be forced to retire like Benedict was, and there will be a return to more traditional papacy.

    (b) Trump will easily win re-election after the impeachment farce goes nowhere and Liz Warren loses almost every state in the electoral college.

    (c) Trump will then become ill and either die or be forced to hand over to Pence who will continue to be his vice president through the election.

    (d) Civil war will break out in both the United States and Canada over cultural and economic issues. This will lead to the creation of several new political entities, east, central and western regions forming unions across the current border. This will be fairly messy and violent in some parts and the governments will not recognize each other as equals.

    (e) That will lead to a power vacuum in which China becomes the de facto leading superpower. They will make aggressive moves of various kinds in eastern Asia.

    (f) There will be political unrest in Europe too but it will be subdued compared to North America, in part because the population are disarmed and cannot do much to fight off any enforcement of national sovereignty. But there will be wild swings of policy as pro- and anti-green economy parties come and go. This will lead to a lot of economic uncertainty. Ireland will stay roughly as it is today and prosper because Irish people are generally smart enough to see that a middle course is best. If they don't, I will be over to kick ass because I want this prediction to be entirely correct.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,942 ✭✭✭topper75


    Having popped over to that teens prediction thread for a quick read and a long head shake, I'll happily declare now that the 2020s will be much the same as now with nobody rocking the boat either politically or technologically.
    If I go out on a limb at all - I predict relative global economic stagnation for most of the decade, with the exception of the developing world.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,586 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    Okay so here are some serious predictions...
    (a) Pope Francis will be forced to retire like Benedict was, and there will be a return to more traditional papacy.
    Could be that 'Pete the Roman' is the final Pope, he has a fair few years left, they (RCC) will lean towards a unified/universal church of sorts (for survial), after realising that single dudes and altar boys isn't a good mix.
    (b) Trump will easily win re-election after the impeachment farce goes nowhere and Liz Warren loses almost every state in the electoral college.
    (c) Trump will then become ill and either die or be forced to hand over to Pence who will continue to be his vice president through the election.
    Agree, will win again over LW, with Yang coming close to DN. DT's health could be at risk, but more from protest than natural causes.
    (d) Civil war will break out in both the United States and Canada over cultural and economic issues. This will lead to the creation of several new political entities, east, central and western regions forming unions across the current border. This will be fairly messy and violent in some parts and the governments will not recognize each other as equals.
    Have to rubbish all of this. The US will continue to grow heading towards a stronger connections with Canada (not with Mex), and later seek actual unification with brexited Eng&Wales (post indie Scot-NI), after eating into much of their state assets such as the NHS. This will include the free movement of people and trade, with loss to Ire's MNCs as their CTax directly matches the 12.5.
    (e) That will lead to a power vacuum in which China becomes the de facto leading superpower. They will make aggressive moves of various kinds in eastern Asia.
    Not until 2030's will China be able to overtake the US across all theatres of operations. They will be held back with further trade wars and even widespread trade boycotts over human rights issues from asset rich places such as 'The Peoples Republic of Australia & NZ'.
    (f) There will be political unrest in Europe too but it will be subdued compared to North America, in part because the population are disarmed and cannot do much to fight off any enforcement of national sovereignty. But there will be wild swings of policy as pro- and anti-green economy parties come and go. This will lead to a lot of economic uncertainty. Ireland will stay roughly as it is today and prosper because Irish people are generally smart enough to see that a middle course is best. If they don't, I will be over to kick ass because I want this prediction to be entirely correct.
    Europe is at far greater risk of breakdown, just take a look at Paris/Barca for examples of large scale civil disorder/protests.

    Italy and the V4 will seek independence. The German economy will crash, and will still also have to pay out for the next incoming 6 members. Young native Swedish folks will begin an exodus to the NewWorld, Eng and/or Denmark. Spain will continue to see Vox double their votes as economic migration continues to be an issue across the entire continent.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,206 ✭✭✭zig


    blueshade wrote: »
    Yes, most of the children will be adults with rent/mortgages to pay, along with food bills, utility bills etc. By which stage they'll probably have figured out the reality of life and not be so fricking naive. Of course many of them won't be able to afford to rent or buy so will possibly be still living at home with the old fogeys who still pay the mortgage as well as put food on the table and keep the electricity on. No doubt they'll still be lecturing the old fogeys though.


    If you think this whole climate change "lecturing" thing is going to go away I think you're being naive. Its only the start, and for what its worth I presumably qualify as an old fogey as I approach my 40s soon.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,206 ✭✭✭zig


    mondeo wrote: »
    Would it be obvious to suggest another strong conflict ? Seems likely with the rise of China, Russia flexing in recent years, US reminding them both they are the top dogs. It will probably all start in the middle east to. This modern world we live in is still unstable enough for another world war. There will be DIY Nuclear fallout shelters in Argos !


    I think major wars are less and less likely to occur as time goes on, with the increase in globalisation and mutual dependency on each other war is just way too inconvenient. Plus, democracies dont like to go to war with each other. Plus, humans in general are getting better at seeing through the idiocy of extreme nationalism, much like they are starting to see through the idiocy of extreme anything.

    WW2 only happened because of WW1 and how the Germans were treated, and unfortunately nobody had a choice but to go to war with the Nazis.

    WW1 happened because of idiotic extreme nationalism and gullible people. Now with social media, cameras everywhere and an increased middle class, the idea of heading off to fight a war only to end up having to **** through a tube or walk on crutches at the age of 22 isnt so appealing anymore.

    Even North Korea are only using their nuclear programme as a bargaining chip for having a stronger seat at the table.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,916 ✭✭✭Marhay70


    Eoghan Murphy will fail his Junior Cert again and to make up for the seven billion euro overrun on the National Broadband Plan, FG will extend Property Tax to people living in cars.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,525 ✭✭✭magic_murph


    It 'should' be followed by 2021. Fingers Crossed


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,638 ✭✭✭its_steve116


    L*ve Isl*nd is axed.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,737 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    My serious predictions?

    1) Scotland will vote to remain in the UK by small margin

    2) Another economic catasra**** for Ireland

    3) Backlash to supposed liberal viewpoints/identity politics across Europe

    4) continued environmental degradation with rising outbreaks of 'extreme weather'

    5) Huge Chinese naval build up that will rival and surpass USA

    6) Continued breakdown of US society and rise of separatism on a popular level

    7) Putin to finally retire

    8) Another war between India and Pakistan

    9) Middle East to remain hot spot for conflict

    10) Continued Israeli expansion into Palestinian territory

    11) Turkey to reject philosophy and politics of Erdoğan

    12) EU to become stagnant

    All eyes on Kursk. Slava Ukraini.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Fair City axed with an explosive storyline


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,950 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    Social Media platforms such as Instagram and Facebook to be officially declared detrimental to mental health by the WHO and to be banned in some countries. Additionally further cause to ban Facebook due to election interference.

    America to start their next phony war with Iran further destabilising the region and forcing hordes of refugees to Europe.

    A referendum to take place on a United Ireland that will not pass unfortunately.

    Fine Gael to release action plan 2050 amongst huge publicity and bluster. Included in the plan is Metro North. A rail link to the airport! Can you believe that.

    Boeing 737-max programme is officially scrapped. The plane is way out of kilter and no amount of software can fix it. If they do release it back into service, expect some of them to go down.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,690 ✭✭✭ElChe32


    Andreas77 wrote:
    I'm hoping to meet a lady who is a dog in the bedroom, very dirty, down for whatever, including ass play.


    If nothing else happens in 2020 I hope this come true for you buddy. God speed


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,134 ✭✭✭jimwallace197


    Harmonization of corporate tax rates across the EU once the UK leaves resulting in a recession and more borrowing but as long as paddy gets his pot holes fixed, everything will be grand sure.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,825 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    I think a twenty something yese old will sue their parents and doctors for allowing them to change gender when they were younger.


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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,735 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    The continued transition to becoming a damper version of Sweden in terms of societal changes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,409 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    Manach wrote: »
    The continued transition to becoming a damper version of Sweden in terms of societal changes.

    Roy Keane will be a surprise resigning for Man Utd who'll eventually go on to beat Dublin in the All Ireland Final.

    Boris Johnson will executed in the Tower of London after being unmasked as the father of Prince Harry.

    Northern Ireland will be auctioned off to the highest bidder with Chinese property developers making the highest bid.


  • Posts: 4,727 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    1) A group of people that spent most of their adult lives in recession or hard times will be wondering how they’re going to survive in the rental market when they retire.

    2) A group of people forced to retire at 65 will be seriously struggling while waiting on their pension.

    3) Greater Dublin area will expand further while most jobs will remain in Dublin. Congestion will get worse.

    4) Stay at home parents might become more common as childcare costs are too high to justify working.

    5) A new strain of Flu will cause deaths and panic.

    6) William will be King of England by the end of decade. Elizabeth and Philip both dead. Charles will have stood down.

    7) Irish politics will probably remain similar.

    8) America will continue to have mass shootings and not see that guns are causing the problem.

    Not too much real change. Just issues escalating.
    Happy New Decade lads!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,946 ✭✭✭MayoAreMagic


    The fai will be bailed out.
    John delaney will get away with it.
    The dubs 5 in a row will be viewed as less of an achievement with reflection


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,536 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop


    Kendrick Lamar will release another great album.
    Run The Jewels 4 will be released and a few years later, 5.
    Wu Tang will release one more album before they all disband for good.
    3 more Czarface albums, at least one of which will have a guest like the Ghostface and MF Doom ones. Possibly Redman?
    I'd love another Cypress Hill album similar to the last one but I can't see it. They may go rock again. :-/
    Kool Keith will release 13 albums. Up from 11 in the 2010s.
    The Irish Drill music scene gets a modicum of international recognition.
    Someone will try to reboot or spin off The Wire but it just won't same.
    More Superhero movies than we need.
    Mr. Blobbly will make a brief comeback, for no good reason.
    One of the Spice Girls will exit this world.
    Prince Charles becomes King when the Queen dies.
    2 more popes.
    Ireland get to the quarters in the Euros (football).
    Qualify for a world cup but not get past the 2nd round.
    Bono dies.
    High tech clothing becomes popular, especially footwear.


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