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Most of the world is in the middle of a baby bust. That generation will be middle aged in 30 years.
I think it's still or yet to be dawning on people that the past few decades have been time of social and economic boom. During these times, people think the party will never stop.
In other news, we're also in the middle of a space race. 30 years is well beyond the timelines for establishing permanent presence on the moon. People also don't seem to have noticed that the space industry is rapidly commercializing.
The tech industry has stagnated. It's a few ad tech companies that have achieved total surveillance capitalism and total capture of the tech industry to do their bidding. Namely to build glorified sensors and billboards which trap us in a feedback loop of spying and commercial consumption. Maybe the new space race will spur another technological revolution.