PARALLAXSEEForecast horizon / 6–15 years
← Forecast indexMid-future forecasts track changes that need several technological, political or social steps before they can resolve over the next six to fifteen years. 16 published predictions, ordered by publication date.
ParallaxSee Politics & Governance
Forecast 01 Target 2032Open prediction
Seoul will secure safeguarded fuel-cycle rights and a nuclear-submarine programme, shortening the distance to a weapon while remaining inside the NPT.
ParallaxSee Work & Economy
Forecast 02 Target 2032Open prediction
Cambodia's QR network has already made the riel its busier digital currency. Wages will follow, beginning in banks and garment factories, while dollars settle into savings and large contracts.
ParallaxSee Food & Agriculture
Forecast 03 Target 2032Open prediction
Thailand's export factories, tropical insect farms and mastery of wet pet food will turn black soldier fly protein into an ordinary ingredient for dogs and cats worldwide.
ParallaxSee Technology
Forecast 04 Target 2035Open prediction
France will turn the constant heat of its AI processors into municipal infrastructure, delivering 2.5 TWh a year to buildings and district-heating networks.
ParallaxSee Climate & Environment
Forecast 05 Target 2035Open prediction
Brazil's half-century ethanol experiment will become aviation's new refinery, converting sugarcane alcohol into certified jet fuel at industrial scale.
ParallaxSee Mobility & Cities
Forecast 06 Target 2040Open prediction
Japan will concentrate daily life inside compact hubs, retire infrastructure beyond them and become the first wealthy country to design population decline into the land itself.
ParallaxSee Technology
Forecast 07 Target 2032Open prediction
Ukraine's microphones and Iran's shattered radars reveal the next defensive architecture: passive acoustic, optical and radio sensors fused by AI across an entire country.
ParallaxSee Climate & Environment
Forecast 08 Target 2035Open prediction
A publicly funded fleet will brighten summer clouds with seawater, protecting a reef economy whose value far exceeds the programme's durable maritime cost.
ParallaxSee Climate & Environment
Forecast 09 Target 2032Open prediction
Rigid wings, spinning rotors and weather-routing software will make wind an automated fuel-saving system on at least 1,000 commercial ships.
ParallaxSee Mobility & Cities
Forecast 10 Target 2035Open prediction
Deliveries will sustain home-centred districts while a smaller archipelago of neighbourhoods preserves direct human contact, reshaping mobility, property and local commerce.
ParallaxSee Politics & Governance
Forecast 11 Target 2040Open prediction
Egypt can preserve military continuity without appearing hereditary by elevating Defence Minister Ashraf Salem Zaher instead of Sisi's son.
ParallaxSee Work & Economy
Forecast 12 Target 2032Open prediction
Returning mortgages, investment reform and Argentina's economic normalisation will turn the undervalued capital into the world's next major property market starting in 2027.
ParallaxSee Literature & Arts
Forecast 13 Target 2032Open prediction
Scarcity, attribution and sovereign museum money will push a Leonardo through the billion-dollar threshold, most likely in a private Gulf-backed transaction.
ParallaxSee Sports
Forecast 14 Target 2036Open prediction
New York's uncapped commercial market and San Antonio's tax-efficient young core fit the NBA's new salary economy better than any rivals.
ParallaxSee Politics & Governance
Forecast 15 Target 2035Open prediction
Chen Jining's technocratic record and Shanghai leadership make him the strongest named candidate for an orderly transition after Xi, despite China's opaque succession politics.
ParallaxSee Medicine & Health
Forecast 16 Target 2035Open prediction
Gene-edited pigs, better rejection control and earlier immune-warning tests will keep at least one recipient alive and off dialysis for a full year by 2035.
