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. 34 published predictions, ordered by publication date.
ParallaxSee Food & Agriculture
Forecast 01 Target 2035Open prediction
Machines that recognize weeds and treat them individually could change the economics of crop farming. Their success will depend on affordable equipment, reliable savings, and performance across entire growing seasons.
ParallaxSee Medicine & Health
Forecast 02 Target 2035Open prediction
Chinese clinical studies and Japanese tooth-growth research are opening different routes to dental regeneration. The clearest path toward useful treatment begins with rebuilding living tissue inside and around teeth that patients still have.
ParallaxSee Medicine & Health
Forecast 03 Target 2035Open prediction
Longevity research is moving toward treatments that preserve sight, mobility and independence. Academic studies and patents support a hopeful 2035 forecast for larger human trials showing benefits against age-related decline.
ParallaxSee Food & Agriculture
Forecast 04 Target 2035Open prediction
Fermentation factories will supply ingredients for familiar meals. Reaching a global share of 5% will require an ambitious industrial expansion—and its contribution to ending hunger will depend on who can afford the food.
ParallaxSee Sports
Forecast 05 Target 2032Open prediction
By 2032, it will make its debut at the Brisbane Games.
ParallaxSee Technology
Forecast 06 Target 2040Open prediction
By 2040, the public will be able to see one—but it will arrive through an optical instrument, not in a tin of paint.
ParallaxSee Medicine & Health
Forecast 07 Target 2035Open prediction
A molecule that interrupts the signal for making sperm has reached human trials. Its promise extends beyond reproductive biology: couples could gain a new way to share the work of preventing pregnancy, with a prescription written in the man's name.
ParallaxSee Technology
Forecast 08 Target 2035Open prediction
Chinese researchers have shown that a contact lens can turn invisible infrared signals into visible colours. The next advance will give specialist users an additional layer of sight—through a material worn directly on the eye.
ParallaxSee Medicine & Health
Forecast 09 Target 2040Open prediction
The science points towards medical inhalers that deliver nutrients to selected patients. Their success will depend on reliable dosing, respiratory safety and a convincing advantage over existing treatment.
ParallaxSee Politics & Governance
Forecast 10 Target 2032Open prediction
We forecast a 60% chance that European NATO allies will publicly demonstrate European-led conventional defence by 2032, with important American support retained. The decisive investments are factories, trained crews and shared logistics.
ParallaxSee Mobility & Cities
Forecast 11 Target 2035Open prediction
Private sleeping pods, simpler booking and a larger fleet will turn overnight rail into a substantial competitor to flying. Europe’s opportunity is to sell travellers a bed, a journey and a morning already at their destination.
ParallaxSee Technology
Forecast 12 Target 2040Open prediction
Chinese generative models are learning to propose aircraft shapes. Combined with new carbon-fibre structures, they could help turn the giant-wing airliner into an entirely different passenger experience.
ParallaxSee Science & Space
Forecast 13 Target 2032Open prediction
The decisive experiment will produce nuclear signals on command inside a hydrogen-loaded solid after the energetic particle beam is removed.
ParallaxSee Science & Space
Forecast 14 Target 2032Open prediction
China's first undersea settlement will earn its place as a permanent scientific instrument, robot base and biological observatory—not as an escape from life on land.
ParallaxSee Medicine & Health
Forecast 15 Target 2040Open prediction
A skin cell can already be reset, assigned to the germ line and taken through much of the journey towards an egg. Meiosis, imprinting and egg cytoplasm are the remaining engineering frontier.
ParallaxSee Technology
Forecast 16 Target 2032Open prediction
High-fidelity solvers will create trusted reference worlds. Neural operators and generative ensembles will turn each one into thousands of rapid, verifiable experiments.
ParallaxSee Technology
Forecast 17 Target 2035Open prediction
Patents taught sound to cross bone, correct its own aim and listen to microbubbles. Human trials now show one platform can ablate circuits, deliver drugs, activate tumour therapy and stimulate deep brain targets.
ParallaxSee Technology
Forecast 18 Target 2033Open prediction
The next luxury label will bind a verified creator, trusted tools and a signed production history to the finished work. Buyers will pay more for accountable human time.
ParallaxSee Politics & Governance
Forecast 19 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 20 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 21 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 22 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 23 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 24 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 25 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 26 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 27 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 28 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 29 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 30 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 31 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 32 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 33 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 34 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.
