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← All spacesForecasts about how cities grow, shrink and move people and goods, spanning transport technology, infrastructure, housing and urban adaptation. 05 active predictions, ordered by distance.
ParallaxSee Mobility & Cities
Forecast 01 Target 2028Open prediction
Chinese patents and production milestones point toward a small market for new flying cars by 2028. Modular aircraft, transforming gyroplanes and more ambitious designs face a common test: approvals and completed customer deliveries.
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Forecast 02 Target 2029Open prediction
Chinese researchers are teaching cars to imagine the next few seconds, learn from fleet experience and understand their own condition. The result will change how vehicles drive, how engineers design them and what owners expect after purchase.
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Forecast 03 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.
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Forecast 04 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.
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Forecast 05 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.
