From Infidel753:
If there’s been one constant across the last four centuries, it’s ever-accelerating technological progress and cultural change. There have been setbacks for a few years in this or that country, but taking the long view, they’re trivial compared to the overall trend. It’s a safe bet that that trend will continue.
Here are some things I expect will happen before the end of the twenty-first century:
1) Victory over global warming, by a combination of geoengineering and a massive world-wide shift to non-fossil-fuel energy.
2) General abandonment and rejection of the practice of meat-eating as barbaric and disgusting.
3) Decline of religion to near-irrelevance in the US, Latin America, and even the Middle East, similar to what has already happened in most of Europe.
4) Two or three more profound changes in cultural attitudes at least as fundamental as the sexual revolution or the shift toward acceptance of gay rights.
5) Unmanned space probes to some nearby stars, traveling at close to the speed of light, possibly microscopic.