Society & cultureOpen

Over the next 10-20 years: deindustrialization and deurbanization, remilitarization and nationalism, resource wars, famines, genocides and slavery.

Timeline Closes in 19.4 years

Timeframe 10 to 20 yearsWindow 20.0 yearsSaid again 10×

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Long-horizon (to 2046) composite forecast. As of Oct 2026 the Iran war and Hormuz disruption have produced fertilizer/food shocks and remilitarization talk, but no measurable deindustrialization, deurbanization, famine-genocide-slavery wave is established.

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So, massive trend is deindustrialization and deurbanization where people in the cities will have to move back to the countryside, especially young people.
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Iran & Middle East

A quick US-Iran peace deal, or both sides exhausting themselves in 5-6 months so things return to normal, will not happen.

There was no lasting peace deal, and things did not return to normal by 2026-09-24. The April ceasefire and the June Islamabad Memorandum collapsed on 2026-07-08. Hostilities resumed in September, and Trump rejected Iran's ceasefire proposal on 2026-09-26.

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Resolved Sep 2026said Mar 2026
Economy & markets

Without Gulf oil exports, China and the global economy will be severely damaged; the global economy is effectively dead.

Gulf exports were heavily curtailed by the Hormuz closure through much of 2026, and that did push up oil prices and slow growth. But the global economy is far from 'dead': the IMF projects 3.1% growth for 2026 and even nudged its forecast up in October.

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Iran & Middle East

Iran could cut undersea internet cables, disrupting internet for 20-30% of the world (Africa, India, Middle East, parts of Europe).

I found no reports of Iran cutting undersea cables as of Oct 2026. Regional outages came instead from drone strikes on AWS data centers in the UAE in early March. This was low-confidence and framed as a possibility. (Checked only against Wikipedia war articles; the web search budget ran out, so absence of reports is not fully confirmed.)

Open
Said Mar 24, 2026no deadline
Society & culture

Revolutions, wars and famines will hit non-resilient states, and migration from Africa/Middle East to Europe and Latin America to the US will accelerate by about 100 times.

Deadline 2036. Early signs against: no 100-fold rise in migration flows, and US southern border apprehensions fell over 90% year-on-year in early 2025 to about 7,000-8,500 per month, the lowest since the 1960s.

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Israel

Israel will come to dominate the Middle East as local hegemon (Pax Judaica) after knocking the US out of the region, possibly splitting the region with Iran.

As of Oct 2026 the US-Iran war (begun 2026-02-28) is unresolved and grinding on as a war of attrition; the US still has roughly 40-50k troops in the region, though in Aug 2026 the Pentagon reportedly weighed reducing its Gulf presence after the war. Israel is not yet regional hegemon. Deadline 2046.

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Closes Mar 2046in 7099 days
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