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I've incidentally been working on a whole future fiction project showing the world as it will look by the end of the century. A lot of my predictions feel kinda boring and predictable and maybe a little inappropriate for this comm — stuff about wars and climate change and so forth — but I still have a few more fun or interesting predictions:

1. The first complete human language to develop naturally in the Antarctic will be a sign language native to King George Island.
2. Speaking of sign languages, many popular anime shows and movies will be remade in them.
3. Esperanto will become one of the world's most widely-spoken languages.
4. The Internet will collapse on itself and be replaced with a "Second Internet".
5. A bridge over the Bering Strait will be built.
6. A permanent moon base will also be built, under the administration of the UN's successor.

And I could mention a number of other predictions, particularly about the future language landscape of the world — but at the same time I don't know to what extent I can call these "calling it now" predictions, anyways.