wireless internet will be ubiquitous

smartphones will be ubiquitous

connecting to the internet will be ubiquitous

AR will become (as if it already isn't) ubiquitous -- with apps like Languages, Themes (want to see everything a la Noir, Lovecraft, Republican?)

shopping malls will have changed, everyone has their own Maker/3-D printer, to speciality shops for certain blueprints

we will all me modified intelligences of stardust

America will have been invaded at least once and become more gentle, losing a bit of that innocence

Islamism will have burnt itself out

a global ethics will have been more or less hammered out and for a soverign country to be franchised and able to enjoy the benefits of a global life, they have to agree to sign on it

the UN will actually have teeth, made of entities ("Devas") who owe their allegance to humanity. these entities will be either functional AIs or Buddhist-like warrior monks

Meditation will be part of the school curriculum

there will be a yearly global art olympics, where people will compete in various art forms...

everyone at birth will be reversibly infertile; to get fertile, they will have to take a course

there will be several moonbases; some of them will secede and become their own nation

there will be several competing currencies

there will be several competing internets

open spirituality will spread to the marketplace, so that people will have shops like "Thanes of Odin", "The Golden Apple Lounge" and "Xenu's Retreat"

starving, poverty & disabilities will be an art form

the # of Marxists will be reduced to a small Villa in Las Vegas

there will be biomod lounges where people can collect and share their biology hacks (will Apple come out with an iHack app?)

Virgin Megagalactic will have sent unhumaned probes to places like Alpha Centauri and have special parks

Via telepresence, the first person to dance on the surface of the sun will be broadcast live

sex change, species mods will be available as cosmetic modifications; bless you, stem cells

the new sport of asteroid surfing will be a hit

towels will become a vital and necessary space travel item

dolphins and chimps will be recognized as sentients and given human rights

Australia & NZ will become one nation to deal with the increasing droughts; Peter Jackson will become PM

there will be an increase of 'People of the World', people with no fixed country

the world's first photon-human conversation will happen

tours of the Astral, Etheral and Dream worlds will be given by trained professionals

Ideaspace will become a cultural thing, people being taught how to explore it

all of the Holy Books of the world will be translated into graphic novel form

a form of radioactive waste eating bacteria will have been discovered

Japan will adopt GMing and will move to somewhere safer; in orbit

Ray Bradbury will be found on Mars during the first human expedition

thedailygrail will become a not-for-profit organization
the DSM will have been gone for years now

some countries will have adopted GNH

they will finally find Jimmy Hoffa's body

it will turn out that JFK was just a future projection of that wavefunction collapsing entity, Jesus

the perfect cup of coffee will be served by Rancid Phlegm and Co-ordinated Presence, a couple living on an L3.14 colony

Putin's cynicism will finally crack, resulting in him breaking down on live telenet...he will then devote his life to living as a hermit, discovering his inner space and the resulting Ideaspace show will be very popular

Virtual places of worship and denominations will be commonplace

Now go wild, fellow sentients, what is YOUR vision of the year 2050?   Feel free to include poetry, vids, music, etc etc etc