Given that we’re making ourselves dumber through AI, education funding cuts, social media, and foolish propaganda AND the population is shrinking and everyone is seemingly depressed:
The most likely outcome is the world in the children’s cartoon “Thundarr the Barbarian”. People living in the collapsed ruins of the past society, belief in magic, etc.
A post-apocalyptic hellscape, essentially.
> People living in the collapsed ruins of the past society
Kind of feels like I was already born into that.