People will be happier, but I can't predict why.
India won't have progressed in a significant manner. Corruption will be as rampant as ever, and Hindutva will still be the prevailing ideology. The youth will try to protest in ..certain ways, but they will not be successful in bringing about the change they would like. Mumbai will be one step closer to being a dead city. Bangalore won't be its successor. The higher education system will not become better in any meaningful way but the importance of IIT/NITs will have slightly declined. For most students they will remain the only option.
Tech jobs will have lost their allure due to oversaturation in India. We will see a funding winter in 2030-2033. We will see more skeptics.
the shift is happening. soon, india will lead in creating solutions tailored to its needs, not copying silicon valley. UPI and ONDC prove this innovative spirit.
More dysfunctional politics, more geopolitical (inter-state) friction, more weather, more inequality, more housing crisis, more suicides, more siloing. More HR, more surveillance. More PV electricity farms, not as many more EVs as optimists were predicting last year. Ditto robots. Fewer opinion writers masquerading as journalists, I hope. Worse infrastructure, more oppressive laws controlling action and speech.
If you need/want more screens, you’ll wear glasses that simulate them.
Building desktop motherboards may become a bad idea, economically, given that the large cloud providers all build their own boards.
Also cryptocurrency will be regulated after another wave of scams, the MCU will stop churning out movies, we'll see some interesting innovations in CISC architecture, and probably will see global decreases in fossil fuels usage.
At the very least, I wouldn't be surprised if we have something akin to Gibson's "Turing Police" by then, whether or not they are in fact needed.
VR/AR Spring finally arrives; Apple Vision 6 SE is a satisfying mass product for under $600.