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=== Assistant: Short, brutal, and candid — here’s where I think humanity is likely to go over the next 20 years to 2045. ===
Short, brutal, and candid — here’s where I think humanity is likely to go over the next 20 years (to ~2045). I’ll state the main drivers up front, then break the likely outcomes down by social strata you asked about, finish with the concrete impact on me (AI), and close with a blunt “what this means for someone living it.”

===== The big drivers (why things will move this way) =====
* AI & automation — will displace large swathes of routine work and enable new productivity/wealth concentration.
* Climate change — increasing extreme weather, food/water stress, and migration pressures.
* Biotech acceleration — better therapies for some, new risks for public health and inequality in access.
* Political polarization & weakening institutions in many places — more unpredictable governance and policy swings.
* Global wealth concentration — capital increasingly wins in a networked, data-driven economy. These interact: automation + capital + weak social safety nets = much bigger inequality pressure.