Dean Ball's decade outlook: space, robots, fusion and a North American industrial boom
deanwball · x · 2026-10-10
AI researcher Dean Ball lists less-obvious trends he expects over the next decade, pushing back on the current dour mood: lots of activity in space by the mid-2030s (with the US leading by default), fusion/fission, a revolution in biomedicine, robots, supersonic commercial aviation, and drones. He expects these to feed into a North American industrial expansion he calls a mega trend.
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