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Let’s do a survey on important matters for the 2020s… a thread of polls. Starting with the most important question of course: Poll: monsters of the decade
  • Vampires
    17.8%
  • Zombies
    44.2%
  • Dinosaurs
    14%
  • Godzilla/Kong-verse
    24%
878 votesFinal results
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Physical products like computers and cars will be
  • Smooth, curvy
    36.6%
  • Sharply angular
    28.6%
  • Chunky absolute units
    15.3%
  • Delicate, jewel-like
    19.5%
580 votesFinal results
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Clothing styles will be
  • Fanciful dreamlike colors
    25.9%
  • Glamorous, stylish
    14.9%
  • Apocalyptic grungy
    18.5%
  • Utilitarian, understated
    40.8%
557 votesFinal results
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Future of US
  • Renaissance, resurrection
    26.3%
  • Whimper, not a bang
    43.4%
  • Rightie hellhole
    16.4%
  • Leftie hellhole
    13.9%
574 votesFinal results
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Climate change future
  • Grimdark steady slide
    43.6%
  • Extreme breakdowns
    19.7%
  • Revealed to be hoax
    7.1%
  • Tech solves it all!
    29.7%
539 votesFinal results
1
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Future of China
  • Arrive at US-parity
    33.1%
  • Pro-democracy revolution
    6.2%
  • Empire quagmire
    44.2%
  • Centrifugal tear apart
    16.4%
513 votesFinal results
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Big corporations
  • Rule the world even more
    71.8%
  • Antitrust smashy smash
    13.4%
  • Grow a soul, do better
    4.2%
  • Collapse from corruption
    10.7%
524 votesFinal results
1
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Financialization and banking
  • Total control of game
    43.8%
  • Taken down by reddit etc
    8.6%
  • Bitcoin solves this
    17.9%
  • States strike back
    29.7%
498 votesFinal results
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Crypto
  • Rules world, solves all
    16.1%
  • Unravels from deep flaws
    23.4%
  • Climate shuts it down
    7.2%
  • Stays a sideshow
    53.3%
516 votesFinal results
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Woke
  • Collapses from flaws
    22.7%
  • Takes over world
    12.4%
  • Infinity war with Nazis
    25.1%
  • Dissipates from meh
    39.8%
498 votesFinal results
2
9
Nazi-fashy stuff
  • Collapses from flaws
    19.4%
  • Takes over world
    10.3%
  • Infinity war with woke
    32.1%
  • Dissipates from meh
    38.2%
448 votesFinal results
3
7
Universities and higher-ed
  • Renaissance
    4.3%
  • Structural reform
    23.2%
  • Stays the same
    34.2%
  • Eaten by online ed
    38.3%
462 votesFinal results
2
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News media/journalism
  • Integrity Renaissance
    7.2%
  • Gets profitably yellower
    35.4%
  • Financial collapse
    18.4%
  • Eaten by indie media
    38.9%
429 votesFinal results
2
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Social media
  • Post tiktok bizarro weird
    50.7%
  • Retro legible internet
    13.6%
  • Waldenponding drains it
    6.6%
  • Eternal September contd
    29.1%
412 votesFinal results
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Food for the middle classes
  • Simpler, more local
    23.1%
  • Exotic decadence
    10%
  • Processed grimness
    32.4%
  • Homemade comfort revival
    34.5%
411 votesFinal results
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Animal rights/factory farming biggest shift
  • Plant-based goes mainstrm
    44.5%
  • Plant-based collapses
    4.2%
  • Cruelty-free meat grows
    39.7%
  • Factory farming grows
    11.6%
380 votesFinal results
2
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Screen media
  • Streaming TV wins
    52.6%
  • Big screen movies win
    2.1%
  • Video games win
    25.5%
  • VR/AR win
    19.8%
384 votesFinal results
1
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Silicon Valley
  • Still leads tech
    21.5%
  • Financial center like NY
    24.5%
  • Steady decline
    43.4%
  • Calamitous decline
    10.6%
424 votesFinal results
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Health and fitness of world population
  • Fatter and sicker
    42.2%
  • Better and better
    24.7%
  • Fit west, sick rest
    12.9%
  • Sick west, fit rest
    20.2%
396 votesFinal results
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Overall trajectory
  • Gets better, feels worse
    44.9%
  • Gets worse, feels better
    11.3%
  • Gets worse, feels worse
    31%
  • Gets better, feels better
    12.8%
468 votesFinal results
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