Business
36 predictions spanning 2026-2050
2026
- A major AI company publicly releases its AI agent
- Big tech reaches $100B AI revenue
- AI agents enter one-third of B2B payments by 2026
- Sellers face agent-led quote negotiations in 2026
- Ungoverned genAI costs B2B firms $10B in 2026
- Agency acquisition triggers a dozen reviews in 2026
- B2B influencer budgets rise in 2026
- CFOs gate AI investments in 2026
- CIOs bail out business-led AI failures in 2026
- CX teams abandon journey mapping in 2026
- Display ad budgets fall 30% in 2026
- Five major brands unify agentic commerce in 2026
- Human expertise rivals genAI for buyers in 2026
- One-third of consumers choose offline brand experiences in 2026
2027
- AI apps and B2B SaaS surge
- AI launches a compressed dot-com boom
- A major AI company publicly releases a cheap AGI
- Agent token and API loads rise 1000x by 2027
- Agentic automation reaches 40% of enterprise apps by 2027
- Global 2000 agent use increases tenfold by 2027
- Nearly 75% of companies adopt AI by 2027
- Over 40% of agentic AI projects are canceled by 2027
- Enterprises defer 25% of AI spend into 2027
- Poor AI-ready data cuts productivity 15% by 2027