What Next?
Old Moore’s Almanac has been around for more than 250 years, with its mix of features and the all-important predictions. So what does it say will happen in 2022? Read on…
If only we’d listened to Old Moore, we might have battened down the hatches and avoided the pandemic.
Yes, that’s right, Old Moore’s Almanac predicted a pandemic a year before it happened – along with drone pizza delivery and the rise of the digital currency Bitcoin.
So Old Moore’s prediction that there will be a second pandemic, unrelated to the first, is not good news. But maybe it’s a pandemic of happiness rather than pain.
What else is in store for us?
A GLOBAL NEW NORMAL
• Covid passports will be a way of life. Those who don’t want to have the vaccine will form their own communities and start whole new towns based around their values.
• Shaking hands and kissing will end as a greeting tradition, never to return.
• Robotics will take a lot of blue-collar work, but add on white collar work. This causes a big shift in society.
• Births stop outnumbering deaths in many places in the world.
• Marriage is on the wane everywhere in the world, with weddings being seen as quaint historical re-enactments.
• Men lose interest in university courses, and go for trades where they can get higher wages.
• Shops will start to reinvent themselves as more people shop online. They will be more places of leisure and entertainment, so places like Dunnes Stores will have a trampoline park in the middle for kids.
UPHEAVAL IN IRELAND
• We’re set for some fairly seismic events. Old Moore predicts a landslide, a giant wave and an earthquake, a heatwave, a drought, and a huge dump of snow.
• House prices will go even higher.
• On the plus side, a female Taoiseach is on the cards for Ireland within the next three years. She’s gearing up, an getting her alliances in order.
EUROPEAN AFFAIRS
• Terrorism, Old Moore predicts, will return to the European region.
• A shortages of items will cause panic and hoarding.
• There will be new taxes on junk food in for Europe.
• But the EU economy thrives, as does Britain’s, despite Brexit.
WORLD NEWS
• Kamala Harris, currently Vice President of the US, gears up to take over as president. But she will find herself besieged with significant political enemies.
• Donald Trump will make noises about running again, but insist that it will be conditional on what he regards as a fair election system.
• A tourist spaceship has an incident which makes world news.
• And we can expect some news about Malaysia’s missing flight MH370.
CELEBRITIES
• Harry and Meghan are in for some marriage peril. Harry wants to return to tradition and Meghan wants to embrace American values. It will be a rocky road all the way.
• Weird pets like obscure fox breeds will be in fashion, especially among celebrities. This will lead to a lot of controversy and debate.
• Rebel Wilson will become pregnant.
TECHNOLOGY
• Medical technology will astound in 2022, including breakthroughs in sight for visually impaired people and mobility for wheelchair users. Human augmentation starts – with a blending of human and technology to the point that it is part of our biology.
• Settlement on Mars becomes a reality, and planning starts. Get ready for docudramas to start around this theme.
• Virtual sex will become astoundingly realistic with new equipment, making long distance relationships a thing.
• Big data analytics are where the most lucrative careers will be.
MEDIA THEMES
• The backlash against far right and far left has started, and the usual topics fall by the wayside. A push back against overly hysterical news is also on the agenda.
• A news organisation gets busted paying a 'rent-a-crowd' to protest at every rally and march, with the aim to cause trouble for newsreel value. This method of “generating news” will be unmasked across the world as many organisations get found out. It will be back to basics for media companies across the world.
• There will be a new competitor to the big social media platforms, offering more freedom of speech.
SPORT
• Rafael Nadal and Naomi Osaka will win the Australian Open in tennis.
• France will win the Six Nations Cup in Rugby.
• In football Dublin will win back the Sam Maguire Cup.
• And Limerick will win the Hurling All Ireland final.
MONEY
• Paper money is finished. Cash will be a collector’s item very soon. And, the more obscure the money is, the more valuable it will be.
• Starting in 2022, the blockchain revolution will happen.
• The Euro breaks off into a crypto branch. Expect the Afro, and the CryptoRuble to be big currencies.
• Whole media channels will be dedicated to crypto news. There will be new university degrees around the blockchain economy. Spin off industries servicing cryptos will be lucrative. Educational crypto courses will also be on the cards if you are looking for a new career.
• Coding jobs around this industry will make stars of coders, generating big salaries.
• Sustainable data centres will be a big deal. Huge servers helping themselves to massive power requirements will be needed to run the blockchains. Places like Iceland can keep these servers cool naturally, plus can generate electricity from renewable sources like the volcanoes. Whole new industries await these icy economies.
• There are big changes for North Koreans. As the younger generation get access to outside influences via digital currencies, they will rise and resist. It will be short and messy, but revolution is coming.
• The new freedoms found in blockchain will cause uprisings as people can anonymously get hold of information and things that have been restricted by harsh governments. Music will also be shared via blockchain. As well as North Korea countries like China and some Middle Eastern countries will face civil unrest from better informed citizens.
• But a word of warning from Old Moore, stay away from crypto currency aligned to Facebook, it will be insecure and prone to hacking