In no particular order: Many colleges were shut down during the bailouts and reforms. The college I went to wasn't a 'campus'. Many modern reputable colleges actually conduct classes in SMOs (shared micro office environments). These developed as a cottage industry in coastal cities and in the midwest after the college debt crisis caused numerous colleges to shut down and left a gap. It started as former teachers fed up with the college system and PC buggery (we use that phrase to mean 'witch hunts' today. It still angers the faggos). There were mass lay offs, teachers took to contracting the office space, working with investors and other teachers in a shared space, contracting out their classes, and modelling the environment after the university level courses (and full classes) often taught by the private tutor industry in south korea. Many of them teamed up with silicon valley and the other valley. Some of them early on were run by former community colleges but the ire from the debt bubble lead to popular support for massive regulations on who could run the universities. The quality is on par to universities circa 2021, post purge (no we didnt have an actual purge, though the movies do have a cult following today.) The purge followed from the debt crisis which basically ousted all the liberal professors and useless degree programs, along with the students that supported them. The democrats changed back to the party of "unions and bluecollar jobs", while also supporting the college debt bailouts, which moderate republicans warmed to. You'd be surprised at some of the names that 'went over' to the fucking liberals side. Netanyahu broke with trump in 2022 and it was a bitter end. Texas is royal purple and it's now called the 'flipflop state' and everyone fights for it in elections. Tesla was bought out. Germany has sunk massively in economic production, education, and infrastructure and though it's not as bad as people say, it's often called "little ukraine." Trump handled much of the immigration and illegal alien problem midway through his second term. The pension crisis basically didn't happen. There were massive bailouts of schools and the bankruptcy laws were changed to reflect that, and a lot of people with lifetimes of student loan debt absolutely ruined their credit to get out from under it. There was a scandal in Los Angeles so god damn huge it basically replaced our use of "gate" from watergate, with "bay" for bay area. NYC now has cops on hover bikes, I'm not kidding you. Cancer treatment is an out patient procedure today. We discovered and proved that some cancers are literally incurable with the established methods for certain fundamental reasons and took other approaches involving using donor cells taken from the patients to grow cell stocks for IMOR (in-situ manufactured organ replacement). We converted a lot of social welfare programs to UBI (a dirty word), though it's not called that. A ton of bureaucrats fought it, didn't want to lose their little fiefdoms in all the different benefits programs. Many states now have flat taxes and encourage savings. I was only a kid at the time so I don't remember the details but we went to war in iran, and to everyone's surprise we got lucky and didn't accidentally start ww3, though it very nearly came to that. Bitcoin is still a thing and still volatile but not like it used to be. And no it's not worth $10,000, or $100,000. It's stable and valuable enough that there are a wide variety of people who now make a living being paid solely in btc and it's successor. China went through a series of economic shocks, military reforms, and brief skirmishes and their construction industry is now owned almost entirely by foreign investors from the middle east. The FBI no longer exists as a department. Hillary Clinton died of an embolism due to complications from other health problems. Bill Clinton lived a while longer sipping fancy drinks on the beach after hillary passed. He died a while back from HIV. There are new regulations on wall street. Open carry is legal everywhere but two states after years of calling for a constitutional convention that never happened. Abortion is still legal unfortunately and is considered a great shame. We had a shit ton of terrorism in the 2020s till the mid 2030s. Everyones saying the election coming up will decide if cuba eventually becomes a state. Robotics is huge and still expensive, mostly because a new model or product comes out every year, the credit system is much more heavily regulated, and consequently everyone would "rather wait and save for next years model instead of buying something thats going to be out of date in a year or two." As a result not nearly as many jobs were lost as you would think. A lot of new jobs were created from the combination of human-level robotics freeing people from shit like dishwashing, and partial UBI. For example "Asset Development Specialists" work with automated tools to develop purchasable media assets (what people used to call 'DLC and market content'). Healthcare is WAY bigger than the 2010s, 2020s, and early 2030s, it's an order of magnitude. I can't even begin to explain to you how many jobs exist today that didn't exist decades ago, healthcare jobs that you couldn't imagine. There are people who's only job is "Elderly-Disabled User Experience Designer" (designing, and customizing technology and teaching the elderly how to use it). There are machine learning instructors/curators, and they're basically teachers and former professionals who fine tune each machine's understanding of a job. We have private one-man companies that maintain roads, the same way you might hire an uber in 2020. And people who's job it is to maintain roads *just* for optimized communities that serve healthcare. FYI 'optimized communities' is the term we replaced "smart cities" with, because marketing determined that everyone was fucking tired of the term 'smart'. Finally, the population of the united states is 392.6 million.