It is curious that forecasts in the short term, as a rule, turn out to be very conservative - most people represent the future in the form of a slightly expanded version of the present. It seems to people that most of the major social transformations have either taken place or will take place in the distant future, but this is far from the truth. The world is changing faster than ever before, and a number of technologies that are already in active development will change it beyond recognition. Among them - self-driving cars and virtual reality.