We'll see.
Going "all" the way back to the beginning of 2024, I predicted the beginning of the end of websites. And I think it's safe to say that with the huge drive towards AI-assisted coding that saw a huge surge in 2025 - even from the central players like Microsoft and Anthropic - at least the end of building websites "the old way" is or SHOULD be long gone.
I did a LinkedIn post on this a while back, since the summer of 2025 brought a personal era to a grinding halt: WordPress has been not just central, but instrumental in my digital toolbelt for a very, very... very long time. I still love WP, but the last 10+ things I've built have been with other tech stacks, all AI-assisted coding. Heck, even my own one-pager website dejliglama.dk — which has been my WP calling card for ages is now a replit.com-powered AI thing, built entirely based on my LinkedIn profile and a few prompts!
I did a LinkedIn post on this a while back, since the summer of 2025 brought a personal era to a grinding halt: WordPress has been not just central, but instrumental in my digital toolbelt for a very, very... very long time. I still love WP, but the last 10+ things I've built have been with other tech stacks, all AI-assisted coding. Heck, even my own one-pager website dejliglama.dk — which has been my WP calling card for ages is now a replit.com-powered AI thing, built entirely based on my LinkedIn profile and a few prompts!
And we're not done with 2024 just yet, because AI chatbots HAVE in 2025 really overtaken Google searches, so much so that all major search platforms now mix in AI answers to your "searches". Which means - and this is not a prediction, just a statement: search is dead, since we now ask questions or begin dialogs instead of our "librarian style" inputs, and ultimately that will lead to fewer visits to your website.
In terms of 2025, I didn't hit any of my predictions on the dot. There ARE AI regulatory talks, but all of this is hampered by the Trump era we're in, and old-fashioned me-me-me and land-ownership stuff stand in the way for AI and Quantum arms races to really make an impact. Sure, it has progressed, but not in any exponential way that has hit the consumer market.
Perhaps one thing that has got more traction in the last part of 2025 is decentralized SoMe platforms, but we call it Digital Sovereignty, and it's more about where data is geographically and who can access it than true decentralisation — and then Jack Dorsey launched Bitchat in January 2026 🤩
SO 2026, what do you have in store for us?
- European SoMe sovereignty push — I'm quite sure we're going to see a real attempt for Europe to move its citizens onto European-controlled social platforms. This will be led by people like Margrethe Vestager, and it will take many high-profile and possibly also governmental powers to help the movement grow big enough for a pivot to happen. I'm focusing on SoMe because let's face it, that's where the average Joe spends 80+% of their internet hours during a year. The other 20% is work-related, and there's simply too much structural debt in companies to shift to any of the current alternatives to Microsoft or Apple — attempts will be made, and have been made, but the alternatives aren't mature yet.
- UBI on hold — I'm losing my mind over UBI, but I must at least for 2026 give up on the idea, since it's not viable in the middle of a possible shift in the world order to start having discussions about people's money.
- Hyperlocal business boom — Because of the uncertainties we face right now, I think 2026 will be a year where even more hyperlocal businesses up their game. It might be supported by tech, but the driver is the global uncertainties. The need to support a local community to see it thrive is not just for the hippies anymore.
- Death talk goes mainstream — Not just because January 2026 is the official first month of existence for my death-tech company, but 2025 has reminded the world of people of our mortality, and therefore, we will start talking about death much more openly. I hope so anyway... please visit: PS. I love you -psilyou.com ...
- Rethinking international security architecture — Given the almost-collapse of NATO in January 2026, talks about a "world police" will start to emerge as a new all-nations-included, no-one-left-out body to prevent any new territorial infringements on a global scale. A bit like - but not run entirely by the US - Team America: World Police. But since that's wack, I think instead talks of removing the veto right in NATO and other inter-state organisations will emerge.
/Kåre