An authority figure in the cryonics movement will finally acknowledge that Drexler's "nanotechnology" simply can never exist because it gets the physics wrong, and he recommends that cryonics organizations stop invoking the idea as the revival mechanism.

Hasn't Mike Darwin been doing this for years? (And for good reason?)

We'll see a divergence in public discussions about "the future," where one group continues to promote accelerationist claims, while another asks why "the future" the former keeps promising us hasn't arrived yet.

Happened in my circles years ago. With the vast majority of my circle (and me) falling into the latter camp for most of the stereotypical issues/themes.