Year 2089 - A series of predictions
As we all know; I've been endowed with sorcerous powers from the infernal plane. Please, hop on my carriage pulled by a dozen astral horses with hooves of smoke. Let us explore how our descendants will live their everyday lives on earth in the dark and distant year of 2089.
The cinema of 2089
The human chooses a genre, a setting, and some actors. A neural network trained with the complete filmography of humanity generates the chosen film in a few seconds and the human can watch a never-before-seen movie with AI-powered acting. The movie is generated with a seed, so the human can either watch the exact same movie multiple time and share the seed with their friends, or they could rewatch the same generated movie with a different seed to get slight variances that increase rewatchability.
Sports in 2089
Sports, a.k.a. environment training routines have continued to move into the digital space. Physical sports are now only performed by humans possessing a certain nostalgic or historic interest in archaic training routines. Digital training routines (e.g. computer games) can be generated on the fly the same way movies can. Humans can play against their friends even when they are not online since one-to-one level AI simulations of every person is available from a government-issued database. These simulated entities can talk, play, and behave exactly as the blueprint person would.
It is also possible to play against historical or famous AI representations. When I visited the year 2089 last week, I asked the steam™ network to generate a cowboy-themed first-person MMORPG. I played this game with two of my (then dead) childhood friends as well as with the deceased musician Snoop Dogg (formerly Snoop Lion).
Existential crises in 2089
One big downside with being able to create, modify, and merge human-level intelligence and consciousness is that there is no real way of knowing if you are actually just one instance of those artificially hosted beings. If you could create a synthetic copy of yourself, that is proof that somebody else could have done that too.
To make a convincing AI actor, it needs memories and a childhood. The synthetic mind of that simulation would need to have subjectively experienced a childhood. This is what is happening to you right now. You are a brain in a vat being fed a stream of synthetic sensory input to train you for a movie generated by some sadistic 14-year-old psychopath. Reading this fourth-wall-breaking text on a god-forsaken blog is the catalyst of the main story-event of your character.
Now if you excuse me, I have to run. I can hear the sirens of a "bladerunneresque" type vehicle threateningly orbiting my victorian abode. Au revoir!