5 years:
Practically everyone will have a smartphone and be constantly glued to some kind of technological device. Younger kids might have an MP3 player, but likely from age 12 upwards it'll be a phone they're glued to. People will want to be constantly connected to the internet or communicating with friends. Productivity will go down because no one can retain an attention span long enough to do it and there will be issues with trying to stop people from being so obsessive about it at work. Media news channels will be even more divided and people only watch the channel that depicts their political view of events, creating an even greater disconnect between different parties. The bias is not even subtle but actually obvious and people are easily blissfully unaware or aware but don't care because the bias matches their own. Both will think they're right and they're the only way and compromise will seem impossible, especially since no group is willing. The news will have lots of on-screen effects and graphics they can use to convey information, but most of it will be wasted on false data if used at all. Newscasters play the role of propaganda, trying to further convince viewers their bias is the right one and he only one.
15 years:
Phones will be starting to be replaced with computers in between the size of a smartphone and an ipad that just happen to have a phone feature, but it will likely be the least used feature of the device. There will be more electronic cars than before which are starting to gain some acceptance, but there will still be a sect that is hell-bent on keeping their gas-guzzling car, even though gas prices will be high. Some countries will be very modern and "green", with everything changed to be environmentally friend, while others (such as likely the US) have not really adapted or changed at all. Because some refuse to help make things better, conditions do not improve as much as others would like and those in denial use it as further evidence to prove their point ("You changed, but nothing's improved, so we were right in the first place not to do anything!") Those who've been trying will get upset about this and it will create dissonance between countries across the world, all of whom are trying to convince each other that they're right and the other wrong. Everyone is very much on edge.
50 years:
Those in denial of the world's problems have finally begun to dwindle thanks to old age taking its toll. There had been another world war, but by now the world is starting to recover. The countries which had been in the "denial" category before are starting to turn things around and the world is sharing a very enthusiastic spirit to change things. Things are looking better. The media has been reinvented - to remove the partisan bias, people have been removed from the telling of news system. Now all media is portrayed through videos, infographics, or strict data and fact. There is still people who report and write stories, but they are no longer mainstream. Everyone uses electric cars and we are far less dependent on oil, with it now only be used in areas which have yet to adapt but are in process of it.
