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Future Technology Predictions How far will technology advance in 20, 30, even 50 years from now? How will it affect our lives? Here are some technologies and scenarios predicted by science fiction writers, futurists, technology experts and my Uncle Walt, a retired house painter. Note: This list was compiled from unsubstantiated sources on the internet and one that was written on the back of a cocktail napkin at the Time Warp Bar & Grill in Sparks, Nevada. Please consider it accordingly. Future Technology Predictions Predictions made by visitors to Future For All are in Green Artificial Intelligence Intelligent machines Biology/biotechnology/medicine Extended/eternal life Synthetic life Repairing/manipulating DNA Organ replacement / growing organs Designer babies / designer bodies Personalized drugs Gene therapy/manipulation Biostasis Human cloning Virtual/robot medicine Abundant food and water supply from technology Instant pain relief Bionic implants to allow for extreme strength Morphing of the human body Brain Download your memories/brain Complete digital record of your life Mind/emotion control devices Brain enhancement implants - memory, telepathy Communication Instant information Virtual presence Virtual worlds Wireless everything One small mobile device does everything Internet-connection implant All media (movies, tv shows, etc.) on-demand Computer Computers equivalent to the human brain Global network Computers that animals can use Earth Weather control Electronics Printable/paintable/flexible/see-through electronics, screens, touch panels, solar panels Invisible video/sensor surveillance Holograms Voice/brain command over computers and appliances Energy Eco-friendly fuel Energy force fields Home Printable/self constructing smart homes and buildings. Eternal beer fountain (Uncle Walt's prediction) Moving/floating/underwater cities Self washing, drying, and folding clothes Intelligent/adaptable fabrics and clothing Personalized ergonomics Nanotechnology Manipulate matter at the atomic scale Custom molecules Nanoscale computers everywhere Intelligent/adaptable materials Self replicating machines Desktop nano-factories Physics Artificial black holes Experience new dimensions Robotics Personal/care giving/cleaning robots Society Digital money Language translators Anti-technology groups Transhumanism Identification/credit card implant Cashless society Paperless society Personalized advertising Space Space elevator Colonizing space Transportation Self-driving cars on smart-highways Flying cars - Anti-gravity devices Teleportation Time machine Last update: 07/1/08 Thanks to all that have sent in predictions. If you have a scenario or technology (please no weapon or military related predictions), send it to FFA by entering it here. You will not be asked for your name or to sign up to anything. I really couldn't care less who you are. Wait. That didn't come out right. I meant that I respect your privacy and I am not gathering information on you. :-) Thank you! Prediction

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Controlling the Weather

New satellites and high tech measuring equipment are helping scientists and researchers learn more about the weather patterns of the earth. By mid century you can expect more accurate weather predictions and eventually, controlling the weather itself.

Governments throughout the world are researching weather modification. The obvious benefits of controlling local weather would be to increase crop yields, decrease the severity of storms, raining on my neighbor's loud barbecue. There are also military uses, such as making sure the weather is clear for a mission or covering the enemy with snow, fog, hail or lightning strikes.

A far better use of weather modification would be if we could someday stop a hurricane like Katrina from ever reaching land. That would be a future to behold.

More weather control articles

Weather wars
Critters in the clouds
Controlling weather trends
Weather and the military

High School of the Future

This paper from Art Shostak, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Drexel University, takes you on a visionary tour of a 2015 public high school that emphasizes forward thinking.

Institute for the Future at Anne Arundel Community College

Brainstorming the Future

A Forbes article about 20 venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and Washington strategists that were asked to imagine life in the year 2050.

The Future is Not What it Used to Be

British Telecom futurologist Ian Pearson's job is to imagine where technology will lead us.

AI entity will win Nobel by 2020

Cities of the Future

Masdar City

Image courtesy of the Masdar Initiative

Abu Dhabi has broke ground on Masdar City, the world’s first zero-carbon, zero-waste, car-free city.

Masdar City

Communities on the Sea

The Seasteading Institute intends to create permanent dwellings on the ocean on floating platforms.

SeaSteading Institute

The Freedom Ship is a proposed community of up to 100,000 people living on a massive floating structure continually moving around the world.

FreedomShip

Cities of the Future web sites
Victory City - future city concept
Future city competition
transfuture.net
dynamiccity.org

Image courtesy of Transfuture.net

The Future of the Workplace

Imagine a work world with no commute, no corporate headquarters and perhaps not even an office in the physical world at all.

The Future of the Workplace