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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 originally compiled on the back of cocktail napkins at the Time Warp Bar & Grill in Sparks, Nevada. Please consider it accordingly.

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Artificial Intelligence

Intelligent machines
Computers that predict the future
Original music from software/machines
Computer mediators that resolve legal disputes
Superintelligence

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 - Cryogenic sleep
Human cloning
Virtual/robot medicine
Instant pain relief
Bionic implants to allow for extreme strength
Morphing of the human body
Age reversal
Creation of organisms
Synthetic organs
Enhanced senses
Alteration of our bodies in superhuman ways
Bionic limbs
Never have to sleep or eat
Use genes of other animals to implant in us
Artificial immune system
Computer generated life, e.g., design a tree, generate a seed, plant it in the ground and watch the tree grow
Creation of new animal and plant species by genetic manipulation

Brain

Download your memories/brain
Complete digital record of your life
Mind/emotion control devices
Dream control devices
Brain enhancement implants - memory, telepathy
Transfer of information into the visual cortex or subconscious mind
Artificial telekenesis - an implant to alter physical things with your mind.
Brain Transplants
Tapping into unused parts of the brain
Download training experience, e.g., someone could be able to fly a jet or guide a submarine.

Chemistry

Replication and/or transformation of one chemical element to another
Super lubricant
Artificial spider silk

City

Megacities/entire world is one city
Moving/floating/underwater cities
Underground cities
Cities/houses could be one huge organism which can repair itself
Self-constructing buildings, built on demand
Anti-seismic buildings

Communication

Instant information
Virtual presence
Wireless everything
One small mobile device does everything
Virtual reality
Internet-connection implant
All media (movies, tv shows, etc.) on-demand
Holographic messages
Language translator implants
Telepathy
Phone implant
A house phone which is a mobile when you leave the house with it

Computer

Computers equivalent to the human brain
Nanoscale computers everywhere
Optical computers
DNA computers
Quantum computers
Global network
Computers that animals can use
Self editing software
Faster than Light or Instant Data transfer
Laptops built in desks

Earth

Weather control
Abundant food and water supply from technology
Eco-manipulation (deserts into forests)
Production of precious materials like gold

Electronics

Printable/paintable/flexible/see-through electronics, screens, touch panels, solar panels
Invisible video/sensor surveillance
Holograms
Holographic tv on your wrist
Voice/brain command over computers and appliances
Contact lens displays
Glasses that can see different wavelengths
Nuclear powered devices
Holodecks
Nano devices
Intelligent jewelry, e.g., wristwatches that monitor blood pressure and pulse, necklace that measures brain activity.

Energy

Eco-friendly fuel
Unlimited renewable energy
Wireless energy
Energy force fields
Alternative nuclear energy (fusion, antimatter...)

Home

Printable/self constructing homes and buildings.
Eternal beer fountain (Uncle Walt's prediction)
Smart homes
Self washing, drying, and folding clothes
Intelligent/adaptable fabrics and clothing
Personalized ergonomics
Ultrasonic "showers"
Replicators
Hanging house

Nanotechnology

Manipulate matter at the atomic scale
Custom molecules

Intelligent/adaptable materials

Self replicating machines
Foglets/nanoswarms/grey goo
Desktop nano-factories build anything

Physics

Artificial black holes
Artificial worm holes
Traveling faster than light
Invisibility cloaks
Zero-point energy
The ability to tear a hole in space and time using singularities to create a 'door' from one part of the universe, or one time, to another

Robotics

Personal/care giving/cleaning robots
Nanobots
Robots perform majority of labor jobs
Robot partners (wife/husband)
Exoskeletons
Sentient robots
Robotic prosthetics
Robots controlled remotely with mind link
Security robots
Robots with a genetic code
Robotic cashiers

Society

Digital money
Language translators
Anti-technology groups
Transhumanism
Identification/credit card implant
Cashless society
Paperless society
Personalized advertising
Compatibility testers
Mental entertainment
Bio-identification
People can encode themselves and live in a computer's memory/program (matrix)

Space

Space elevator
Alien contact
Colonizing space
Planetary/terra formation (creating planets)
Orbital stations
Solar sails
Mining of the moon/planets/asteroids
Starships
Life on Mars
Control the rotation of the planets
Travel to other galaxies
Black hole generator

Transportation

Self-driving cars on smart-highways
Flying cars - Anti-gravity devices
Teleportation
Time machine
Inertia dampeners, anti acceleration or anti breaking devices
Ion or electromagnetic propulsion
Flying boots
Boots with turbo and wheels
Underground highways
Unmanned cargo ships
Transforming transportation, cars that fly, planes that swim, boats that go on land. 
Warp speed (traveling faster than light)
Use clothes to fly. Clothes fly to laundry.
Last update: 06/03/09
Added: Clothes fly, Robotic cashiers, mobile house phone..

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Controlling the Weather

New satellites, computers 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.

Future weather control

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

Asphalt Jungles


The homes and buildings in future cities will likely feature a good coat of green. In addition to being pleasing to the eye, designs of this nature can help a city stay cooler in the summer and reduce its carbon footprint.

Image from Archinect

15 Vertically Vegetated Buildings

Green Architecture

Best Green Houses

Vegetation Systems Atop Buildings Yield Multiple Environmental Benefits

terreform.org

The Bad News About Green Architecture

Vertical Park: Stackable Solar Skyscraper for Mexico City

The King of Green Architecture

Treedome

Green Roofs for Healthy Cities

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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 Articles and web sites

City 2.0

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

Terminator Too?

Notable persons in the fields of artificial intelligence, robotics, sci-fi and more comment on the probability of time travel, killer networks and robot takeovers. From H+ magazine.

Is A Terminator Scenario Possible?

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