23 incredible new technologies you’ll see by 2021

By On October 17, 2011 · 252 Comments

Down the cybernetic rabbit hole we go. Photo by Harold Hoyer.

The Maya said we’re due for a shake-up soon. Turns out, they were right.

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WHEN LOOKING AT THE present as an indication of where we’ll stand a year from now–much less a decade–feeling optimistic may not come easy. We look out to the universe and see an infinite, lifeless abyss enfolding upon our own small pocket of civilization, while the people we look to for guidance and information seem to be little more than straight-faced bearers of bad news.

Yet while we can’t predict what the future holds for our unending political discourses, we can look at how far we’ve come with technology in merely the last decade and realize the present we know now will, very soon, find itself memorialized in nostalgia. Here’s some technology emerging down the road that’s poised to change your life on a much greater scale than any outcome of a political debate.

2012

Ultrabooks – The last two years have been all about the tablet. Laptops, with their “untouchable” screens, have yet to match any tablet’s featherweight portability and zippy response times. However, by next year, ultraportable notebooks–Ultrabooks–will finally be available for under $1000, bringing a complete computing experience into areas of life which, until now, have only been partially filled by smaller technologies such as tablets and smartphones. They weigh around three pounds, measure less than an inch thick, and the hard drives are flash-based, which means they’ll have no moving parts, delivering zippy-quick startups and load times.

The Mars Science Laboratory – By August 2012, the next mission to Mars will reach the Martian surface with a new rover named Curiosity focusing on whether Mars could ever have supported life, and whether it might be able to in the future. Curiosity will be more than 5 times larger than the previous Mars rover, and the mission will cost around $2.3 billion — or just about one and a half New Yankee Stadiums.

The Brain Cap, from U of Maryland.

The paralyzed will walk. But, perhaps not in the way that you’d imagine. Using a machine-brain interface, researchers are making it possible for otherwise paralyzed humans to control neuroprostheses–essentially mechanical limbs that respond to human thought–allowing them to walk and regain bodily control. The same systems are also being developed for the military, which one can only assume means this project won’t flounder due to a lack of funding.

2013

The Rise of Electronic Paper – Right now, e-paper is pretty much only used in e-readers like the Kindle, but it’s something researchers everywhere are eager to expand upon. Full-color video integration is the obvious next step, and as tablet prices fall, it’s likely newspapers will soon be fully eradicated from their current form. The good news: less deforestation, and more user control over your sources.

4G will be the new standard in cell phone networks. What this means: your phone will download data about as fast as your home computer can. While you’ve probably seen lots of 4G banter from the big cell providers, it’s not very widely available in most phones. However, both Verizon and the EU intend to do away with 3G entirely by 2013, which will essentially bring broadband-level speeds to wireless devices on cell networks. It won’t do away with standard internet providers, but it will bring “worldwide WiFi” capabilities to anyone with a 4G data plan.

The Eye of Gaia, a billion-pixel telescope will be sent into space this year to begin photographing and mapping the universe on a scale that was recently impossible. With the human eye, one can see several thousand stars on a clear night; Gaia will observe more than a billion over the course of its mission–about 1% of all the stars in the Milky Way. As well, it will look far beyond our own galaxy, even as far as the end of the (observable) universe.

2014

A 1 Terabyte SD Memory Card probably seems like an impossibly unnecessary technological investment. Many computers still don’t come with that much memory, much less SD memory cards that fit in your digital camera. Yet thanks to Moore’s Law we can expect that the 1TB SD card will become commonplace in 2014, and increasingly necessary given the much larger swaths of data and information that we’re constantly exchanging every day (thanks to technologies like memristors and our increasing ever-connectedness). The only disruptive factor here could be the rise of cloud-computing, but as data and transfer speeds continue to rise, it’s inevitable that we’ll need a physical place to store our digital stuff.

The first around-the-world flight by a solar-powered plane will be accomplished by now, bringing truly clean energy to air transportation for the first time. Consumer models are still far down the road, but you don’t need to let your imagination wander too far to figure out that this is definitely a game-changer. Consider this: it took humans quite a few milennia to figure out how to fly; and only a fraction of that time to do it with solar power.

The Solar Impulse, to be flown around the world. Photo by Stephanie Booth

The world’s most advanced polar icebreaker is currently being developed as a part of the EU’s scientific development goals and is scheduled to launch in 2014. As global average temperatures continue to climb, an understanding and diligence to the polar regions will be essential to monitoring the rapidly changing climates–and this icebreaker will be up to the task.

$100 personal DNA sequencing is what’s being promised by a company called BioNanomatrix, which the company founder Han Cao has made possible through his invention of the ‘nanofluidic chip.’ What this means: by being able to cheaply sequence your individual genome, a doctor could biopsy a tumor, sequence the DNA, and use that information to determine a prognosis and prescribe treatment for less than the cost of a modern-day x-ray. And by specifically inspecting the cancer’s DNA, treatment can be applied with far more specific–and effective–accuracy.

2015

The world’s first zero-carbon, sustainable city in the form of Masdar City will be initially completed just outside of Abu Dhabi. The city will derive power solely from solar and other renewable resources, offer homes to more than 50,000 people.

Personal 3D Printing is currently reserved for those with extremely large bank accounts or equally large understandings about 3D printing; but by 2015, printing in three dimensions (essentially personal manufacturing) will become a common practice in the household and in schools. Current affordable solutions include do-it-yourself kits like Makerbot, but in four years it should look more like a compact version of the uPrint. Eventually, this technology could lead to technologies such as nanofabricators and matter replicators–but not for at least a few decades.

2016

Space tourism will hit the mainstream. Well, sorta. Right now it costs around $20-30 million to blast off and chill at the International Space Station, or $200,000 for a sub-orbital spaceflight from Virgin Galactic. But the market is growing faster than most realize: within five years, companies like Space Island, Galactic Suite, and Orbital Technologies may realize their company missions, with space tourism packages ranging from $10,000 up-and-backs to $1 million five-night stays in an orbiting hotel suite.

The sunscreen pill will hit the market, protecting the skin as well as the eyes from UV rays. By reverse-engineering the way coral reefs shield themselves from the sun, scientists are very optimistic about the possibility, much to the dismay of sunscreen producers everywhere.

Back from extinction. Image by JenJeff.

A Wooly Mammoth will be reborn among other now-extinct animals in 2016, assuming all goes according to the current plans of Japan’s Riken Center for Developmental Biology. If they can pull it off, expect long lines at Animal Kingdom.

2017

Portable laser pens that can seal wounds – Imagine you’re hiking fifty miles from the nearest human, and you slip, busting your knee wide open, gushing blood. Today, you might stand a chance of some serious blood loss–but in less than a decade you might be carrying a portable laser pen capable of sealing you back up Wolverine-style.

2018

Light Peak technology, a method of super-high-data-transfer, will enable more than 100 Gigabytes per second–and eventually whole terabytes per second–within everyday consumer electronics. This enables the copying of entire hard drives in a matter of seconds, although by this time the standard hard drive is probably well over 2TB.

Insect-sized robot spies aren’t far off from becoming a reality, with the military currently hard at work to bring Mission Impossible-sized tech to the espionage playground. Secret weapon: immune to bug spray.

2019

The average PC has the power of the human brain. According to Ray Kurzweil, who has a better grip on the future than probably anyone else, the Law of Accelerating Returns will usher in an exponentially greater amount of computing power than every before.

The Web Within Us. Image by Anna Lena Schiller.

Web 3.0 – What will it look like? Is it already here? It’s always difficult to tell just where we stand in terms of technological chronology. But if we assume that Web 1.0 was based only upon hyperlinks, and Web 2.0 is based on the social, person-to-person sharing of links, then Web 3.0 uses a combination of socially-sourced information, curated by a highly refined, personalizable algorithm (“they” call it the Semantic Web). We’re already in the midst of it, but it’s still far from its full potential.

Energy from a fusion reactor has always seemed just out of reach. It’s essentially the process of producing infinite energy from a tiny amount of resources, but it requires a machine that can contain a reaction that occurs at over 125,000,000 degrees. However, right now in southern France, the fusion reactor of the future is being built to power up by 2019, with estimates of full-scale fusion power available by 2030.

2020

Crash-proof cars have been promised by Volvo, to be made possible by using radar, sonar, and driver alert systems. Considering automobile crashes kill over 30,000 people in the U.S. per year, this is definitely a welcome technology.

2021

So, what should we expect in 2021? Well, 10 years ago, what did you expect to see now? Did you expect the word “Friend” to become a verb? Did you expect your twelve-year-old brother to stay up texting until 2am? Did you expect 140-character messaging systems enabling widespread revolutions against decades-old dictatorial regimes?

The next 10 years will be an era of unprecedented connectivity; this much we know. It will build upon the social networks, both real and virtual, that we’ve all played a role in constructing, bringing ideas together that would have otherwise remained distant, unknown strangers. Without twitter and a steady drip of mainstream media, would we have ever so strongly felt the presence of the Arab Spring? What laughs, gasps, or loves, however fleeting, would have been lost if not for Chatroulette? Keeping in mind that as our connections grow wider and more intimate, so too will the frequency of our connectedness, and as such, your own understanding of just what kinds of relationships are possible will be stretched and revolutionized as much as any piece of hardware.

Truly, the biggest changes we’ll face will not come in the form of any visible technology; the changes that matter most, as they always have, will occur in those places we know best but can never quite see: our own hearts and minds.

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  • http://wayworded.blogspot.com/ Hal Amen

    The tech consumer in me is pretty excited about ultrabooks, epaper, and 3d printing.

    Thanks Jason, lots to daydream about here.

  • Erika S

    Although some of this stuff would be handy and progressive, the thought of all this technology actually kind of scares me :/.

    • aerie

      Why does progressive technology scare you? What is so scary?

    • aerie

      Why does progressive technology scare you? What is so scary?

    • aerie

      Why does progressive technology scare you? What is so scary?

    • aerie

      Why does progressive technology scare you? What is so scary?

    • aerie

      Why does progressive technology scare you? What is so scary?

  • Erika S

    Although some of this stuff would be handy and progressive, the thought of all this technology actually kind of scares me :/.

  • Anonymous

    How exciting. Now if only we would all grow up a bit more and handle these devices maturely– as tools and not as toys–we’d be well on our way to a brilliant future.

  • Anonymous

    How exciting. Now if only we would all grow up a bit more and handle these devices maturely– as tools and not as toys–we’d be well on our way to a brilliant future.

    • http://twitter.com/fathorseharry Harry Cunningham

      If we could all stop fighting over resources and abandon religion perhaps we can really start to progress as a species.

      • Samwise

        Strange, all this talk of progress. When we know so little of where we’re progressing toward. A community based on science as truth and guiding light; the new religion, don’t you agree? Even so, searching for the final answer written in the stars beats being told that it can only be read in a Book. Haha! The irony!

        • Heywood

          Science is not a religion. Religions rely on their followers to have faith in what they can’t prove. Science only asks that you believe what the facts are at the moment, and feel free to challenge them if you will. For unlike religion, if you can prove a scientific fact to be incorrect, then the science changes. As Isaac Asimov said ” The most exciting phrase to hear in science is not ‘Eurkea!’ (I found it!) but ‘That’s funny…”

          • http://www.facebook.com/korialstasz Kai Chung

            [Heywood] You are basing this argument on a flawed idea of science. There are myriad problems with calling science “proveable.” I’ll give you just one: have you ever seen an electron? The answer: no, no one has ever seen an electron. We assume that these things called electrons exist (because we have instruments that tell us they do), and based on this fundamental axiom we can then use logic (usually in the form of math) to “prove” other things. But at its core science is based on unproveable axioms just as much as religion is. The entire Standard Model of Quantum Mechanics is based on the existence of the so called “God particle” — the Higgs Boson — which has NEVER been observed to exist. So how can we say that science is “truth” when the VAST MAJORITY of it is based on statistical models and approximations? We ASSUME that the speed of light is the ultimate and maximum speed limit of the universe (this comes from Einstein’s theory of General Relativity) and yet we cannot PROVE it to be so, and even now we are getting data that suggests that this tenet of “science” long held by scientists might not be true (faster than light neutrinos, granted the data is sketchy). 

            The problem of science is that it is NOT fundamentally PROVEable, only DISproveable: You have to start with an assumption to get anywhere: for example, I assume that my senses give me accurate information as to the reality around me, and that the instruments I use to make measurements are doing what I think they’re doing and not just what I want them to be doing. Philosophers cannot even prove that there is more than one consciousness (see Solipsism), how can anyone say that we can PROVE that science is correct? I am an undergraduate senior studying Physics and Philosophy, I am an aspiring “scientist” and I truly believe that “science” (a catch phrase empty of any real meaning, I am more so referring to “the study of reality”) has a lot to teach us. I am not a religious person by any means whatsoever, and I used to consider myself atheist, but the more I study science and religions the more I understand that they are not fundamentally different. Both are descriptions of reality, they merely use different languages to describe it. You cannot merely abolish religion completely on the grounds that science is “better;” that would be unscientific! What you are doing is saying “there are certain people (who I refer to as “religious”) who are perfectly willing to accept whatever their priest tells them is the truth and THAT is religion, and we should get rid of that.” I wholeheartedly agree that people should not be so willing to accept on faith whatever someone tells them to be true. But you have to start with faith (your basic axioms) before you can develop any meaningful conception of Truth. The Buddha told his disciples, “do not believe anything that I say, go out and learn it to be true yourself.” A true scientist would never adopt such a narrow and minute view of reality as to say “I believe X and everything else should just be thrown out,” because the quest of the scientist is the same as the quest of the pious, to discover Truth and understand why we are able to say the words “I exist.”

        • Terry

          Ohhhh snap, you just got owned by Heywood. How does it feel? HOW DOES IT FEEL?!?!?

          • avenja

            I’m not trying to turn this into a pissing contest but religion is never going to disappear. It will always be around in some form or another.  I’m not religious myself, but I do have the decency not to tell people their religion should be done away with or that its foolish, because that’s their own choice and right as a human being. I hate it so much whenever people tell me the things i believe in (or don’t believe in) are wrong that I wouldn’t want to do that to another human being because then I am no better than the crazy religious zealots. If we are ever going to progress as a race then we will have to learn to accept one another and stop trying to “wipe out” religion or lack thereof. Science and religion must exist in a healthy balance for the good of the human race. Another thing we need to realize is that religion doesn’t always correlate with ethics. There are good people who are religious and good people who aren’t religious; just as there are evil people who are religious and evil people who aren’t religious.  

            Also, i enjoyed the article.

          • Maxx hill

            you literally just hit the nail on the head, why can’t there be more people like you?

          • Maxx hill

            you literally just hit the nail on the head, why can’t there be more people like you?

        • Terry

          Ohhhh snap, you just got owned by Heywood. How does it feel? HOW DOES IT FEEL?!?!?

        • Terry

          Ohhhh snap, you just got owned by Heywood. How does it feel? HOW DOES IT FEEL?!?!?

        • Terry

          Ohhhh snap, you just got owned by Heywood. How does it feel? HOW DOES IT FEEL?!?!?

      • Anonymous

        I think progress is always happening. It’s kind of inevitable: when we don’t adapt we end up destroying ourselves.

      • ponderous1ness

        what if religion is all there is to be resource full of , while resources prove irrelevant beyond belief they might be worth fighting for ? 

  • Anonymous

    How exciting. Now if only we would all grow up a bit more and handle these devices maturely– as tools and not as toys–we’d be well on our way to a brilliant future.

  • no

    you forgot the whole japan putting a ring on the moon for energy

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bruce-Miller/100000952005408 Bruce Miller

    Unmanned H2 Zeppelins for freight transport over the Canadian Tundra to mine sites, oil wells there and This civilization powered by Chinese re-engineered Thorium fueled LFTR- reactors, http://www.theoildrum.com/node/4971  Folks working at home, telecommuting, and whole office systems designed expressly for this, saving fuel and wear and tear on cars, decongesting road, unlocking grid-lock. Electric cars, much smaller, slower, safer, cheaper to build, maintain, ’3 moving part’ engines, rechargeable, rebuildable,  recyclable battery packs, hemp fiber bodies that do not rust. Communal Wind Turbine, Solar, Geothermal, anaerobic sewage digestors, Zero maintenance, Zero upkeep, zero energy homes of sustainable realistic size in the communities. Schooling by telecommute for these remote situations, Cities shrinking, giving away to remote communal units. Irradiated foods keeping ‘on the shelf” without expensive refrigeration. Artificial foods, Super-insulation’s like Areogels, in common use. Commercial farming in environmentally friendly fashion, by law, by regulation.Refrigeration break-through, likened only to the monumental Einstein cycle, providing almost free, Solar or Wind electric proves quite adequate. humanure considered a valued resource flow, new bacteria turn it to useful energy, fertilizer cheaply, quickly. government spending monitored by super intelligent computers,  programs, flagging all suspicious items broadcasting them to all, Diets drastically altered, by scientific discoveries, revolutionizing even Factory Farms, smaller bodied fast thinking, energetic humans will replace the larger folk, now unsustainable and unneeded. Elderly working well past current retirement age, mostly by telecommute from homes, some even part-time. Motherhood relived by earlier full day pre-schooling, kindergartens, designed to free women, correctly raise children, un-bending, detecting, curing, criminal tendencies, anti-social behaviors, saving society fortunes in policing and incarceration later on. Breeding “licenses”for stricter, selective breeding, population control, – even testing before birth. Deep sea “Farms”, “Mines”, made possible by safer Thorium LFTR reactors from China, Hemp laws revised, hemp seed common source of Omega 3′s, fiber for buildings as ‘paper’ world all but disappears, Huge numbers of BSc grads, all striving towards mankind’s healthy survival, with Capitalism/Corporatism and the “drive” for ROI alone, gone from the face of the earth. Super-humans from China, product of a search of the entire Asian gene pool for the brightest minds, and a breeding process, much as done for Panda’s there – IQ’s beyond American measurement capabilities. Uranium banned as a fuel for fission, replaced by safer Thorium. Pan-Eurasian Empire rules the world with scientific basis, not the “profit motive, not religious notions, America paradigm shifts, morphs, molds and complies – not a shot fired. America sees Chinese designed Thorium-LFTR reactor /electricity powering Chinese bullet trains on the north American continent, replacing jet fuel intensive flying.  

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bruce-Miller/100000952005408 Bruce Miller

    Unmanned H2 Zeppelins for freight transport over the Canadian Tundra to mine sites, oil wells there and This civilization powered by Chinese re-engineered Thorium fueled LFTR- reactors, http://www.theoildrum.com/node/4971  Folks working at home, telecommuting, and whole office systems designed expressly for this, saving fuel and wear and tear on cars, decongesting road, unlocking grid-lock. Electric cars, much smaller, slower, safer, cheaper to build, maintain, ’3 moving part’ engines, rechargeable, rebuildable,  recyclable battery packs, hemp fiber bodies that do not rust. Communal Wind Turbine, Solar, Geothermal, anaerobic sewage digestors, Zero maintenance, Zero upkeep, zero energy homes of sustainable realistic size in the communities. Schooling by telecommute for these remote situations, Cities shrinking, giving away to remote communal units. Irradiated foods keeping ‘on the shelf” without expensive refrigeration. Artificial foods, Super-insulation’s like Areogels, in common use. Commercial farming in environmentally friendly fashion, by law, by regulation.Refrigeration break-through, likened only to the monumental Einstein cycle, providing almost free, Solar or Wind electric proves quite adequate. humanure considered a valued resource flow, new bacteria turn it to useful energy, fertilizer cheaply, quickly. government spending monitored by super intelligent computers,  programs, flagging all suspicious items broadcasting them to all, Diets drastically altered, by scientific discoveries, revolutionizing even Factory Farms, smaller bodied fast thinking, energetic humans will replace the larger folk, now unsustainable and unneeded. Elderly working well past current retirement age, mostly by telecommute from homes, some even part-time. Motherhood relived by earlier full day pre-schooling, kindergartens, designed to free women, correctly raise children, un-bending, detecting, curing, criminal tendencies, anti-social behaviors, saving society fortunes in policing and incarceration later on. Breeding “licenses”for stricter, selective breeding, population control, – even testing before birth. Deep sea “Farms”, “Mines”, made possible by safer Thorium LFTR reactors from China, Hemp laws revised, hemp seed common source of Omega 3′s, fiber for buildings as ‘paper’ world all but disappears, Huge numbers of BSc grads, all striving towards mankind’s healthy survival, with Capitalism/Corporatism and the “drive” for ROI alone, gone from the face of the earth. Super-humans from China, product of a search of the entire Asian gene pool for the brightest minds, and a breeding process, much as done for Panda’s there – IQ’s beyond American measurement capabilities. Uranium banned as a fuel for fission, replaced by safer Thorium. Pan-Eurasian Empire rules the world with scientific basis, not the “profit motive, not religious notions, America paradigm shifts, morphs, molds and complies – not a shot fired. America sees Chinese designed Thorium-LFTR reactor /electricity powering Chinese bullet trains on the north American continent, replacing jet fuel intensive flying.  

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bruce-Miller/100000952005408 Bruce Miller

    Unmanned H2 Zeppelins for freight transport over the Canadian Tundra to mine sites, oil wells there and This civilization powered by Chinese re-engineered Thorium fueled LFTR- reactors, http://www.theoildrum.com/node/4971  Folks working at home, telecommuting, and whole office systems designed expressly for this, saving fuel and wear and tear on cars, decongesting road, unlocking grid-lock. Electric cars, much smaller, slower, safer, cheaper to build, maintain, ’3 moving part’ engines, rechargeable, rebuildable,  recyclable battery packs, hemp fiber bodies that do not rust. Communal Wind Turbine, Solar, Geothermal, anaerobic sewage digestors, Zero maintenance, Zero upkeep, zero energy homes of sustainable realistic size in the communities. Schooling by telecommute for these remote situations, Cities shrinking, giving away to remote communal units. Irradiated foods keeping ‘on the shelf” without expensive refrigeration. Artificial foods, Super-insulation’s like Areogels, in common use. Commercial farming in environmentally friendly fashion, by law, by regulation.Refrigeration break-through, likened only to the monumental Einstein cycle, providing almost free, Solar or Wind electric proves quite adequate. humanure considered a valued resource flow, new bacteria turn it to useful energy, fertilizer cheaply, quickly. government spending monitored by super intelligent computers,  programs, flagging all suspicious items broadcasting them to all, Diets drastically altered, by scientific discoveries, revolutionizing even Factory Farms, smaller bodied fast thinking, energetic humans will replace the larger folk, now unsustainable and unneeded. Elderly working well past current retirement age, mostly by telecommute from homes, some even part-time. Motherhood relived by earlier full day pre-schooling, kindergartens, designed to free women, correctly raise children, un-bending, detecting, curing, criminal tendencies, anti-social behaviors, saving society fortunes in policing and incarceration later on. Breeding “licenses”for stricter, selective breeding, population control, – even testing before birth. Deep sea “Farms”, “Mines”, made possible by safer Thorium LFTR reactors from China, Hemp laws revised, hemp seed common source of Omega 3′s, fiber for buildings as ‘paper’ world all but disappears, Huge numbers of BSc grads, all striving towards mankind’s healthy survival, with Capitalism/Corporatism and the “drive” for ROI alone, gone from the face of the earth. Super-humans from China, product of a search of the entire Asian gene pool for the brightest minds, and a breeding process, much as done for Panda’s there – IQ’s beyond American measurement capabilities. Uranium banned as a fuel for fission, replaced by safer Thorium. Pan-Eurasian Empire rules the world with scientific basis, not the “profit motive, not religious notions, America paradigm shifts, morphs, molds and complies – not a shot fired. America sees Chinese designed Thorium-LFTR reactor /electricity powering Chinese bullet trains on the north American continent, replacing jet fuel intensive flying.  

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bruce-Miller/100000952005408 Bruce Miller

    Unmanned H2 Zeppelins for freight transport over the Canadian Tundra to mine sites, oil wells there and This civilization powered by Chinese re-engineered Thorium fueled LFTR- reactors, http://www.theoildrum.com/node/4971  Folks working at home, telecommuting, and whole office systems designed expressly for this, saving fuel and wear and tear on cars, decongesting road, unlocking grid-lock. Electric cars, much smaller, slower, safer, cheaper to build, maintain, ’3 moving part’ engines, rechargeable, rebuildable,  recyclable battery packs, hemp fiber bodies that do not rust. Communal Wind Turbine, Solar, Geothermal, anaerobic sewage digestors, Zero maintenance, Zero upkeep, zero energy homes of sustainable realistic size in the communities. Schooling by telecommute for these remote situations, Cities shrinking, giving away to remote communal units. Irradiated foods keeping ‘on the shelf” without expensive refrigeration. Artificial foods, Super-insulation’s like Areogels, in common use. Commercial farming in environmentally friendly fashion, by law, by regulation.Refrigeration break-through, likened only to the monumental Einstein cycle, providing almost free, Solar or Wind electric proves quite adequate. humanure considered a valued resource flow, new bacteria turn it to useful energy, fertilizer cheaply, quickly. government spending monitored by super intelligent computers,  programs, flagging all suspicious items broadcasting them to all, Diets drastically altered, by scientific discoveries, revolutionizing even Factory Farms, smaller bodied fast thinking, energetic humans will replace the larger folk, now unsustainable and unneeded. Elderly working well past current retirement age, mostly by telecommute from homes, some even part-time. Motherhood relived by earlier full day pre-schooling, kindergartens, designed to free women, correctly raise children, un-bending, detecting, curing, criminal tendencies, anti-social behaviors, saving society fortunes in policing and incarceration later on. Breeding “licenses”for stricter, selective breeding, population control, – even testing before birth. Deep sea “Farms”, “Mines”, made possible by safer Thorium LFTR reactors from China, Hemp laws revised, hemp seed common source of Omega 3′s, fiber for buildings as ‘paper’ world all but disappears, Huge numbers of BSc grads, all striving towards mankind’s healthy survival, with Capitalism/Corporatism and the “drive” for ROI alone, gone from the face of the earth. Super-humans from China, product of a search of the entire Asian gene pool for the brightest minds, and a breeding process, much as done for Panda’s there – IQ’s beyond American measurement capabilities. Uranium banned as a fuel for fission, replaced by safer Thorium. Pan-Eurasian Empire rules the world with scientific basis, not the “profit motive, not religious notions, America paradigm shifts, morphs, molds and complies – not a shot fired. America sees Chinese designed Thorium-LFTR reactor /electricity powering Chinese bullet trains on the north American continent, replacing jet fuel intensive flying.  

  • Dan C

    I find lot of these ideas interesting but many of them are unlikely to happen any time soon. Just to point out a couple:
    1.  I doubt paper will ever be eliminated.  We may not always use paper made from trees but a physical document is always useful to have as digital documents can be altered more easily.
    2. Laser pens that seal wounds for personal emergency are just silly.  If you have a lighter and a knife you can do the same thing and considering any hiker worth anything has both of those items, so why bother with a laser?

    If you look at similar lists written 10 or 15 years ago about what it will be like today you will find that most of the things predicted (if not all) did not occur.

    • Jason Wire

      Hey Dan, thanks for the comment!

      You might be interested in checking out this list of ‘predictions’ by Ray Kurzweil: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictions_made_by_Ray_Kurzweil … quite many of them have in fact come true!

      Also, I totally agree that paper will ever be eliminated. Partly due to the fact that for a lot of things, we need the hard copy, and partly due to humanity’s need for Dunder Mifflin.

    • Jason Wire

      Hey Dan, thanks for the comment!

      You might be interested in checking out this list of ‘predictions’ by Ray Kurzweil: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictions_made_by_Ray_Kurzweil … quite many of them have in fact come true!

      Also, I totally agree that paper will ever be eliminated. Partly due to the fact that for a lot of things, we need the hard copy, and partly due to humanity’s need for Dunder Mifflin.

    • Jason Wire

      Hey Dan, thanks for the comment!

      You might be interested in checking out this list of ‘predictions’ by Ray Kurzweil: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictions_made_by_Ray_Kurzweil … quite many of them have in fact come true!

      Also, I totally agree that paper will ever be eliminated. Partly due to the fact that for a lot of things, we need the hard copy, and partly due to humanity’s need for Dunder Mifflin.

    • Jason Wire

      Hey Dan, thanks for the comment!

      You might be interested in checking out this list of ‘predictions’ by Ray Kurzweil: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictions_made_by_Ray_Kurzweil … quite many of them have in fact come true!

      Also, I totally agree that paper will ever be eliminated. Partly due to the fact that for a lot of things, we need the hard copy, and partly due to humanity’s need for Dunder Mifflin.

    • Jason Wire

      Hey Dan, thanks for the comment!

      You might be interested in checking out this list of ‘predictions’ by Ray Kurzweil: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictions_made_by_Ray_Kurzweil … quite many of them have in fact come true!

      Also, I totally agree that paper will ever be eliminated. Partly due to the fact that for a lot of things, we need the hard copy, and partly due to humanity’s need for Dunder Mifflin.

    • Jake

      1) paper is on its way out no matter what you do. You may think that we need hard copies of everything but to be honest with enhancements in retinal and fingerprint scans, security is becoming much more reliable with digital documents. 
      2) i agree with you in the sense that large lasers arent yet controllable to that precision. but i promise you that if this technology existed it would be used. Your argument isnt valid that just because hikers can use a lighter and knife now, doesnt prove that one item capable of effectively and safely sealing a wound wouldnt be necessary, especially for soldiers or another job that causes you to be away from modern medicine.  

    • Jake

      1) paper is on its way out no matter what you do. You may think that we need hard copies of everything but to be honest with enhancements in retinal and fingerprint scans, security is becoming much more reliable with digital documents. 
      2) i agree with you in the sense that large lasers arent yet controllable to that precision. but i promise you that if this technology existed it would be used. Your argument isnt valid that just because hikers can use a lighter and knife now, doesnt prove that one item capable of effectively and safely sealing a wound wouldnt be necessary, especially for soldiers or another job that causes you to be away from modern medicine.  

  • Anonymous

    Soon, you will have a machine that “prints” everything you need. When you get done with the item, you may be able to disintegrate and re use it.

  • Anonymous

    Soon, you will have a machine that “prints” everything you need. When you get done with the item, you may be able to disintegrate and re use it.

    • Gutendacht

      Yeah, yeah. Wake me up when they can print edible sausage.

    • Gutendacht

      Yeah, yeah. Wake me up when they can print edible sausage.

    • Gutendacht

      Yeah, yeah. Wake me up when they can print edible sausage.

      • BadMonday

        Yeah, you’d like that, wouldn’t you, you fat ignorant stumbling Schwuchtel Sie!

      • BadMonday

        Yeah, you’d like that, wouldn’t you, you fat ignorant stumbling Schwuchtel Sie!

      • BadMonday

        Yeah, you’d like that, wouldn’t you, you fat ignorant stumbling Schwuchtel Sie!

      • BadMonday

        Yeah, you’d like that, wouldn’t you, you fat ignorant stumbling Schwuchtel Sie!

      • BadMonday

        Yeah, you’d like that, wouldn’t you, you fat ignorant stumbling Schwuchtel Sie!

      • BadMonday

        Yeah, you’d like that, wouldn’t you, you fat ignorant stumbling Schwuchtel Sie!

      • Anonymous

        See article below under futurism.

      • Anonymous

        See article below under futurism.

    • Gutendacht

      Yeah, yeah. Wake me up when they can print edible sausage.

  • Anonymous

    Soon, you will have a machine that “prints” everything you need. When you get done with the item, you may be able to disintegrate and re use it.

  • Anonymous

    Soon, you will have a machine that “prints” everything you need. When you get done with the item, you may be able to disintegrate and re use it.

  • Anonymous

    Soon, you will have a machine that “prints” everything you need. When you get done with the item, you may be able to disintegrate and re use it.

  • Somethingood92

    wierd….. NASA gets the shaft but we can still expect all of these new space missions….

  • Somethingood92

    wierd….. NASA gets the shaft but we can still expect all of these new space missions….

  • Somethingood92

    wierd….. NASA gets the shaft but we can still expect all of these new space missions….

  • Somethingood92

    wierd….. NASA gets the shaft but we can still expect all of these new space missions….

    • Oreoking

      When I planted those fruit loops last month I expected them to blossom int doughnut trees. I’m starting to think that won’t happen either…

    • Oreoking

      When I planted those fruit loops last month I expected them to blossom int doughnut trees. I’m starting to think that won’t happen either…

    • Oreoking

      When I planted those fruit loops last month I expected them to blossom int doughnut trees. I’m starting to think that won’t happen either…

    • Licha

      I was thinking the same thing. Though the U.S. wasn’t the only country with a space program, I still find the expected space missions to be ludicrous. Although, it’s not like everything else seems plausible. I’m just surprised no one is questioning the space-related “goals”

  • Somethingood92

    wierd….. NASA gets the shaft but we can still expect all of these new space missions….

  • G A Rhea

    well that was spectacular. Thank you for sharing the light. Great wrap up to an informative piece on what is to come. We always try to hold on to some illusion of control.

  • Heytheretaylor

    Isn’t “Light Peak” technology, you said would be rolling out in 2018 just the old name for Thunderbolt which is already on Macs? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_(interface)

  • Heytheretaylor

    Isn’t “Light Peak” technology, you said would be rolling out in 2018 just the old name for Thunderbolt which is already on Macs? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_(interface)

  • Heytheretaylor

    Isn’t “Light Peak” technology, you said would be rolling out in 2018 just the old name for Thunderbolt which is already on Macs? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_(interface)

  • Heytheretaylor

    Isn’t “Light Peak” technology, you said would be rolling out in 2018 just the old name for Thunderbolt which is already on Macs? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_(interface)

  • Heytheretaylor

    Isn’t “Light Peak” technology, you said would be rolling out in 2018 just the old name for Thunderbolt which is already on Macs? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_(interface)

  • http://profiles.google.com/kilgoretrout321 Zack Oliver

    My hope: people realize that computers do not make them happy, do not improve life and go back to actually living in the real world….

    • Hamij1990

      says the person on a computer, liked by the people on a computer

    • Hamij1990

      says the person on a computer, liked by the people on a computer

    • Hamij1990

      says the person on a computer, liked by the people on a computer

    • Mason McDonald

      Computers make me very content, and in the medical field, as well as pretty much every other field, computers have saved lives and made people’s lives much more easy and efficient.

      • Missing_the_point

        Medical field? You get to be Dr. McDonald? Awesome. PLEASE tell me your a Pediatrician. 

        • Jackson N W

          Awesome.  You might like my latest Deer video on youtube here: http://youtu.be/1A9HtTEQqiA

          • aerie

            Thanks for the spam, douchebag.

      • Missing_the_point

        Medical field? You get to be Dr. McDonald? Awesome. PLEASE tell me your a Pediatrician. 

      • The man.

        Content is satisfying for you? Have you ever been happy?

    • http://twitter.com/Zucchinis Pink Galah

      Sorry Zack, but computers make people extremely happy and improve life enormously.  Of course we need a balance between screen time and real-world activities, but don’t tell me standing in a queue at the bank is superior to online banking. I have learned an enormous amount and expanded my horizons hugely since gaining access to the net. I continue to learn lots of new things every day and make many new connections,  both intellectual and social.

    • http://twitter.com/Zucchinis Pink Galah

      Sorry Zack, but computers make people extremely happy and improve life enormously.  Of course we need a balance between screen time and real-world activities, but don’t tell me standing in a queue at the bank is superior to online banking. I have learned an enormous amount and expanded my horizons hugely since gaining access to the net. I continue to learn lots of new things every day and make many new connections,  both intellectual and social.

    • Tamezzo12 12

      What a pointless and ignorant thing to say, Zack

      • Gavin

        I whole heartedly agree, Tamezzo12 12.  Zack, what can you possibly hope to gain from a comment like that?

      • Gavin

        I whole heartedly agree, Tamezzo12 12.  Zack, what can you possibly hope to gain from a comment like that?

    • Tamezzo12 12

      What a pointless and ignorant thing to say, Zack

    • Tamezzo12 12

      What a pointless and ignorant thing to say, Zack

    • Tamezzo12 12

      What a pointless and ignorant thing to say, Zack

    • Sandrapsg

      Well, I’d like to add if you are talking about people who forget about socializing and just play games all day long, do not have real friends, and never fallen out a tree, I will agree with you.
      But if you are talking about the way we can research and find out anything about anything… then learning through a computer is cheaper than doing a degree (or you can do a degree online)!! All I am trying to say is that it does make life easier,  if you know how to use it well :) You get the info then you use it to live life :)

    • Sandrapsg

      Well, I’d like to add if you are talking about people who forget about socializing and just play games all day long, do not have real friends, and never fallen out a tree, I will agree with you.
      But if you are talking about the way we can research and find out anything about anything… then learning through a computer is cheaper than doing a degree (or you can do a degree online)!! All I am trying to say is that it does make life easier,  if you know how to use it well :) You get the info then you use it to live life :)

    • Sandrapsg

      Well, I’d like to add if you are talking about people who forget about socializing and just play games all day long, do not have real friends, and never fallen out a tree, I will agree with you.
      But if you are talking about the way we can research and find out anything about anything… then learning through a computer is cheaper than doing a degree (or you can do a degree online)!! All I am trying to say is that it does make life easier,  if you know how to use it well :) You get the info then you use it to live life :)

    • Sandrapsg

      Well, I’d like to add if you are talking about people who forget about socializing and just play games all day long, do not have real friends, and never fallen out a tree, I will agree with you.
      But if you are talking about the way we can research and find out anything about anything… then learning through a computer is cheaper than doing a degree (or you can do a degree online)!! All I am trying to say is that it does make life easier,  if you know how to use it well :) You get the info then you use it to live life :)

  • http://profiles.google.com/kilgoretrout321 Zack Oliver

    My hope: people realize that computers do not make them happy, do not improve life and go back to actually living in the real world….

  • http://profiles.google.com/kilgoretrout321 Zack Oliver

    My hope: people realize that computers do not make them happy, do not improve life and go back to actually living in the real world….

  • http://profiles.google.com/kilgoretrout321 Zack Oliver

    My hope: people realize that computers do not make them happy, do not improve life and go back to actually living in the real world….

  • http://twitter.com/vukmang vukman

    sales equipment here at http://www.zurich-beauty.com/ , we jos cant wait for the future

  • Mrlameduck

    Tarquin the aspirational fly Tarquin the aspirational flyTarquin the aspirational flyTarquin the aspirational flyTarquin the aspirational flyTarquin the aspirational flyTarquin the aspirational flyTarquin the aspirational fly TYPE IT IN!!!!

  • Anonymous

    Where is it that Mayans said we’re due for a “shakeup” in 2012?
    http://news.discovery.com/space/the-2012-mayan-calendar-doomsday-date-might-be-wrong.html

  • Anonymous

    Sort of related is the question of Moore’s Law for most of this technology to become reality.

    Gordon Moore is actually the co-founder of Intel as well.

    More about Gordon Moore’s Law

  • Anonymous

    Sort of related is the question of Moore’s Law for most of this technology to become reality.

    Gordon Moore is actually the co-founder of Intel as well.

    More about Gordon Moore’s Law

  • Anonymous

    Sort of related is the question of Moore’s Law for most of this technology to become reality.

    Gordon Moore is actually the co-founder of Intel as well.

    More about Gordon Moore’s Law

  • Maha Khan

    Well, I heard it on the news,They’re selling everything they can. They are making advancements in science. They’re fightin’ battles in the stars, They’re pourin’ billions into Mars. And layin’ right there at my feet, There’re people sleepin’ in the street!!!Stay Human !!

  • Ahmad_bny

    لايك like 

  • Dan Lake

    2018: “…the standard hard drive is probably well over 2TB.” Since they are already available at 4TB and projected to be 10TB in just 3 years, this 2TB figure seems really out of place.

  • Magnano

    its  amazing i have hope now :D its 3.15 am in Turkey going to bed in peace long live free human intelligence help us intel !

  • http://www.facebook.com/mbautin Mikhail Bautin

    The other half of the lifestyle in which we live is probably enabled by AMD.

  • Optimist

    Looking forward to it :)

  • Optimist

    Looking forward to it :)

  • Optimist

    Looking forward to it :)

  • Optimist

    Looking forward to it :)

  • dotmatrix

    Some of these read like predictions from ’50′s popular science magazines that still have yet to pass.  Flying cars, anyone?

  • dotmatrix

    Some of these read like predictions from ’50′s popular science magazines that still have yet to pass.  Flying cars, anyone?

  • http://www.facebook.com/jasmith.tech Josh Smith

    “Right now, e-paper is pretty much only used in e-readers like the Kindle, but it’s something researchers everywhere are eager to expand upon. Full-color
    video integration is the obvious next step, and as tablet prices fall,
    it’s likely newspapers will soon be fully eradicated from their current
    form. The good news: less deforestation, and more user control over your
    sources.”

    the bad news, Thousands lose their jobs, as small local papers close up shop and can’t keep up. The “local” news dies away as rural areas that had been only reached by a weekly circular lose anything specific to them. Managers, newspaper staff and printers who have done this all their lives suddenly find themselves put in a place where they don’t know what else to do because they’ve been at it 30 years and are too old to go back and learn something new, but still too young to retire and need to support families. the dying of print newspapers is a terrible and sad thing that many overlook because it isn’t as “Sexy” as new tech and other hot button issues

    • Oyhecht

      no need to be so dramatic. instead of being in print, the newspaper will be electronically delivered. it will be the death of print newspapers, but not of local newspapers. the only people who will really suffer are newspaper delivery boys

  • http://www.facebook.com/jasmith.tech Josh Smith

    “Right now, e-paper is pretty much only used in e-readers like the Kindle, but it’s something researchers everywhere are eager to expand upon. Full-color
    video integration is the obvious next step, and as tablet prices fall,
    it’s likely newspapers will soon be fully eradicated from their current
    form. The good news: less deforestation, and more user control over your
    sources.”

    the bad news, Thousands lose their jobs, as small local papers close up shop and can’t keep up. The “local” news dies away as rural areas that had been only reached by a weekly circular lose anything specific to them. Managers, newspaper staff and printers who have done this all their lives suddenly find themselves put in a place where they don’t know what else to do because they’ve been at it 30 years and are too old to go back and learn something new, but still too young to retire and need to support families. the dying of print newspapers is a terrible and sad thing that many overlook because it isn’t as “Sexy” as new tech and other hot button issues

  • http://www.facebook.com/jasmith.tech Josh Smith

    “Right now, e-paper is pretty much only used in e-readers like the Kindle, but it’s something researchers everywhere are eager to expand upon. Full-color
    video integration is the obvious next step, and as tablet prices fall,
    it’s likely newspapers will soon be fully eradicated from their current
    form. The good news: less deforestation, and more user control over your
    sources.”

    the bad news, Thousands lose their jobs, as small local papers close up shop and can’t keep up. The “local” news dies away as rural areas that had been only reached by a weekly circular lose anything specific to them. Managers, newspaper staff and printers who have done this all their lives suddenly find themselves put in a place where they don’t know what else to do because they’ve been at it 30 years and are too old to go back and learn something new, but still too young to retire and need to support families. the dying of print newspapers is a terrible and sad thing that many overlook because it isn’t as “Sexy” as new tech and other hot button issues

  • http://www.facebook.com/jasmith.tech Josh Smith

    “Right now, e-paper is pretty much only used in e-readers like the Kindle, but it’s something researchers everywhere are eager to expand upon. Full-color
    video integration is the obvious next step, and as tablet prices fall,
    it’s likely newspapers will soon be fully eradicated from their current
    form. The good news: less deforestation, and more user control over your
    sources.”

    the bad news, Thousands lose their jobs, as small local papers close up shop and can’t keep up. The “local” news dies away as rural areas that had been only reached by a weekly circular lose anything specific to them. Managers, newspaper staff and printers who have done this all their lives suddenly find themselves put in a place where they don’t know what else to do because they’ve been at it 30 years and are too old to go back and learn something new, but still too young to retire and need to support families. the dying of print newspapers is a terrible and sad thing that many overlook because it isn’t as “Sexy” as new tech and other hot button issues

  • http://www.facebook.com/jasmith.tech Josh Smith

    “Right now, e-paper is pretty much only used in e-readers like the Kindle, but it’s something researchers everywhere are eager to expand upon. Full-color
    video integration is the obvious next step, and as tablet prices fall,
    it’s likely newspapers will soon be fully eradicated from their current
    form. The good news: less deforestation, and more user control over your
    sources.”

    the bad news, Thousands lose their jobs, as small local papers close up shop and can’t keep up. The “local” news dies away as rural areas that had been only reached by a weekly circular lose anything specific to them. Managers, newspaper staff and printers who have done this all their lives suddenly find themselves put in a place where they don’t know what else to do because they’ve been at it 30 years and are too old to go back and learn something new, but still too young to retire and need to support families. the dying of print newspapers is a terrible and sad thing that many overlook because it isn’t as “Sexy” as new tech and other hot button issues

  • Jewishkamikaze

    I’d say very few of these will actually happen, and THAT is being optimistic.

  • lumodagr8

    SOUNDS LIKE  Total Recall…..

  • HoosierDaddy757

    And e-toilet paper, too. 

  • Motazgamer

    You Idiot, Go read “physics of the future” then come talk about the next 10 years

  • Motazgamer

    You Idiot, Go read “physics of the future” then come talk about the next 10 years

  • Ilivetolivelive

    Zack, I’m with you. I hope the majority believes that.
    Computers do so much, but they can only hinder real progress. And whatever happiness they’ve given you, it is inevitably pointless. Computers are extensions of ourselves, they are tools. A hammer may build a better building, but the person still needs to live in it. We have to be a part of our surroundings, or we become lost in them. We are becoming a virus, spreading and growing stronger. Unstoppable as we feel, we’re causing our own undoing to be even sooner.

  • http://twitter.com/TheRevDoctor Eric Doctor

    Ultrabooks as new technology? I’m posting this comment on a MacBook Air, which is 7/10 of an inch thick at its thickest point, weighs less than 2.5 pounds, uses flash-based storage, and cost less than $1000. The particular model that I’m using has been out for just over a year.

  • http://twitter.com/TheRevDoctor Eric Doctor

    Ultrabooks as new technology? I’m posting this comment on a MacBook Air, which is 7/10 of an inch thick at its thickest point, weighs less than 2.5 pounds, uses flash-based storage, and cost less than $1000. The particular model that I’m using has been out for just over a year.

  • http://twitter.com/TheRevDoctor Eric Doctor

    Ultrabooks as new technology? I’m posting this comment on a MacBook Air, which is 7/10 of an inch thick at its thickest point, weighs less than 2.5 pounds, uses flash-based storage, and cost less than $1000. The particular model that I’m using has been out for just over a year.

  • Jonathan

    the link for the woolly mammoth entry tells you about how its physically impossible to do what the scientists are trying to do. did the author do any research at all?

  • Jonathan

    the link for the woolly mammoth entry tells you about how its physically impossible to do what the scientists are trying to do. did the author do any research at all?

  • http://milano.bbakeca.com/bakeca-donna-cerca-uomo/milano-1 Donne Milano

    We need to admit that computers are part of our life, either we want it, or not

  • Gutha Raghu

    waiting to ride………….

  • Gutha Raghu

    waiting to ride………….

  • Gutha Raghu

    waiting to ride………….

  • Jonathansmet

    photo, atomium in Belgium build in 1958. You will see by 2021 pfff…

  • Sierra Bravo

    I believe that you may be wrong on the “Ultrabook” (or any “book” for that matter) being the next paradigm-shifting computing device. Pls see this blog on “Immediate Computing” and the paradigm shift that the tablet-pad-slate format is set to create: http://goo.gl/ZEQBQ

  • Sam Morse

    but where’s my jet pack and rocket car?

  • Sam Morse

    but where’s my jet pack and rocket car?

  • Ignatius

    God save us.

  • Anonymous

    cool

  • Anonymous

    cool

  • Anonymous

    cool

  • Jtelliott77

    I for one welcome our robot overlords.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002306281253 Willis Lee

    WOW, just… WOW…

  • Hassan Ali

    Good article.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1007021128 Harshil Chahal

    Love it. :)

  • Danielbrittphoto

    Awesome article man. Can’t wait for that mammoth!

  • Matt

    still waiting for rocket cars………..[since 1970]

  • Anonymous

    And don’t forget about all the cool new stuff that no one has even imagined yet…

  • Anonymous

    And don’t forget about all the cool new stuff that no one has even imagined yet…

  • Anonymous

    And don’t forget about all the cool new stuff that no one has even imagined yet…

  • Anonymous

    And don’t forget about all the cool new stuff that no one has even imagined yet…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jim-Sadler/100000669567592 Jim Sadler

         These are wonderful technologies but be warned that all human labor will be displaced. Whether it is a surgeon or a lawyer or a brick layer these trades will vanish as machines can do a far better job. That means that sweeping changes in society must take place. Employment will become a historic oddity. Items such as housing should become almost free. Yet the land under the home may be very expensive. The law will forbid humans from driving cars as robotics already is better at that. Our military can be made up of machines eliminating the very concept of human warriors. Marriage may also become historic as machines may acquire advanced abilities in sexual relations.
           People don’t believe it but our Air Force is already going robotic and Navy vessels that wage war with no humans on board are already in planning. Think about the capabilities of a war vessel that need to carry supplies for human life. We can increase the ability of the vessel to wage war while shrinking the size of the ship and hardening it as a target.

  • Evan Widloski

    These are very optimistic predictions. especially the one about computers being as powerful as human brain in less than 10 years.  The most powerful super computer, Blue Gene, is only just now powerful enough to simulate a rat brain.

  • Evan Widloski

    These are very optimistic predictions. especially the one about computers being as powerful as human brain in less than 10 years.  The most powerful super computer, Blue Gene, is only just now powerful enough to simulate a rat brain.

  • Evan Widloski

    These are very optimistic predictions. especially the one about computers being as powerful as human brain in less than 10 years.  The most powerful super computer, Blue Gene, is only just now powerful enough to simulate a rat brain.

    • Dabellian

      Yes, but the majority of the brain is used for controlling heartbeat, moving arms, and physical things like that. You really only need to simulate the thinking part.

    • Dabellian

      Yes, but the majority of the brain is used for controlling heartbeat, moving arms, and physical things like that. You really only need to simulate the thinking part.

  • Evan Widloski

    These are very optimistic predictions. especially the one about computers being as powerful as human brain in less than 10 years.  The most powerful super computer, Blue Gene, is only just now powerful enough to simulate a rat brain.

  • Woop

    But what about Idiocracy?

  • Woop

    But what about Idiocracy?

  • Woop

    But what about Idiocracy?

  • Andy

    I’m gonna be the guy who says: I thought this article was right on until they claimed that a fusion reactor is actually feasible….

  • Andy

    I’m gonna be the guy who says: I thought this article was right on until they claimed that a fusion reactor is actually feasible….

  • Andy

    I’m gonna be the guy who says: I thought this article was right on until they claimed that a fusion reactor is actually feasible….

  • http://www.facebook.com/Ziplock9000 John Stock

    2018 Hard Disks will be well over 2TB? You do realise that 3TB Drives were available in 2010.?

    • Anonymous

      Hey John, just look a little closer. I was saying that we’ll see mini SD cards with over 1TB, and that by 2018 the -standard- size of a hard drive will be over 2TB. Obviously even today, 2TB isnt even that much in the scheme of hard disks.

  • Azanmann

    And like the false prophets of old can we stone them to death if their prophecies don’t come true? No – didn’t think so. Proof it is a gutless, trivial world we live in today! I grew up in the 1950′s with the false hope of colonies on the moon by 1960 (Fizzle, phut phut) – Mars by 2000 (dream on, the planet doesn’t even have a magnetosphere to protect from UV)  – no war (yeah right!) – politicians being honest (Hah) . . . and every decade another bunch of dreams. Maybe Jason Wire should listen to the Supertramp song ‘DREAMER’ and get a reality check!
    Thumbs down!

  • Azanmann

    And like the false prophets of old can we stone them to death if their prophecies don’t come true? No – didn’t think so. Proof it is a gutless, trivial world we live in today! I grew up in the 1950′s with the false hope of colonies on the moon by 1960 (Fizzle, phut phut) – Mars by 2000 (dream on, the planet doesn’t even have a magnetosphere to protect from UV)  – no war (yeah right!) – politicians being honest (Hah) . . . and every decade another bunch of dreams. Maybe Jason Wire should listen to the Supertramp song ‘DREAMER’ and get a reality check!
    Thumbs down!

  • Azanmann

    And like the false prophets of old can we stone them to death if their prophecies don’t come true? No – didn’t think so. Proof it is a gutless, trivial world we live in today! I grew up in the 1950′s with the false hope of colonies on the moon by 1960 (Fizzle, phut phut) – Mars by 2000 (dream on, the planet doesn’t even have a magnetosphere to protect from UV)  – no war (yeah right!) – politicians being honest (Hah) . . . and every decade another bunch of dreams. Maybe Jason Wire should listen to the Supertramp song ‘DREAMER’ and get a reality check!
    Thumbs down!

  • Azanmann

    And like the false prophets of old can we stone them to death if their prophecies don’t come true? No – didn’t think so. Proof it is a gutless, trivial world we live in today! I grew up in the 1950′s with the false hope of colonies on the moon by 1960 (Fizzle, phut phut) – Mars by 2000 (dream on, the planet doesn’t even have a magnetosphere to protect from UV)  – no war (yeah right!) – politicians being honest (Hah) . . . and every decade another bunch of dreams. Maybe Jason Wire should listen to the Supertramp song ‘DREAMER’ and get a reality check!
    Thumbs down!

  • Anonymous

    All I can say is… good luck to the machines! They got their work cut out for them deciphering the meaning behind all that porn on the internet when the semantic web comes out. 

  • Anonymous

    All I can say is… good luck to the machines! They got their work cut out for them deciphering the meaning behind all that porn on the internet when the semantic web comes out. 

  • Azanmann

    Still waiting for Luna colonies – since 1957
    Still waiting for no war – since 1970′s (Vietnam)
    Still waiting for honest politicians  – since being naive enough to care (1970′s)
    . . . and the flying car . . . the cyber/human (1980′s) . . . cheap-free  power as per Jules Verne/Tesla the 1980′s promised
    . . . the cure for cancer ($$$$$ spent) . . . the fusion reactor . . .

    JUST AS WELL I HAVE A LIFE, AM ACTIVE IN MY OWN PURSUITS,  OTHERWISE I’D GIVE UP WAITING AND LOOK ELSEWHERE FOR     H  O  P  E   . . . which is all science fiction is!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/AlistairU Alistair Unterslak

    Its missing a major prospect – the teleporter. If no one else is gonna build one – I will. Scientists have already made breakthroughs. Its only a matter of time…

  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/thisisbossi/collections/ Bossi

    The Rise of Electronic Paper
    Deforestation woes may be a bit more nuanced.  What is the impact of tree farming or deforestation (depending on where the paper comes from) versus the energy demands of electonic paper and the resource extraction necessary to provide the power?

    The Eye of Gaia
    There’s a HUGE difference between observing a billion stars and observing a billion pixels.  There’s a lot of empty space in those pixels; a billion stars is a much more impressive endeavor!  On my home computer in 2007 I created a 25 gigapixel image… that’s about 25 times beyond a billion pixels & done on the budget of a 20-something!

    Light Peak
    While I think you meant 2 TB is our current benchmark and you’re just estimating we’ll be well beyond it without actually specifying an estimated size… the phrasing of that last bit makes it sound like it’s a bit of a stretch that hard drives will be bigger than 2 TB in 2018.

    Crash Proof Cars
    Can’t have crash-proof cars until you have a crash-proof world.  A child runs into a street; a deer leaps from the shadows; a tree collapses from snow… when children start harmlessly bouncing off the hood and landing comfortably on their own two feet: I’ll start to pay attention.  Until then: “safer” cars just mean people will drive them faster and with less attention toward the road for the moments where electronics can’t complete their role.

  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/thisisbossi/collections/ Bossi

    The Rise of Electronic Paper
    Deforestation woes may be a bit more nuanced.  What is the impact of tree farming or deforestation (depending on where the paper comes from) versus the energy demands of electonic paper and the resource extraction necessary to provide the power?

    The Eye of Gaia
    There’s a HUGE difference between observing a billion stars and observing a billion pixels.  There’s a lot of empty space in those pixels; a billion stars is a much more impressive endeavor!  On my home computer in 2007 I created a 25 gigapixel image… that’s about 25 times beyond a billion pixels & done on the budget of a 20-something!

    Light Peak
    While I think you meant 2 TB is our current benchmark and you’re just estimating we’ll be well beyond it without actually specifying an estimated size… the phrasing of that last bit makes it sound like it’s a bit of a stretch that hard drives will be bigger than 2 TB in 2018.

    Crash Proof Cars
    Can’t have crash-proof cars until you have a crash-proof world.  A child runs into a street; a deer leaps from the shadows; a tree collapses from snow… when children start harmlessly bouncing off the hood and landing comfortably on their own two feet: I’ll start to pay attention.  Until then: “safer” cars just mean people will drive them faster and with less attention toward the road for the moments where electronics can’t complete their role.

  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/thisisbossi/collections/ Bossi

    The Rise of Electronic Paper
    Deforestation woes may be a bit more nuanced.  What is the impact of tree farming or deforestation (depending on where the paper comes from) versus the energy demands of electonic paper and the resource extraction necessary to provide the power?

    The Eye of Gaia
    There’s a HUGE difference between observing a billion stars and observing a billion pixels.  There’s a lot of empty space in those pixels; a billion stars is a much more impressive endeavor!  On my home computer in 2007 I created a 25 gigapixel image… that’s about 25 times beyond a billion pixels & done on the budget of a 20-something!

    Light Peak
    While I think you meant 2 TB is our current benchmark and you’re just estimating we’ll be well beyond it without actually specifying an estimated size… the phrasing of that last bit makes it sound like it’s a bit of a stretch that hard drives will be bigger than 2 TB in 2018.

    Crash Proof Cars
    Can’t have crash-proof cars until you have a crash-proof world.  A child runs into a street; a deer leaps from the shadows; a tree collapses from snow… when children start harmlessly bouncing off the hood and landing comfortably on their own two feet: I’ll start to pay attention.  Until then: “safer” cars just mean people will drive them faster and with less attention toward the road for the moments where electronics can’t complete their role.

  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/thisisbossi/collections/ Bossi

    The Rise of Electronic Paper
    Deforestation woes may be a bit more nuanced.  What is the impact of tree farming or deforestation (depending on where the paper comes from) versus the energy demands of electonic paper and the resource extraction necessary to provide the power?

    The Eye of Gaia
    There’s a HUGE difference between observing a billion stars and observing a billion pixels.  There’s a lot of empty space in those pixels; a billion stars is a much more impressive endeavor!  On my home computer in 2007 I created a 25 gigapixel image… that’s about 25 times beyond a billion pixels & done on the budget of a 20-something!

    Light Peak
    While I think you meant 2 TB is our current benchmark and you’re just estimating we’ll be well beyond it without actually specifying an estimated size… the phrasing of that last bit makes it sound like it’s a bit of a stretch that hard drives will be bigger than 2 TB in 2018.

    Crash Proof Cars
    Can’t have crash-proof cars until you have a crash-proof world.  A child runs into a street; a deer leaps from the shadows; a tree collapses from snow… when children start harmlessly bouncing off the hood and landing comfortably on their own two feet: I’ll start to pay attention.  Until then: “safer” cars just mean people will drive them faster and with less attention toward the road for the moments where electronics can’t complete their role.

  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/thisisbossi/collections/ Bossi

    The Rise of Electronic Paper
    Deforestation woes may be a bit more nuanced.  What is the impact of tree farming or deforestation (depending on where the paper comes from) versus the energy demands of electonic paper and the resource extraction necessary to provide the power?

    The Eye of Gaia
    There’s a HUGE difference between observing a billion stars and observing a billion pixels.  There’s a lot of empty space in those pixels; a billion stars is a much more impressive endeavor!  On my home computer in 2007 I created a 25 gigapixel image… that’s about 25 times beyond a billion pixels & done on the budget of a 20-something!

    Light Peak
    While I think you meant 2 TB is our current benchmark and you’re just estimating we’ll be well beyond it without actually specifying an estimated size… the phrasing of that last bit makes it sound like it’s a bit of a stretch that hard drives will be bigger than 2 TB in 2018.

    Crash Proof Cars
    Can’t have crash-proof cars until you have a crash-proof world.  A child runs into a street; a deer leaps from the shadows; a tree collapses from snow… when children start harmlessly bouncing off the hood and landing comfortably on their own two feet: I’ll start to pay attention.  Until then: “safer” cars just mean people will drive them faster and with less attention toward the road for the moments where electronics can’t complete their role.

  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/thisisbossi/collections/ Bossi

    The Rise of Electronic Paper
    Deforestation woes may be a bit more nuanced.  What is the impact of tree farming or deforestation (depending on where the paper comes from) versus the energy demands of electonic paper and the resource extraction necessary to provide the power?

    The Eye of Gaia
    There’s a HUGE difference between observing a billion stars and observing a billion pixels.  There’s a lot of empty space in those pixels; a billion stars is a much more impressive endeavor!  On my home computer in 2007 I created a 25 gigapixel image… that’s about 25 times beyond a billion pixels & done on the budget of a 20-something!

    Light Peak
    While I think you meant 2 TB is our current benchmark and you’re just estimating we’ll be well beyond it without actually specifying an estimated size… the phrasing of that last bit makes it sound like it’s a bit of a stretch that hard drives will be bigger than 2 TB in 2018.

    Crash Proof Cars
    Can’t have crash-proof cars until you have a crash-proof world.  A child runs into a street; a deer leaps from the shadows; a tree collapses from snow… when children start harmlessly bouncing off the hood and landing comfortably on their own two feet: I’ll start to pay attention.  Until then: “safer” cars just mean people will drive them faster and with less attention toward the road for the moments where electronics can’t complete their role.

  • Alex

    In the early 1900′s, people were saying all that was to be invented, had been invented and look at us now. That’s the beauty of inventions. Before they’re made, no one thinks they need them, afterwards, they couldn’t imagine living without them. Just imagine what the world will be like in another 100 years… I can’t.

  • aerie

    The U.S. will be a 3rd world country. You can thank religion for knuckledragging us back to the Dark Ages.

    • Chris

      ……seeing as we have been the most technologically advanced country for years, fostered ideas, and the only thing slowing us now is our in fortitude to manage our money well…how does religion have anything to do with this?

      • aerie

        Is that a serious question? 

  • aerie

    The U.S. will be a 3rd world country. You can thank religion for knuckledragging us back to the Dark Ages.

  • Vania

    What about dating in the future. Technology will evolve but human relationships between man and woman are a primal basic function.  Men will always want beautiful women to love. Perhaps we can invent a love robot but until then you can get the real thing at http://www.latineuro.com – Date a Latin Girl and be happy. Or wait for the Robot.

  • Vania

    What about dating in the future. Technology will evolve but human relationships between man and woman are a primal basic function.  Men will always want beautiful women to love. Perhaps we can invent a love robot but until then you can get the real thing at http://www.latineuro.com – Date a Latin Girl and be happy. Or wait for the Robot.

  • jovanov

    Health is in your hands

  • jovanov

    Health is in your handssee on the http://jovanov.net

  • http://steve.macdonald.myopenid.com/ Steve Macdonald

    Most of these are completely out to lunch. One example: “crash-proof cars”. Ten years represents two model cycles for car manufacturers. Does anyone believe that cars in 2021 are going to be vastly different from today’s cars, considering how current card compare with those from 2001? I.e., 2011 cars are marginally better than those from 2001.

    In general Kurzweil’s “accelerating returns” nonsense has been thoroughly debunked repeatedly. Human brain level PCs in eight years from now? We can’t even get rudimentary AI to work after 50 years of trying. Kurzweil and anyone who swallows his magical thinking are smoking crack. 

    Ten years from now we’ll have a number of moderately improved technologies, just like over the past 10. There *could* be a breakthrough, however most people have noticed by now that we’re seeing *diminishing* returns in many areas, not accelerating ones. In my own area of pharmaceutical research, the demise of the blockbuster drug is all over the news, due to the fact that we’ve already hit all the low-hanging fruit. Many scientific and technical fields face similar “walls”. Don’t get too excited about a gee-whiz techno future — not likely in your lifetime.

  • Correct

    lol URL say 24 inventions, Title says 23 inventions but there are actually 22 inventions.

  • iAmAwesome

    Can’t wait for all of this, but hopefully we do not become too dependent upon this inventions.

  • iAmAwesome

    Can’t wait for all of this, but hopefully we do not become too dependent upon this inventions.

  • iAmAwesome

    Can’t wait for all of this, but hopefully we do not become too dependent upon this inventions.

  • iAmAwesome

    Can’t wait for all of this, but hopefully we do not become too dependent upon this inventions.

  • iAmAwesome

    Can’t wait for all of this, but hopefully we do not become too dependent upon this inventions.

  • iAmAwesome

    Can’t wait for all of this, but hopefully we do not become too dependent upon this inventions.

  • iAmAwesome

    Can’t wait for all of this, but hopefully we do not become too dependent upon this inventions.

  • stephen gabbard

    This is a very peculiar topic.Perhaps furthermore research would help educate us on the therietical state of matter and science with these new technologies.

  • stephen gabbard

    This is a very peculiar topic.Perhaps furthermore research would help educate us on the therietical state of matter and science with these new technologies.

  • Gh0st

    Most of this is awesome, the rest of it is bull. Maybe by 2100 all of this will be possible. Have you seen what movies and media predicted by 2010, 20 years ago? Its scary how far off we were then…

  • notpoopmashine

    that is if we haven’t destroyed theearth by then

  • Brad

    Idk who wrote this but some of it is utterly wrong. i.e. light peak which is already out, robot sized spies…also already exist, space tourism will be much farther off than that, and extremely expensive.  As far as 1TB flash cards. Considered that 1 you’d have to have a light peak type interface for that be remotely usable it would be possible, however, Moore’s law has slowed the last couple years, initially it was true but as we’ve gotten smaller and smaller quantum physics has bounded the law and slowed it growth, soon we will even hit a wall. There are many other possibilities such as computing with grapheme, quantum dots and electron spin state hard drives,  which are being researched.  They probably won’t be out tremendously soon.  But the article is right in one thing the future will bring things we never imagined, if quantum computing becomes real in the near future (20+) years the speed of technology and over all power would increase 250 times.

  • BigBrother

    Nano-bugs… having the government be able to literally fly into your house without you knowing and watch your every move is extremely discomforting. (Yes, I am aware that Big Brother “watches your every move” already, but not to this degree… not in the literal sense that these nano-bugs could allow). With or without privacy laws (… including the ridiculous Patriot Act which stripped Americans of their freedoms in order to protect their freedom… wait, what?), the government will do what it wants to do. Spy on you and your wife making love, watch you gamble away your life-savings, and share in on your child’s first steps… cool. Can’t wait.

  • James Light Brown

    Very interesting/entertaining.

  • James Light Brown

    Very interesting/entertaining.

  • James Light Brown

    Very interesting/entertaining.

  • Rebel9100

    i love to think about awesome new technological advances, it kinda like getting a new season of beavis n butthead!

  • Rebel9100

    i love to think about awesome new technological advances, it kinda like getting a new season of beavis n butthead!

  • http://www.searchofficespace.com Office Space

    The average PC has the power of the human brain. – me not like this, me wants more power :)

  • News Boy

    Newspapers will no longer be needed soon.

    My family’s gonna be out of work. They’ve worked for the local newspaper all their lives. None of them are college graduates. They fought for years to get where they are.

    And it pisses me off. That comment on “deforestation.” For every tree cut down for paper, two more are planted in its place.

  • News Boy

    Newspapers will no longer be needed soon.

    My family’s gonna be out of work. They’ve worked for the local newspaper all their lives. None of them are college graduates. They fought for years to get where they are.

    And it pisses me off. That comment on “deforestation.” For every tree cut down for paper, two more are planted in its place.

  • News Boy

    Newspapers will no longer be needed soon.

    My family’s gonna be out of work. They’ve worked for the local newspaper all their lives. None of them are college graduates. They fought for years to get where they are.

    And it pisses me off. That comment on “deforestation.” For every tree cut down for paper, two more are planted in its place.

  • Friend

    4g does not have a uniform standard. every company assigns this name mostly arbitrarily as a new technology

  • Friend

    4g does not have a uniform standard. every company assigns this name mostly arbitrarily as a new technology

  • Friend

    4g does not have a uniform standard. every company assigns this name mostly arbitrarily as a new technology

  • Friend

    4g does not have a uniform standard. every company assigns this name mostly arbitrarily as a new technology

  • http://www.rlamsal.com.np Rabindra Lamsal

    Awesome. Thanks for sharing.

  • http://ukr-net.info Asolomin42

    Such an idiotic article I have ever read …

  • http://ukr-net.info Asolomin42

    Such an idiotic article I have ever read …

  • david

    Technology is amazing. The things you can do with it are extraordinary. But most of these things are for people with resources. How many people will be able to afford a flight on a solar powered plane? How many people will be able to afford a computer with the power of the human brain? Better question, how many people actually need all of this? Technology can achieve so many things, including resources. How about working on security systems for countries that are ruled by corruption, like mine? How about investing millions on a system that educates people that can’t get proper education? 

    I love technology, and these things are amazing. I just think that what the world needs is progress in violence and poverty.

  • david

    Technology is amazing. The things you can do with it are extraordinary. But most of these things are for people with resources. How many people will be able to afford a flight on a solar powered plane? How many people will be able to afford a computer with the power of the human brain? Better question, how many people actually need all of this? Technology can achieve so many things, including resources. How about working on security systems for countries that are ruled by corruption, like mine? How about investing millions on a system that educates people that can’t get proper education? 

    I love technology, and these things are amazing. I just think that what the world needs is progress in violence and poverty.

  • Fiammaviva74

    Strange enough time ago I heard Korean, Chinese and Japanese, due to social needs, will release a true-to life maid and sex machine with human features by 2019 or so, making people worrying if they have betrayed or not their partner… Ethic will have now to include machines in its range.

  • Roman

    Guys, register to http://www.state.it to get confirmation of web 3.0

  • gonzo

    A Wooly Mammoth will be reborn among other now-extinct animals in 2016

    did they not watch jurassic park?

  • gonzo

    A Wooly Mammoth will be reborn among other now-extinct animals in 2016

    did they not watch jurassic park?

  • gonzo

    A Wooly Mammoth will be reborn among other now-extinct animals in 2016

    did they not watch jurassic park?

  • Guest

    NO USE

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1455288665 Deva O’Donnell

    Nice article. I’m pretty sure 2tb hard drives will be standard in the next few months though.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1455288665 Deva O’Donnell

    Nice article. I’m pretty sure 2tb hard drives will be standard in the next few months though.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1455288665 Deva O’Donnell

    Nice article. I’m pretty sure 2tb hard drives will be standard in the next few months though.

  • Alex

    Completely confused Sci-Fi with reality after 2016. Reminds me of the predictions that people in the 50′s had about the year 2000.

  • hap

    4g will be impotent but not yet. 3g is already faster than my internet. we will streaming 3d video regularly but  not until 2015 at least (yes the technology dose exist but it is not very good yet). so untill that time 4g is like having a car that can go 500 mph but all the speed limits where you live are a maximum of 60. so you pay alot of money for speed you wont use.

  • Moore’s Grave

    I see mention of Moore’s Law, but Moore’s Law hasn’t held true in a very long time. If it were holding true for SD cards, we’d already have multi-terabyte ones.

    And CPU speeds… the first 1000 mhz CPU was created in 1998, with the first commercial release in 2000. By Moore’s law, CPU speeds should hit 256 ghz before the end of next year… but the fastest consumer level CPUs are only slightly over 3 ghz. Even ignoring speed (which is all Moore’s Law dealt with) and looking at processing power with the advent of multicore CPUs in recent years, they’re still less than a tenth as powerful as Moore’s law predicted, and looking at the last five years they’ve progressed even less.

    Magnetic storage is progressing faster than anything right now, but extrapolating Moore’s Law from the first gigabyte hard drive, expected sizes are twenty times the top of the line hard drives today.

    Moore’s law is dead, and good riddance. We’re in an age where families and businesses can replace their equipment because it’s actually broken and not because its been left in the dust after a few months.

  • Moore’s Grave

    I see mention of Moore’s Law, but Moore’s Law hasn’t held true in a very long time. If it were holding true for SD cards, we’d already have multi-terabyte ones.

    And CPU speeds… the first 1000 mhz CPU was created in 1998, with the first commercial release in 2000. By Moore’s law, CPU speeds should hit 256 ghz before the end of next year… but the fastest consumer level CPUs are only slightly over 3 ghz. Even ignoring speed (which is all Moore’s Law dealt with) and looking at processing power with the advent of multicore CPUs in recent years, they’re still less than a tenth as powerful as Moore’s law predicted, and looking at the last five years they’ve progressed even less.

    Magnetic storage is progressing faster than anything right now, but extrapolating Moore’s Law from the first gigabyte hard drive, expected sizes are twenty times the top of the line hard drives today.

    Moore’s law is dead, and good riddance. We’re in an age where families and businesses can replace their equipment because it’s actually broken and not because its been left in the dust after a few months.

  • Fitreee

    where the fuck is the whooley mammoth going to live in 2017…..

  • Fitreee

    where the fuck is the whooley mammoth going to live in 2017…..

  • Fitreee

    where the fuck is the whooley mammoth going to live in 2017…..

  • Fitreee

    where the fuck is the whooley mammoth going to live in 2017…..

  • Smgaliasunknown
  • steve

    One word. Nanotechnology. (www.nano.ms)

  • steve

    One word. Nanotechnology. (www.nano.ms)

  • Sdittrich

    “did they not see jurassic park” the exact words went through my head and then that is the first comment I read lol

  • talrox

    high hopes and lots of ignorance  light peak cant happen durp, web 3.0 wont come out until ipv6 is done and thats been in the making since the 80′s , pc power stronger then the human brain, unlikely we can’t make perpetual energy but we figure we can make something smarter then our selves. also determain the power of the human brain first, oh wait you can’t durp i forgot it’s always changing LOL idiots.

    keep on dreaming

  • talrox

    high hopes and lots of ignorance  light peak cant happen durp, web 3.0 wont come out until ipv6 is done and thats been in the making since the 80′s , pc power stronger then the human brain, unlikely we can’t make perpetual energy but we figure we can make something smarter then our selves. also determain the power of the human brain first, oh wait you can’t durp i forgot it’s always changing LOL idiots.

    keep on dreaming

  • ponderous1ness

    wow

  • http://twitter.com/kaaist Kyle Pearce

    The future is going to be awesome :) I can’t wait for 3d printing, fusion energy and faster Internet connectivity. It would be pretty bizarre to see the Wooly Mammoth roaming the Earth again.

  • Itspietime

    in 2021 i expect to see the dreamcast 2

  • Dontbotherme

    Fail world will end in 11 months

  • http://www.facebook.com/denny.h.chung Dennis Bagel Workng Chung

    a computer is good and bad.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1002313908 Nathan Coppedge

    There *needs* to be an intuitive interface. That means, compatible with insight,,,,,,,,,,

  • http://www.ivpcapital.com/blog Michael Elling

    2013 is the year people will want more than 4G.  When will people start standing up and shouting we want giga and tera, not low mega!   Let’s get real, the carriers have been falling behind moore’s and metcalf’s curves for 10 years and it will get worse before it gets better.  The networks will be the real brake on our growth.

  • Aleadilia

    By 2088 will only exist 88 percent of people and 12%  computers….

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