Predictions: 2026 – 2045

The following are excerpted from
the British Telecom Technology Timeline (information
was compiled f by Ian Neild and Ian Pearson from
worldwide sci-tech reports in 2005):

• AI entity sets up higher-level
  prize for advanced intelligence
• Learning superseded by
  transparent interface to smart computer
• Robots physically and mentally
  superior to humans
• Emulation of bio life form
  inside the computer using protein emulation
• Living genetically engineered
  teddy bear
• Production, storage, and use of
  antimatter
• Space factories for commercial
  production
• First war without any casualties
  from friendly fire
• Robots outnumber soldiers on
  battlefield
• Smart bacteria used as military
  threat to mankind
• Attacks based on facilitating
  natural disasters
• Smart-bacteria weapons
• Gated cities for civilized
  people
• Use of solar wind deflectors to
  set fire to cities
• Nanotech-based virus
  communicable between machines and people, sent over
  net
• Asteroid diversion used as
  weapon
• Moon base the size of small
  village
• Insect-sized robots banned in
  gardens due to effects on wildlife
• Robotic delivery for internal
  mail
• Robotic exercise
  companion
• More robots than people in
  developed countries
• Android gladiators
• Genetic modification used to
  make organic robots
• i-Robot-style robots with
  polymer muscles and strong AI
• Emotion transmission and
  conversion (feel love or anger)
• Digital image overlays enhance
  relationships
• Global voting is held on some
  issues
• Network-based telepathy begins
  to take place online
• Language teaching decline due to
  machine translation services
• Learning superseded by
  transparent interface to smart computers
• 95 percent of people in advanced
  nations are computer literate
• VR extensively used in
  retirement homes
• Restricted capability home
  genetic engineering kits
• Experience recording allows
  retention of complete set of sensations
• "Running man"-style
  entertainment shows using androids
• Widespread use of sensors in the
  countryside
• Artificial precipitation
  induction & control
• Global environmental-management
  corporations
• Electronic memory
  enhancement
• Many new forms of plants and
  animals from genetic engineering
• Nanobots in toothpaste attack
  plaque
• Fully functioning artificial
  eyes
• Electronic brain implants
• Genetic, chemical, and
  physiological bases of human behavior
  understood
• First Bionic Olympics
• e-babies, genetic
  conception
• DNA compression used to create
  optimal organisms
• Virus crosses over from machine
  to human
• Synthetic immune system
• Artificial peripheral
  nerves
• Sims game using real
  genetics