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):
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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Learning superseded by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Learning superseded by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