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## 1. Happening now ##
>> VERY SOON <<
Smart nappies
Cryptocurrencies (Y)
Robotic care companions (XY)
Distributed ledgers (Y)
>> SOON <<
Deep ocean wind farms
Concentrated solar power
Smart controls and appliances (XY)
Precision agriculture (Y)
>> A BIT LATER <<
Vertical agriculture (Y)
Predictive policing (Y)
Cultured meat (XY)
Autonomous vehicles (XY)
>> LATER <<
Wireless energy transfer (XY)
Micro-scale ambient energy harvesting (Y)
Delivery robots & passenger drones (XY)
Intention decoding algorithms (XYZ)
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## 4. Fringe science & technology ##
Defined as highly improbable,
but not actually impossible.
>> MUCH LATER <<
Digital footprint eraser (XY)
Personal digital shields (XY)
Human head transplants
Human cloning & de-extinction
>> MUCH MUCH LATER <<
Distributed autonomous corporations (Y)
Space solar power (Y)
Space elevators (XY)
Fully immersive virtual reality (XYZ)
>> MUCH MUCH MUCH LATER <<
Artificial consciousness
Asteroid mining
Force fields
Beam-powered proposing
Zero-point energy
Self-reconfiguring modular robots
Space-shifting matter
Whole Earth virtualization
Reactionless drive
Telepathy
We can't talk about this one
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## 2. Near future (10-20 years) ##
>> SOONER 10-20 <<
Medical tricorders
Smart flooring & carpets (XY)
Mega-scale desalination
Self-writing software (Y)
Predictive gene-based health care (XY)
Automated knowledge discovery (XYZ)
>> A BIT LATER 10-20 <<
Diagnostic toilets (XY)
Smart energy grids (Y)
Public mood monitoring (XYZ)
Programmable bacteria
Autonomous robotic surgery
Emotionally aware machines (XYZ)
>> LATER 10-20 <<
Balloon-powered internet (XYZ)
Powered exoskeletons (XY)
Airborne wind turbines
Avatar companions (XYZ)
Autonomous ships & submarines (XY)
Resource gamification (Y)
Drone freight delivery (XYZ)
Autonomous passenger aircraft (XY)
Algal biofuels
Human-organ printing
Peer-to-peer energy trading & transmission (Y)
Lifelong personal avatar assistants (XYZ)
Humanoid sex robots (XYZ)
Human bio-hacking
>> MUCH LATER 10-20 <<
Computerized shoes & clothing (XYZ)
Metallic hydrogen energy storage
Water harvesting from air
3D-printing of food & farmaceuticals (XY)
Artificial human blood substitute
Smart dust (XYZ)
Internet of DNA (XYZ)
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## 3. Distant future (20 years+) ##
>> SOONER 20+ <<
Planetary-scale spectroscopy
Implantable phones (XY)
e-tagging of humans (XYZ)
Conversational machine interfaces (XYZ)
Life-expectancy algorithms (XYZ)
Stratospheric aerosols
>> A BIT LATER 20+ <<
Male pregnancy & artificial wombs
DNA data storage (XY)
Genomic vaccines
Quantum safe cryptography (XY)
AI advisors & decision-making machines (XYZ)
AI board members & politicians (Y)
Invisibility shields (XY)
>> LATER 20+ <<
Vacuum-tube transport (XY)
Smart glasses & contact lenses (XY)
Broadcasting of electricity (Y)
Swarm robotics (Y)
New materials (Y)
Low-cost space travel (XY)
Thought control - machine interfaces (XYZ)
Cognitive prosthetics (X)
Factory photosynthesis
>> MUCH LATER 20+ <<
Scramjets (XY)
Pollution-eating buildings (Y)
Bio-plastics (Y)
4-dimensional materials (XYZ)
Fusion power (Y)
Planet colonialization (XY)
Dream reading & recording (X)
Data uploading to the brain (XYZ)
Transhuman technologies (XYZ)
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