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Friday, February 15, 2008

Pure Speculations

Well, provided we don't bomb ourselves out of existence, and everything's good, here's what will transpire:
2008: touch screen cellphones picking up.
2009: touch screen becomes main stream.
2010: followed up by multi-touch in screen based UI.
2011: transparent screen commercialized.
2013: Hybrid cars picking up momentum.
2014: transparent screen becomes pervasive. 3D fab@home becoming popular.
2015: optics-based microprocessor demonstrated. Data clouds becoming popular.
2016: First practical Quantum computer demonstrated; not suitable for normal use.
2017: Breakthrough in prosthetics. Data clouds become mainstream.
2018: gasoline cars phasing out in the US. Taken over by hybrid cars.
2019: maglev trains appear in major cities/airports. 3D fab@home goes mainstream.
2020: breakthrough in information processing. space travel becomes affordable to the rich.
2021: breakthrough in organ cloning. Scientists teleport molecule. East Asia rises to top.
2022: Electromagnetic plasma based mid-air Hovering technology demonstrated. First space lift built.
2023: first practical and truly safe urban driverless vehicle demonstrated. Sinosphere still nascent.
2024: UAVs become more sophisticated. US sets up moon base. Competition ensues.
2025: solar energy become one of major energy sources. Scientists teleport molecule chains.
2026: cabs are made driverless. Organ shortage solved. Nanotech goes mainstream.
2027: Robots appear at home. Simple chores. Sinosphere goes mainstream.
2028: US's 30% of airforce based on UAVs. Severe finance cut back.
2030: Human mind-Computer Interface adapted in certain fields. Satellite wireless energy beaming.
2031: Miniature nanotech Sattelites sent to Jupiter's moons.
2032: Hovering technology used in rapid transportation of products.
2033: Maglev for vehicles commercialized. Major routes designed for maglev.
2035: First breakthrough for AI. Not necessarily human-like.
2036: Antiparticles harvesting breakthrough. Nuclear energy goes mainstream.
2037: Manned landing on Mars. Competition ensues. Breakthrough in teleportation tech.
2040: More powerful particle accelerators. Teleportation of nano devices demonstrated.
2041: Human mind-Computer Interface widely adapted to telecommunications.
2042: Polymorphic buildings demonstrated. Breakthrough in Matter-Antimatter propulsion.
2043: Most homes have robots. Can do sufficiently sophisticated tasks.
2044: Second breakthrough for AI. Human-like. Small scale terraforming of Mars.
2045: Maglev vehicles become pervasive.
2046: space travel becomes affordable to the mid-incomes.
2047: Teleportation works for everyday sized objects. True Virtual Reality era takes off.
2049: Matter-antimatter propelled space vehicle demonstrated.
2050: Solves theory of everything. More questions posed.
2051: Artificial sentient beings created.
2052: Matter-antimatter propulsion goes mainstream.
2053: Megastructures go mainstream. City on ocean. Tall towers.
2054: Breakthrough in artificial creativity. Explosion of novel solutions.
2056: Attempts to test theories related to warp drives.
2058: Robots become pervasive and sophisticated.
2059: City-scale terraforming of Mars. First martian born.
2060: Polymorphic structures in major cities.
2063: Builds outpost on Jupiter's moons.
2065: Overpopulation taking its toll on resources. Young people outnumbered.
2068: Migration to more extreme climates.
2070: Warp drive breakthrough. 1C achieved.
2073: Faster-than-light (FTL) travel achieved.
2075: Unmanned interstellar exploration begins.
2080: First contact with Alpha Centauri.
2083: Mass exodus to Mars.
2095: Manned interstellar exploration begins. Destination: Pluto.
2100: Mankind celebrates 2nd century of technology era.
2105: City-scale terraforming of Pluto. Pluto fifth outpost in space (after moon, mars and a couple moons around Jupiter)
22nd century: Solar/Nuclear energy is primary source. Starts considering larger scale energy production.
23rd century: Mankind attains Type I civilization. Able to control planet-scale energy.
30th century: Transhuman era.
31st century: Mankind attains Type II civilization. Able to control Star-scale energy.
50th century: Mankind spreads to a significant fraction of the Milky Way galaxy.
90th century: Mankind attains Type III civilization. Able to control Galaxy-scale energy.
100th century: Mankind able to manipulate subspace dimensions.

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