Technology Innovation Areas For 2025

Kyle Spector writes "A global futurist research firm convened an expert panel to forecast the major areas and potential advances in technology innovation through the year 2025. This blog entry contains the full list of 12 areas and some details about each, including personalized medicine, distributed energy, pervasive computing, and nanomaterials."

Comments

I know the first two!

[stormguard2099]

1. Penis enlargement
2. Hair regeneration

Re:I know the first two!

[laejoh]

I'm already lobbying the Ubuntu release team to name one of their next releases 'Hairy Hardon!'

Re:pfft...the 'predictions' are a joke, right?

[Walt Dismal]

Frankly, I think predictions #28: "Playstation 9 will sweep market", #31: "Blu-Ray 3D conquers adult entertainment market", #60: "President Chelsea Clinton announces new Green Initiative with husband Tommy Lee Gore", and #81: "Windows 2025 requires 16 TB PC memory and delivers faultless DRM with only 23 minute bootup time" are all too likely to come true. However, I'm rooting for #110, "RealDoll 2025 cooks, vacuums, and comes with MUTE button" and #111, "Android-Human marriage legalized".

Re:consultants ?

[MichaelSmith]

good luck with your self steered 2025 car.

I want to know how he plans to make my bicycle steer itself in 2025.

Re:pfft...the 'predictions' are a joke, right?

[skoaldipper]

What a cronjob
# With the initial mapping of the human genome, scientists are moving rapidly toward the following likely breakthroughs for gene-based products and services:
* 47 6 * * 7 root test -x /usr/bin/creation --individual --genome ~/.map && /usr/bin/sh retail-price -lt 1000 | exit

Fixed it for you.

Re:Utopia or Dystopia?

[Stooshie]

... In Brownian Britain, the flying cars are watching you! ...

In Brownian Britain all our citizens just move about randomly bashing into each other.