“Technologies that we wonder if we’ll see in our lifetimes”. As of January, 2022 unless noted otherwise.
Lots more to come. Stay tuned!
- Will this list ever be imbedded in our brains? 🙂
- Functional self driving cars
- The disappearance of gas stations
- Personal life recording system
- Spell check that actually works 🙂
- Nuclear fusion
- Quantum computing
- People on the moon (again, and more permanently)
- People on Mars
- Mission to near star
- Pet cloning
- AR glasses
- Thought-controlled systems
- Restorative medical technology (restoring sight, movement, etc.)
- Human cloning
- Germ-line genetic modification
- Neuron-by-neuron human brain mapping
- Brain backup
- Holodeck
- Online voting
- Personal DNA analyzer
- Elimination of our dependence on fossil fuels
- Milestone that demonstrates that we solved global warming
- Universal translator
- All babies sequenced at birth
- 8 billion people in one family tree, using genetics
- 1/2023 Flying cars
- 1/2023 Cryonics