Shopping List of Technologies That Will Make Life Really Good… Well, Some Lives’ Lives
July 26, 2017
I read or rather scanned an infographic called “Things to Come: A Timeline of Technology.” Sci fi? Nope, the stuff that makes VCs’ ice cold blood flow just a little bit faster. In terms of search, two entries seem to suggest that finding information will be a semi big thing:
- 2036, The next evolution of AI. Okay, but won’t today’s whiz bang systems get better really rapidly? According to the “Things to Come”, AI has its booster rocker fired in 19 years. Make your hotel reservation the IBM Watson B&B today.
- 2040. Genetic computing. Okay, more than a GIF in a protein chain and less than a quantum computer maybe?
- 2045, Algorithmic advances. Hmm. Algorithms are “evolving” if one is into the genetic algorithms. For the rule-based approaches, that seems to move less rapidly. But advances down the road in 28 years. Seems like a made up target date. But that’s just the view of an old guy in rural Kentucky
What I did like about the VC blood enhancer was this list of buzzwords. How many can you define?
- Eye controlled technology
- Paper diagnostics
- Designer antibiotics
- Ingestible robots
- Smart clothing
- Photonics in space
- Volcanic mining
- Spintronics revolution
- Carbon breathing batteries
- Super antivirals
- Diamond batteries
- Optogenetics
- Nano feasibility
- Unhackable quantum Internet
- Cheap solar power
- Biomimetic materials
- 3D printing in every home
- Fully immersive computer interface
- Self sufficient energy ecosystem
- Germ line genetic modification
- Holograpic pets
- Rapid genetic screening
- Microwave rockets
- Space based solar energy
- Fusion power
- Evolutionary enhancement
- Carbon sequestration
- Geoengineering
- Wavetop and undersea cities
- Geoneutrino satellites.
This list reminds me of my eavesdropping on a group of PC Magazine editors cooking up a list of the Top 10 trends in personal computers or the brainstorming sessions at Booz, Allen when a Top Dog said, “We need to identify hot business trends.”
Anyway, you can use these buzzwords in your LinkedIn résumé or in your next tweet. Better yet, print out the list and look for mid tier consulting firms at the next conference you attend. You can pitch your expertise in wave top and undersea cities and hope the individual with whom you are speaking has never watched the film Waterworld.
Stephen E Arnold, July 26, 2017
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Is it your post or maybe somebody else wrote it? Because i`m thinking about this situation and i don`t know what to think about it. I`m really confused that.