1. Smart glasses
Google Glass – smart goggles from the search giant. They became available in the middle of 2014. The only reason why this technology has not yet become popular is the price. If you want to buy smart points from Google, you will have to spend 1,500 dollars.
But do not throw off smart points. Once, not everyone could afford cell phones. Such titans as Microsoft and Sony are working on their devices. This means that in the near future you can watch videos with seals during the morning jog.
2. Smart Data
Automation is one of the main tasks that modern technologies solve. Although most of the processes in our days are automatic, something we have to do manually. For example, add information to the contact list on your phone. Probably, and you will not have to do it yourself yourself soon.
RelateIQ is already working on a technology that will create a contact based on information about your current contact list, mailbox, messages. In the end, all you need is to name the person. All information will appear on your phone.
3. Wearable electronics
Smart glasses and watches are devices that connect us to the outside world. But there are technologies that connect us with our body. They are developed by large scientific institutes, corporations and small companies. It’s about headphones that measure the heart rate, lenses that monitor blood sugar levels, and tattoos with NFC technology.
As soon as developers can make such gadgets available, the market will fill various implants that will read important information in real time and display it on the same smart glasses.
4. Smart home
This technology has already become a reality. Refrigerators tell you which products end, and the oven can be controlled with your smartphone.
In the future, the oven will learn how to warm up food while you are driving home, and the refrigerator will order food. You can concentrate on more important things at this time.
5. Virtual Reality
Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and PlayStation VR – this is a completely new gaming experience. Of course, science fiction for a long time flirting with the theme of virtual reality, but who thought about it seriously?
Gaming publishers and developers spend millions of budgets to give us new experiences from virtual reality. VR-devices have a lot to grow: they are bulky and with a bunch of wires, but the beginning is laid. Soon we will be able to go anywhere in the world without leaving home.
6. Holographic images
Remember the holographic interfaces in “Star Wars” and “Special Opinion”? Now this technology does not seem anything more fantastic.
The scope of holographic projection is limited not only to games and media. Imagine contact lenses that project the image onto the retina of the eye. People with vision problems can see better without surgery.
7. Neurointerface
The similarity of the neurointerface has long existed and is successfully used in medicine. Quadriplegics – people with complete paralysis of the body – are talking through a neurointerface using a computer.
Of course, the technology is far from perfect. However, with the development of neurotechnologies, a paralyzed person can return to society and live a full life.
8. Universal services
The globalization of the Internet has reached an incredible scale. Get access to the network can be almost anywhere in the world, and in the case of the success of a large-scale Ilona Mask project, the Internet will be available everywhere.
Not surprisingly, there are such services as Uber. This is a taxi, which you can call in almost any country with the help of a mobile application. More recently, Uber has become involved in the delivery of food. Soon, universal services will become even more.
9. Digital Distribution
The world is changing rapidly. Some 15 years ago, we could not imagine that we no longer have to store a stack of CDs with music, movies and games at home. Steam and online cinemas have replaced us with a trip to the store. Instead of a new album of your favorite band, it’s easier to buy a subscription to a music service at a similar price and get access to the entire discography.
Of course, digital distribution has not reached its apogee, and many continue to use physical media, but such people are becoming less.
10. Robots
Robotics for the past 10 years has moved far ahead. Of course, before the advent of terminators will take more than a dozen years, but the machines that can take heavy and monotonous work on their titanium shoulders, will appear in the near future. For example, thanks to the company Boston Dynamics.
11. Biofuel and renewable energy sources
Almost certainly in the next 30 years we will completely move from fossil energy sources to renewable ones. Oil and gas will one day end, but solar and wind energy – no. In addition, solar panels are much more environmentally friendly.
12. Wireless power transmission
Devices and technology every year consume more energy, so we need to ensure its uninterrupted supply. Wireless charging for the phone is just the beginning.
Israel has already tested the road, which will charge the electric car while driving. Apple this year has patented a technology that will allow charging a smartphone over Wi-Fi. If engineers can not create enough capacious batteries, then they will have to do so that they are not discharged at all.
13. 5G-Internet
Constantly growing volumes of Internet traffic set the pace of development of mobile networks. Messengers, video calls, 4K-video and streaming services require new technologies for data transmission, so the emergence of 5G-Internet in the near future is inevitable.
14. Artificial Intelligence
Creating a full-fledged artificial intelligence is only a matter of time. This will be a turning point in the development of human civilization, after which the world will change forever.
In fact, artificial intelligence no longer seems unattainable, especially with the rapid pace of development of neural networks. Machine learning has already reached a high level and is capable of much, including writing scripts, books and songs.
Of course, programs do not work as well as we would like, but a neural network is an excellent example of how we are moving in the right direction.
15. Graphene
In 2004, the first sheet of graphene was released. Since then, scientists are trying to find a way to mass produce the material.
Graphene is a universal material with exceptional properties. It can be used in almost all areas of our life. High-speed data transfer, water purification filters and even the unbreakable case of a smartphone are all graphene. When the production of this material is put on stream, we are waiting for another industrial revolution.
