2008-02-02

Technological advances in the next 25 year

PC World predictions about technological advances in the next 25 years, including devices that deliver information and entertainment to our homes and our pockets, sensors that monitor our environment and chips that deliver augment reality inside our bodies.
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Five Sci-Fi Scenarios That Will Come True

In the next 25 years, these technological advances, made famous in movies and on TV, will become reality. How accurate are our prognostications? Check back with us in 2033.

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Biometric Security (predicted mainstream date: 2010)
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Space Tourism (predicted mainstream date: 2013)
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The Holodeck (predicted mainstream date: 2016)
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Self-Aware Computers (predicted mainstream date: 2019)
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Domestic Robots (predicted mainstream date: 2020)

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Via: KurzweilAI.net
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