Earth 2050: Tag #gadgets

2040 Athens

Mass production of drones capable of scanning below earth and underwater will lead to an unforeseen number of archeological discoveries. The traditional way of finding archeological discoveries is by cross-referencing ancient sources and trying to match ancient descriptions of landscapes with today's

# construction # gadgets # nature

2050 Yangon

The development of VR technologies means virtual travel is now almost as good as the real thing. Virtual tourists can both view any landmark in the finest detail from any angle and enjoy a full sensory experience. You can hear the sounds of Niagara Falls, run your hands over the stone walls of Machu

# entertainment # gadgets

2050 Quezon City

Pandemics, remote work services and AI have changed the common appearance of the medicine. If you feel sick, there is no need to visit health clinics with their numerous cabinets, labs and crowds of other sick people (inter-hospital spread of infections was one of the greatest dangers in previous years).

# gadgets # medicine # robots

2030 California

In the past, space tech was unique and classified, so it was hard for an outsider to discover vulnerabilities in space control systems. That’s why hacker attacks on such targets were largely unsuccessful. The situation changed in the 2020s. In modern spacecraft, unique analog devices of

# gadgets # robots # space

2040 Wuhan

The pandemic that has been with us for the past two years has changed the way people think about their health. For many, it led to a realization about how vulnerable the human immune system can be, and today, in most countries, wearing medical masks in public places has already become the norm. At the

# gadgets # medicine

2040

The metaverse is everywhere and contains almost everything: Your digital persona, all your social life, your favorite sources of entertainment, sports, your meetings and interactions at work, your favorite clothes and your NFT art. Most daily activities are performed by your virtual avatar in the metaverse.

# communication # entertainment # gadgets

2030 Hyderabad

The world will be crowded by drones instead of a swarm of people in the locality, people will use VR to travel using drones, while recharging wirelessly on the go and traveling around the world whilst sitting in the comfort of their own home. The world will no longer fear viral contaminations as physical

# entertainment # gadgets

2040 Frankfurt

A number of high-profile hacking incidents have led to an increasing demand from politicians and the media for a computer lockdown. During the late twenties, Apple was first in requiring a certified Apple Developer account in order to run XCode or any other development tool on MacOS. Windows followed

# gadgets # government # society

2040 Silicon Valley

In the future, due to concerns about e-waste and its growing amount, a new type of universal personal computing device is released: This device has no screen and relatively modest specifications, the motherboard being about the size of a modern phone's. The case of this device has exposed

# gadgets

2050 Omsk

Technologies such as ray tracing and haptic feedback, considered disruptive today, will be nice and retro in 30 years, just how 8-bit color and text-based quests seem in 2020. Who needs hundreds of frames per second when you can have VR games streamed directly into your brain? Nevertheless, nostalgia

# entertainment # gadgets

2050 Itapema

The mobile content creation devices that future workers will use will be completely hybrid and mutable through advanced chemical and nanorobotics applications. You will have no smartphone, no smartwatch, no tablet, and at the same time, you will have all of these in something that will look like a transparent

# gadgets

2050 Itapema

Our mobile devices of the future, which will replace corporate tablets and smartphones, will be just like flexible, folding displays, sheets of paper built from two-dimensional materials such as graphene, phosphorene or borophene. These sheets will use subatomic-scale optoelectronic chips, which will

# gadgets

2050 Rabat

Some designs made for space can descend to Earth. In 2040, a suit first created to support astronauts in zero-G was adapted for medical conditions on the ground. In addition to pressure and atmosphere, the suit uses electric current impulses to contract individual muscles, or muscle groups, according

# gadgets # human # sport

2050 Grayson

Our cell phones, tablets and laptops will all be integrated in one, and the visual displays for augmented reality, using either permanently implanted or temporary contact lenses, all connected wirelessly. Videos will be viewed in true 3D. Old movies from back in the 2020s will be re-rendered on the fly

# gadgets

2050 Pittsburgh

Once technology for directly implanted neural interfaces is introduced, the cognitive disadvantage to those who choose to limit themselves to nonsurgical options are so great that employers begin requiring that their employees be augmented. This creates a significant amount of global unrest and religious

# biotech # gadgets

2040 Pittsburgh

By 2040, we will have started to transcend the need for physical device interfaces. Advances in external neural scanning allow low-cost-of-entry solutions to thought-to-device based controls for people hesitant to allow unproven technology to be surgically implanted, who represent the majority of the

# gadgets # society

2030 Pittsburgh

By 2030, we will have transcended the need for owning multiple microprocessor-based devices. Instead, everyone will have a core-computing unit, a device that contains a microprocessor, some onboard storage for buffering and offline availability and wireless/cellular radios for cloud connectivity. The

# gadgets

2050 Kano

The Digital Divide, the gap between those who have access to the Internet and those who do not, is driving inequality in fundamental ways, including in health, education, the ability to generate income, and the capacity for democratic participation. Access to the internet is increasingly recognized

# society # communication # gadgets

2050 San-Franсisсo

The end of smart phones: Time for advanced brain-computer interfaces

By the year 2050, humans will no longer use smart phones. Instead, their brains will be directly connected to the internet through advanced brain-computer interfaces. When someone wants to access information, call a friend, turn on a light, or order a meal, they simply need to think about it, and it

# human # biotech # gadgets

2030 Brussel

Computers have long had the limitation that with every hardware and OS update, ever more older software becomes incompatible. By the 2030s, a new kind of operating system will be developed that will be able to morph its code into whatever form needed to run any program from the past or present. Gone

# gadgets