Take a walk back in history to when technology was not as it is now. For example in the year 1820, a person could expect to live less than 35 years, 94% of the global population lived in extreme poverty, and less that 20% of the population was literate.

Today, human life expectancy is over 70 years, less that 10% of the global population lives in extreme poverty, and over 80% of people are literate. These improvements are due mainly to advances in technology, beginning in the industrial age and continuing today in the information age.

There are many exciting new technologies that will continue to transform the world and improve human welfare. Here are eleven of them.

1. Self-Driving Cars



Self-driving cars exist today and are safer than human-driven cars in most driving conditions. Over the next 3-5 years, they’ll get even safer, and will begin to go mainstream.

2. Clean Energy


Attempts to fight climate change by reducing the demand for energy haven’t worked. Fortunately, scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs have been working hard on the supply side to make clean energy convenient and cost-effective.

3. Virtual and Augmented Reality


Computer processors only recently became fast enough to power comfortable and convincing virtual and augmented reality experiences. Companies like Facebook, Google, Apple, and Microsoft are investing billions of dollars to make VR and AR more immersive, comfortable, and affordable.

4. Drones and Flying Cars


GPS started out as a military technology but is now used to hail taxis, get mapping directions, and hunt Pokemon. Likewise, drones started out as a military technology but are increasingly being used for a wide range of consumer and commercial applications.

5. Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence has made rapid advances in the last decade, due to new algorithms and massive increases in data collection and computing power.

6. Pocket Supercomputers for Everyone

By 2020, 80% of adults on earth will have an internet-connected smartphone. An iPhone 6 has about 2 billion transistors, roughly 625 times more transistors than a 1995 Intel Pentium computer. Today’s smartphones are what used to be considered supercomputers.

7. Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains

Protocols are the plumbing of the internet. Most of the protocols we use today were developed decades ago by academia and government. Since then, protocol development mostly stopped as energy shifted to developing proprietary systems like social networks and messaging apps. Cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies are changing this by providing a new business model for internet protocols. This year alone, hundreds of millions of dollars were raised for a broad range of innovative blockchain-based protocols.

8. High-Quality Online Education



While college tuition skyrockets, anyone with a smartphone can study almost any topic online, accessing educational content that is mostly free and increasingly high-quality.

9. Better Food through Science

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nice, although it frightens me knowing that one day my great grand kids will also look back to this age and shake their heads too......maybe then we have people building homes in clouds I guess

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nice, although it frightens me knowing that one day my great grand kids will also look back to this age and shake their heads too......maybe then we have people building homes in clouds I guess

There would have been artificial world by then.

It is a sacrifice to be a scientist but a priviledge to contribute to it.

How I wish I can re-live within the next 10-20 centuries...

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