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Technology is advancing at a significant rate, with the developments of even past five years in terms of smartphones, fibre optic Internet, and transportation representing strides forward from the previous ten years. However, how far can technology go? What are some of the future forms of technology that may be a reality, if not in our lifetimes, but within subsequent generations? While it’s always difficult to make these kind of predictions, there are some areas that can be speculated on, from communications to medicine, travel, the environment, and robotics, and how they might deliver results in the future.
Communications
It’s likely that mobile phone technology and the Internet will become increasingly wireless and driven by human and artificial integration. In this context, phones could progress from being wearable (the expected trend of the next few years), through to being used through an inbuilt chip that provides virtual displays.
The same technology could then be integrated with the Internet for constant access through the use of nano technology and chips. All entertainment could be sent through these connections, while 3D and virtual reality technologies could eventually become commonplace for watching content.
Medicine
The hope is that future technology will be able to use genetic and DNA therapy to provide treatments to cancer and other chronic illnesses and viruses. The theoretical ability to use DNA sequencing to identify health problems far in advance of them spreading, and developing drugs that can significantly lower the chances of disease, are also possible. Similarly, medicine is likely to become increasingly personalised, whereby people are able to take and send their own blood samples.
Travel
The future of travel will be arguably limited by both the rate of virtual travel, and the theoretical possibility of hypersonic planes, and travelling faster than the speed of light. Realistic virtual tourism may become the way for people to avoid pollution charge and overcrowding. Space travel should also, theoretically, advance to the point of commercial transportation, or via space elevators. Vehicles may also become frictionless, and fully automated in terms of navigation. Time travel remains the great technology of the future, albeit one that will have to overcome some large theoretical barriers to actually work.
Environment
Future technologies could help to ease environmental problems through weather controlling and filtration systems that can reduce the damage of CO2 emissions. Other potential technologies could terraform other planets for habitation, while being able to treat and restore damaged areas of the Ozone layer. The more general development of molecular and clean transportation solutions could also reduce the harmful effects of travel, while new technologies could result in all bio-degradable packaging.
Robotics
The future of robotics will be tied to funding, and the ability to successfully reproduce human actions and thought within artificial beings. Robots are already being used to dispose of bombs, and to help in crisis situations. Future robotic technologies could be used in law enforcement, safe transportation, and healthcare. Implants and cybernetic technologies could similarly help to provide fully functional limb and organ replacements.
Author Bio: Liam Ohm is a regular blogger in the technology world with a passion for future technologies. He highly recommends education supplies from Rapid Online for the latest range of electronic products.
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The Technology are growing very fast now a days.Because everyone want to feel comfortable and good.I can surely that the man has reach at moon and after some time it can be that he will start to live there soon.
Hey, Liam! Great post! I was really interested in this article because nowadays we’re basically dependent on technology!
Technology now a days is like alternative to food.One cannot live without having influence of technology in his life.And it is not going to end not now and not in future.The way you have described the role of technology in this post is amazing Larry.Great going. 🙂
Technology is growing so fast that we cant even track it. Everyday new and new technology adding to our life. In some way its great but in other hand we cant even know whats new and old. Thanks for the post.
all of us can not forcasting about technology that how far it may go or advance.because it is a era of technology because it provide many facilities which are comfortable to us and feel happy.
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What a great allocation man! Just look behind ten years and now look the present age. Now think what is the difference between past and present. It’s totally amazing change I’ve seen. In the near future we can not think whatever waiting for us by the assist of technology!! 🙂
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Really.. technology is advancing like a wildfire. And genuinely, no one can tell how far it can go. And we are actually surrounded by technology in one or the other way. What I believe is that next thing that is going to change the world is artificial intelligence. Just wait and watch is all we can say.