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Emerging Technology
Timeline - Projection vs Actual, updates timestamped, revisions
Q4 2017
(Q4
2022)
Majority of new cars will be Electric
Large-scale deployment of autonomous fleets
(buses,
taxis, trucks)
Personalized medicine
(gene
editing)
Majority of knowledge workers using XR
Cryptocurrency as major asset class
Dapps providing major services
Voice everywhere
Smart agents
Solar - 10% globally
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_by_country
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAmCa_Vf-0Y
Weather worse
2016
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Elon Musk:
https://www.tesla.com/blog/master-plan-part-deux
Zuck:
http://www.theverge.com/a/mark-zuckerberg-future-of-facebook
2014
Next Big Thing
Oculus Rift - VR w/ Presence, probably the biggest thing to hit gaming since Doom, may actually finally spawn the Metaverse
see
+
Virtual Reality
Bitcoins and alt-coins - once everyone has a wallet and can easily create currencies/leverage distributed ledgers, could change everything
see
+
Adventures with Bitcoin
Useful wrist wearable
(maybe
2015) get killer apps:
Smart Voice Digital Assistant
http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/19/7548059/amazon-echo-review-speaker
Digital Wallet
w/ Biometric auth
(TouchID)
2FA Token/Password Replacements
Fitness Sensors + Smarts
Smart alarm clock
Optimal eating schedule/info
Exercise Tracking
Smart Haptics
VR Input
see
+
Better Wearables
(more hope than prediction) People get serious about privacy - at least on a Snapchat for everything level but hopefully more
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/07/entering-the-era-of-private-and-semi-anonymous-apps/
Better Food
http://on.wsj.com/1xn7eO2
https://www.cals.iastate.edu/news/releases/isu-team-kinosol-awarded-40000-solar-food-dehydrator-innovation
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Q4 2017 (Q4 2022)
2014