You are the average student. You are twenty one on the dawn of 2014. You’ll have a lifespan of about 100. You are also the first generation who’s lived in a technology field that greatly changes every two or three years so are will be able to keep up with the technological changes all your life until 2093. It’ll be the most important century in civilisations history for the survival of the human race. And here’s how it’ll go.
Age 21 : 2014
Facebook is your life
This basically means that Social Media is one of the main ways you interact with technology. Technology only really effects how you socialise in any great way and how you learn in a medium way. It’s only really starting to effect how you do business in a real way.
Accuracy : Definite
Age 25 : 2018
Gucci starts doing wearables
Major fashion labels start doing pair ups with Apple & Google to create the most fashionable tech wearable. Tech smart-glasses, smart watches, dresses and hats are the must have items. Lady Gaga is probably implanting speakers in her breasts by this stage.
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Accuracy : 50/50
Age 30 : 2023
Driverless Cars become more real
Although you will have seen news stories and mentions of driverless cars in America around now you’ll have your first real interactions in the real world with them. This is due to falling prices and legalisation around this point by the EU wide directives.
Accuracy : Definite
Age 37 : 2030
Everyone’s an Engineer
The standard household now has a 3D printer capable of printing complex metal fixtures. This allows the fixing of nearly all household appliances by anyone. Worldwide consumer bodies start requiring companies to provide 3D images for specific parts for repairs.
Accuracy : Fair chance
Age 47 : 2040
Your not-so-Jetson Space holiday awaits
At this point due to your solidifying professional life (ie. financial status) and crashing costs you start to plan your first space travel holiday. This will be like today, a short few hour trip into the edge of what can be considered our atmosphere more than space travel. However for the truly flush there is a newly set up space hotel that is really just a privately owned ISS. Private Space travel have overtaken government by this time.
Accuracy : Almost definite
Age 52 : 2045
Geo-Engineering begins in Earnest
As the First World Population approaches half the planet this puts a strain on world resources. An international body like the UN starts large scale experimenting on controlling the earths temperature. Most likely with injecting chemicals into the atmosphere to control the atmospheres intake of light. There will be massive “Temperature” debates and worldwide controversy for the rest of your life over who can control the earths temperature. They will probably settle on something like the year 2000 AD as an arbitrary “correct” temperature.
Accuracy : It’s this or third world Armageddon
Age 60 : 2053
Most computers are not only smarter than you, but more creative
This is actually the most unsure of the predictions by far. AI is the most uncontrollable prediction in our future. Whether we start to build AI’s that not only mimic our functions, but can actually feel.
In pairing with this the first real militant AI rights groups start about now. Mimicking the acts of militant animal liberation groups of the 21st century.
Accuracy : No one has a clue really
Age 62 : 2055
The World fills out and smarts up
population maxes out at 9 – 10 Billion
The population of the world maxes out at 9 – 10 Billion around this time. It will not pass this point in your or your childrens’ life time. Also by this time the vast majority of the world will have instant access to high quality computing and internet, even if it means they go hungry to pay for it.
Accuracy : Excluding some major world disaster
Age 70 : 2063
You buy your first humanoid home robot aide
Humanoid Robots being hacked in your home is rare
Only if you are infirm but humanoid robot companions are not only commonplace but very affordable. The only have a rudimentary for the time by regulation and them being hacked is rare but widely publicised in the tech scares of the sixties.
Accuracy : Give or take 20 years
Age 80 : 2073
Cheapo Avatar begins
After years of private enterprise pushing into space both it and the government start harvesting asteroids for high grade metals. The process has been theorized for a century and goes smoothly first time. It’ll eventually become the first port of call for all precious metals as asteroids are so mineral rich.
Accuracy : It’s this or massive technological collapse
Age 90 : 2083
You do something unthinkable with a Whizzbang
Futurism, while fun, is a dark art. The darkest part of which is the absence of knowledge of the spectacularly not invented. Not a bendable phone or a better computer. Something unthinkable that would appear as magic to the ancient Luddites of 2014.
Accuracy : Absolutely definite
Age 100 : 2093
You die, or do you?
You probably die roughly around this time unless a medical discovery greater than any other is made that helps partially cure old age. Maybe made by the now world dominating Health Company that is Google.
Accuracy : Tarot card stuff
So, how do you think we did? Or what do you think would change.
