During the year 1996 the Magazine Wired asked specialists not simply to predict innovations to come but also to tie them to a particular year, from 1996 to 2225 and beyond.
The predictions were pretty good, and some of them, happened even earlier than expected!
For instance, a Computer defeating human chess master, which were predicted to happen in 2005, happened 8 years before: IBM's Deep Blue defeated Gary Kasparov in 1997.
After thirteen years, they proposed the same experiments and here it is a list of these new predictions, till 2045 (for the full article see):
2017
Energy-efficient buildings
2018
Everything online
The meal-replacement patch
2019
Electro-sex
2020
Artificial intelligence
Humans visit Mars
Affordable genetic prophecy at birth
2021
First conflict based on global warming
Remote controlled surgery
Male birth control
2024
AIDS Vaccine
Microbial diesel provides most of our fuel
2026
Vertical city farms
2029
Lab-grown meat in fast-food restaurants
Intelligent advertising posters
2033
Live to over 100 with ease
2036
Freeze out death with cryogenics
2038
Meet ET
2045
Super-intelligence
I hope I will live enough to check all of them ;-)
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