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Future timeline to 2030 !

April 2nd, 2009 Atos Blog Tags: 3D printers, 3D TV, AI, augmented reality, barcodes, bionic computing, cashless society, collective intelligence, computer vision, DNA storage, hydrogen fuel, IPTV, RFID, robots, semantic web, smart energy, smart goods, The Future!
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We want to find out what the wider internet thinks the future will look like. As a start, we’ve banged our heads together and come up with how we think the future is shaping up to look – but this is just the first step! We need your views, opinions and predictions so we can build the web’s most diverse, crowd-sourced view of how the future looks.

Every month we will update to reflect your comments and we can’t wait to see how that is going to change over time. To give you some food-for-thought, check out Look Out, our website containing our annual trend analysis reports.

Whats your opinion of the future, when do you think these things will happen?

• Hydrogen fuel on the forecourts
• Cashless society
• DNA storage
• RFID replaces barcodes
• Computer vision
• AI overtakes human brain
• Smart white goods in the home
• Ubiquitous network connectivity
• Emotionally responsive devices
• 3D printers mainstream
• Robots superior to humans
• Single ‘virtual me’ on the Web
• Semantic Web reaches tipping point
• Cybercrime becomes bigger than theft
• IPTV becomes mainstream
• TV in 3D
• Households push energy back to the grid
• Brain-computer interface
• Augmented Reality
• Collective Intelligence
• Bionic Lens
• 4G
• Multi-Agent Systems
• Multi-touch interfaces
• Virtual retinal display