Cool Thing Of The Day: The Future Of Technology To 2050

Jan. 9, 2010
With technology changing ever faster every day, just keeping on top of the present state of the art is hard enough. Given the techno-social revolutions of the past few years, imagine the hubris involved in trying to project decades into the future. Never ...

With technology changing ever faster every day, just keeping on top of the present state of the art is hard enough. Given the techno-social revolutions of the past few years, imagine the hubris involved in trying to project decades into the future.

Never a shy set of writers, Fast Company magazine takes on the task and maps out the future in a handy chart.

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The downloadable pdf maps out their vision of various technological, economic, social and risk predictions through 2050. Everything gets pretty fuzzy (and pretty sci-fi, like cosmetic brain surgery, shopbots, and "virtual communities start physical communities") once you get out past 2015, but that's what futurists do for a living, I guess.

(Side note: I wonder what the state of futurism will be like in 2050?)

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