18 Trends and Breakthroughs Likely to Change Your Life in the Years Ahead

Forecasts for 2011-2025

World Future Society
The Futurist (magazine)

1.Water Becomes the New Oil

2.WiMAX Creates Countrywide Wireless

3.By 2025, the Worldwide Average Life Span Will be Increasing by One Year Per Year

4.The Race for Genetic Enhancements Will Be What the Space Race Was in the 20th Century

5.Bioviolence Becomes A Greater Threat

6.The Holy Grail of Computers Becomes a Reality

7.Green Gold: Algae’s Huge Potential As Biofuel

8.The Coming Automation of Invention

9.New Oil from Old Wells

10.Nanotechnology May Alter the Value of Diamonds and Other Precious Commodities

11.Consumers will Take Active Roles in Inventing New Products and Services

12.Electric Cars Become Fully Practical by 2020

13.The Millennial Generation Becomes the Next Great Generation

14.Quantum Computers Revolutionize Information Around 2021

15.Breakthrough Doubles Solar Energy Output

16.Genetic Research May Soon Conquer Most Inherited Diseases

17.Japan Dominates the Race for Personal Robots

18.Virtual Education to Enter the Mainstream by 2015

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One response to “18 Trends and Breakthroughs Likely to Change Your Life in the Years Ahead

  1. gbranecky

    My two to watch are Water Becomes the New Oil and Virtual Education to Enter the Mainstream by 2015.

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