Emerging Technology Predictions

What will the future look like considering the now?!

Below are my notes on various sectors and the key companies and technologies that will revolutionize the way humanity operates. This is a constant work in progress so it will likely never be completed, only ever reaching temporary finished states.

People evolve... so to do their tools
Good technology is multi-functional
Software, AI, Automation and Robotics will be the key technologies of the future

Transportation & Logistics

Getting from point A to Point B
We used run, ride horses and pull carriages
Roads, Highways and Interstate systems have evolved based on the medium we travel
Water, Ground and Air are the natural mediums for travel
The steam engine was a major milestone
Combustion engines on a chassis and wheels (Ford Motor Company)
Engines just got better over time. More horsepower, faster and could pull more weight
Not just transporting people, your transporting goods
Why do we still use boats?
- Can they carry more?
- Are they faster?
Fuel... how do we fuel our transportation?

Hyperloop/Maglev

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies | HyperloopTTHyperloopTT

Hyperloop — The Boring CompanyThe Boring Company

Racing technology
- F1

The World is going Self driving

Tesla accelerating the transition to sustainable energy

Electric Cars, Solar & Clean Energy | TeslaTesla

Uber

Uber has a long term vision of a fully self driving fleet of cars. Imagine Netflix but for getting a ride.

UberUber

Lyft

Lyft is an Uber competitor.

Ride or drive with Lyftwww.lyft.com

They are also working on building a self-driving fleet.

Autonomous Ridesautonomous.lyft.com

Amazon Prime Air

Amazon is working on a drone delivery service that will allow even faster delivery

Prime AirAmazon News

Google's Waymo

Waymo - Self-Driving Cars - Autonomous Vehicles - Ride-HailWaymo

Occupation/Business and Commerce

Future Office and workspace
Getting a job
Multi disciplinary and entrepreneurial

Communication

Video
Audio
Text
In person meeting
Natural Language Processing
The Internet
- Satellite
- Space X's Starlink Highspeed Internet
- Cellular
- WiFi 6

Energy

Tesla is working on solar solutions and batteries in the energy category. It seems the market misunderstands Tesla by labeling them as an automotive company. Really they are a robotics, AI and sustainable energy company.

Megapack | TeslaTesla

Finances (Fintech)

Robinhood makes investing easy for the average person.

Robinhood: 24/5 Commission-Free Stock Trading & InvestingRobinhood

Coinbase is a crypto exchange

Coinbase - Buy and Sell Bitcoin, Ethereum, and more with trustcoinbase

Housing/Habitat

iRobot

Healthcare & Biotech

Neuralink is working on brain computer interfaces that will restore prior functionality to people with seriously limiting disabilities, eventually they will make BCIs that give people super powers.

Neuralink — Pioneering Brain Computer InterfacesNeuralink

Neuralink has had two successful human trials. Both have quadrapalegia and have reported life transforming improvements after having the BCI installed.

PRIME Study Progress Update — User ExperienceNeuralink Updates

The senior leadership/engineering team at Neuralink was interviewed on an episode of Lex Fridman's podcast. In this episode their first human trial participant Noland Arbaugh also shares his experience with the interface.

This is an emerging field with several labs surfacing working on BCI technology, in industry and academia.

Some other private labs worth mentioning are Precision Neuroscience and Synchron.

Entertainment

This section needs to be divided into multiple different sectors/categories.

Camera and lenses
Audio
- Headphones
- Speakers
- Microphones
Display tech
- OLED screens
- Projectors
- Holograms
Video
- VOD (Video on Demand)
- Live Streaming
- Long form and short form
Music
Augmented Reality - the real world has a virtual overlay
- Microsoft Hololens
- Magic Leap
- Google glass
- Apple glass
Virtual Reality - completely immersed in a virtual reality or software defined world.
- Meta quest 3
- HTC Vive
All this can be done through a computer

Gaming is going to trend towards the cloud. This allows you to play high end games through any browser, which removes the need for dedicated gaming hardware.