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
Racing technology
F1
The World is going Self driving
Tesla accelerating the transition to sustainable energy
Uber
Uber has a long term vision of a fully self driving fleet of cars. Imagine Netflix but for getting a ride.
Lyft
Lyft is an Uber competitor.
They are also working on building a self-driving fleet.
Amazon Prime Air
Amazon is working on a drone delivery service that will allow even faster delivery
Google's Waymo
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.
Finances (Fintech)
Robinhood makes investing easy for the average person.
Coinbase is a crypto exchange
Housing/Habitat
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 has had two successful human trials. Both have quadrapalegia and have reported life transforming improvements after having the BCI installed.
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.
Unreal Engine by Epic is transforming gaming and how TV and movies are filmed.
Industrial Light Magic (ILM)
Pixar Animation Studios
Epic
NVIDIA
Blender
OBS
StreamLabs OBS and OBS Ninja
AI Art Generators like Dalle3, Stable Diffusion, Midjourney
Education & Learning
GPT4o1 by OpenAI
Hack The Box
Boot.dev
Khan Academy
SAN.edu
Western Governors University (WGU)
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