A Technology Timeline compiled by researchers at BT’s futurology department has come up with a list of advances it says will change tomorrow’s world.

It includes:

2016 – 2020: As robots become more sophisticated and involve the addition of organic material into their construction there will be calls for their rights to be safeguarded.

2031 – 2035: At the rate that computer technology advances, they could become more intelligent than their creators.

2051+: Everything in your brain – thoughts, feelings and memories – will be transferred to a computer, ensuring a form of digital immortality if eventually uploaded into a human brain later.