The Next 25 Years in Tech

February 1, 2008 | Source: PC World

PC World predicts that in the next 25 years, technology will become firmly embedded in advanced devices that deliver information and entertainment to our homes and our hip pockets, in sensors that monitor our environment from within the walls and floors of our homes, and in chips that deliver medicine and augment reality inside our bodies.

Technologies and the dates they are forecast to become mainstream:

  • Biometric Security: 2010
  • Space Tourism: 2013
  • The Holodeck: 2016
  • Self-Aware Computers: 2019
  • Domestic Robots: 2020