Tell me, what is this “eye-phone”, Mr. Jobs?
Angua is obviously that time traveler talking on a cell phone in that old silent film clip.
Energy HAS to be radically improved or people must get used to staying home under super-insulation (also needing incredibly great improvement).
Algae producing hydrogen for fuel cells is an idea of the kind of thing we need - direct photovoltaic devices with 90+% efficiency would be ideal. Currand solar technology is incredibly expensive and inefficient.
Housing: We either control population* or give up the idea of having large back yards and big houses.
Economy: This is the stuff of revolutions. The US is leading the way. In the last 50 years, we have gone from considering someone who is homeless as an emergency to be dealt with before sundown, to having large encampments of the homeless. 50 years ago, only the occasional wino would ask for a handout. Today, we look at beggars (haven’t heard that term lately, have you?) the same way as the folks in third world countries look at theirs - just walk around them and hope it doesn’t disturb you by talking.
As more and more jobs are replaced by machine, there will be more and more people for which there is no work. Someway must be devised to distribute the wealth based on something other than (unneeded) labor. We really should not use warfare as population control.
Medicine: we haven’t begun to understand how the bodies work or how to fix them. Cutting someone open and removing diseased tissue is incredibly crude. We know a great deal about how cancers spread, but we still have no means of keeping
Three out of four are correct.
In common usage, the word hologram is used to mean a 3d image, today 3D computer monitors and TVs are mainstream.
Voice recognition has matured even futher as an imput method, I ‘wrote’ this post without touching my keyboard.
You can get a weightloss shot of natural hormones, it’s called leptin and it greatly speeds weightloss, it hasn’t become mainstream though, as it’s expensive and needs to be injected daily.
Interesting relevant article about graphene: Graphene: Patent surge reveals global race - BBC News
E-books may have been under development in 2000, but they didn’t exist as a consumer item.
Wheeled luggage could have been invented at least 100 years before it actually was. Why wasn’t it? Not ever the next big thing of course, but an invention.
The next big thing will be a glrrk. What does it do? Damfino; if I knew I would invent it myself.
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Because, well, excuse me, Mr Seldon…
but if you can’t tell us what the future holds, does that mean that Isaac Asimov was a liar?
I heard that Google could be up to something about making glasses that work like a phone. So you can control your phone with your eyes or something like that.
Commonly called “Teledildonics”.