Earth 2050: Tag #gadgets

2050 Omsk

Technologies such as ray tracing and haptic feedback, considered disruptive today, will be nice and retro in 30 years, just how 8-bit color and text-based quests seem in 2020. Who needs hundreds of frames per second when you can have VR games streamed directly into your brain? Nevertheless, nostalgia

# entertainment # gadgets

2050 Itapema

The mobile content creation devices that future workers will use will be completely hybrid and mutable through advanced chemical and nanorobotics applications. You will have no smartphone, no smartwatch, no tablet, and at the same time, you will have all of these in something that will look like a transparent

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2050 Itapema

Our mobile devices of the future, which will replace corporate tablets and smartphones, will be just like flexible, folding displays, sheets of paper built from two-dimensional materials such as graphene, phosphorene or borophene. These sheets will use subatomic-scale optoelectronic chips, which will

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2050 Rabat

Some designs made for space can descend to Earth. In 2040, a suit first created to support astronauts in zero-G was adapted for medical conditions on the ground. In addition to pressure and atmosphere, the suit uses electric current impulses to contract individual muscles, or muscle groups, according

# gadgets # human # sport

2050 Grayson

Our cell phones, tablets and laptops will all be integrated in one, and the visual displays for augmented reality, using either permanently implanted or temporary contact lenses, all connected wirelessly. Videos will be viewed in true 3D. Old movies from back in the 2020s will be re-rendered on the fly

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2050 Pittsburgh

Once technology for directly implanted neural interfaces is introduced, the cognitive disadvantage to those who choose to limit themselves to nonsurgical options are so great that employers begin requiring that their employees be augmented. This creates a significant amount of global unrest and religious

# biotech # gadgets

2040 Pittsburgh

By 2040, we will have started to transcend the need for physical device interfaces. Advances in external neural scanning allow low-cost-of-entry solutions to thought-to-device based controls for people hesitant to allow unproven technology to be surgically implanted, who represent the majority of the

# gadgets # society

2030 Pittsburgh

By 2030, we will have transcended the need for owning multiple microprocessor-based devices. Instead, everyone will have a core-computing unit, a device that contains a microprocessor, some onboard storage for buffering and offline availability and wireless/cellular radios for cloud connectivity. The

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2050 Kano

The Digital Divide, the gap between those who have access to the Internet and those who do not, is driving inequality in fundamental ways, including in health, education, the ability to generate income, and the capacity for democratic participation. Access to the internet is increasingly recognized

# society # communication # gadgets

2050 San-Franсisсo

The end of smart phones: Time for advanced brain-computer interfaces

By the year 2050, humans will no longer use smart phones. Instead, their brains will be directly connected to the internet through advanced brain-computer interfaces. When someone wants to access information, call a friend, turn on a light, or order a meal, they simply need to think about it, and it

# human # biotech # gadgets

2030 Brussel

Computers have long had the limitation that with every hardware and OS update, ever more older software becomes incompatible. By the 2030s, a new kind of operating system will be developed that will be able to morph its code into whatever form needed to run any program from the past or present. Gone

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2030 Berlin

During the last three years the use of smart devices for personal area networks (PAN) has increased dramatically. People are now wearing not only smart watches and fitness trackers, but also smart glasses and bionic chips. Digital personal assistants will force their owners to live healthily and take

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2050 London

A special type of glass will be produced for sunglasses, cars, and other items and vehicles. A light analyzer will locate the source of bright light and the eye pupil. A simple algorithm will cause a small speck or darkened area to move across the glass, blocking the light source. Externally, it can

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2050

Using augmented reality devices (initially, these are glasses, contact lenses, then a variety of implants, supplementing natural senses) mankind will turn the world into a place much more saturated with information. Many old problems will stay in the past. You can’t remember the name and position

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2030 Seoul

Compact and portable electronics, are extremely popular. To solve the main problem of constant battery energy consumption, scientists have found a way to charge batteries literally on the move. Clothing and accessories are made of sufficiently strong and flexible fabric that is able to generate energy

# clothing # energy # gadgets

2040 Shanghai

Drone technology has become part of everyday life, and the number of drones is increasing at an unprecedented rate. To provide an effective framework for the operation and upkeep of personal and commercial drones, a project aimed at the creation of high-rise terminals and service stations for parking,

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2040 Shanghai

It becomes fashionable to have one’s own intellectual drone that functions as a personal assistant. It always follows the owner at a comfortable distance, can take pictures and shoot videos, send and receive personal e-mail, call the police or a doctor if the owner is in danger, or function as a courier. Personal

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2050 New-York

Almost every inhabitant of the Earth has at least one biotech implant or implanted microchip. Computers, and Google Glass are now the size of contact lenses. Now, to find a necessary media file, it is enough to blink, a playback function is available directly to visual and auditory nerves. This opens

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2050 New-York

A fully-fledged bidirectional brain-computer interface is becoming the dominant system for an efficient information exchange between the human brain and any electronic device. Its most common implementation is in the form of an implantable chip that uses biofeedback. These conditions have paved the

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2050 Canberra

The main disadvantage of umbrellas is their unwieldiness: their domes turn inside out, spokes break, they leak and they splash. All of these annoyances are eliminated with the introduction of a revolutionary new design. It doesn’t have a regular tissue dome, but there is a small motor built into

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