We are literally living in a time of progress that’s merging people intelligence with technology as we have never witnessed before. Future inventions we hope will make our life more comfortable and safe.
The future holds unparalleled visions of progress. We're privileged to be living in a time where science and technology can assist us, make our lives more comfortable and rethink the ways we go about our daily lives. It is within this phantom time that's yet come to past where we manifest our hopes, dreams and even worst fears. One certainty that seems to us like an inevitability, is the continual forward march of technological progress. Young people of today know only of a time of unprecedented exponential technological growth. While we've had our fair share of inventive breakthroughs in the past that have changed the world, the dazzling and world-making inventions of the future will change the world in even stranger and greater ways.
There's no telling what the futuristic inventions of the world hold, but we can start by taking a few amazing and unbelievable ideas.
The technology we're already exposed and accustomed to has paved the way for us to innovate further, and this list of current and future technologies certainly have the potential to make our lives more. Here's our list of innovations that will "probably" make our lives amazing over the next decade:
1. Wireless electricity.
What started out as an experiment – a light bulb came to life in the middle of the room without any wires attached to it – is being realized into reality. Transferring power without wires sounds impossible but it’s a lot of companies is developing what is known as wireless ‘resonance’ technology that can do just that. By placing a magnetic field in the air, any device that’s brought near it can be induced with electricity minus the chords. Transferrable current, if you may!
2. Internet for everyone.
We can’t seem to live without the internet, but still only around half the world’s population is connected. There are many reasons for this, including economic and social reasons, but for some, the internet just isn’t accessible because they have no connection. Internet for everyone or orbital internet to which you will connect in any city where you will be located will give people more safe use the internet and also people who have a business on the internet can work safer because in some cities observed the unhealthy competition in relation to small business, start-ups, and peoples who start their work in internet. Because internet platform can give smart and creative people hope and chance so that people can realize their work or projects more effectively and make money for life. Google is slowly trying to solve the problem using helium balloons to beam the internet to inaccessible areas, while Facebook has abandoned plans to do the same using drones, which means companies like Hiber are stealing a march. They have taken a different approach by launching their own network of shoebox-sized microsatellites into low Earth orbit, which wake up a modem plugged into your computer or device when it flies over and delivers your data. Their satellites orbit the Earth 16 times a day and are already being used by organizations like The British Antarctic Survey to provide internet access to very extreme of our planet.
3. Flying Car.
The dream of the flying car simply won't go away. Glenn Curtiss rolled out Autoplane in 1917, the first attempt at such a vehicle, and the design trend continues to this day. Terrafugia's TF-X is a newer hybrid design from its older Transition models, but the basic design still breaks down to a vehicle that functions as both an automobile and an airplane. The popular dream of flying cars, however, lands us slap-dab in the middle of hoverboard country, where we're forced to contemplate the bugbear that is antigravity technology. While the ability to manipulate antigravity would transform transportation immensely, the subject is largely taboo in research circles due to numerous hoaxes and unfounded claims. This doesn't mean serious minds aren't interested. Between 1996 and 2002, NASA's Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Project explored the possibilities of antigravity. Often the refrain of many critics lambasting the out of touch futurist predictions we've heard for years. But that may change. Without getting too far ahead of ourselves, a number of companies such as Uber, have announced their intention to create an air taxi fleet. This has jump-started a new era of innovation and actual work being done to create flying cars. In actuality, these current prototypes often resemble oversized quadcopter drones. Flying cars, whether they are roaring drones or speculative fiction Blade-runner hover cars have the possibility to really shake up the landscape and infrastructure of our world.
4. Autonomous cars.
Whether it’s Google or Tesla, autonomous vehicles are getting closer to reality to change the way we commute. Because cars that can pilot themselves with minimum people input are the way forward in a world that’s plagued with traffic and accidents. And it’s not only Google and Tesla that are showing off their technology. BMW announced a research-and-development project and Delphi put all its brains behind the wonder that is autonomous driving. If things pan out as we would soon be embracing fully-automated driving that lets us work on the run and reduces congestion.
5. Personal robot assistants.
Our robot butlers have been a collective dream for nearly the past century. Years before any actual valid science in the realm of robotics or machine learning even existed, the cartoonish and fictionalized representation of the robot butler was stained into cultural memory. Whether it was the cartoon Jetsons or Asimov's breakthrough science fiction, we've always had a special place in our hearts for these anthropomorphic household serfs. While industrial robots have been on the scene for decades, the world of commercial personal robots has been a disappointing affair of either vaporware or highly specialized products released like the robot vacuum. Smart devices like Amazon's Alexa and Apple's Siri are steps in the right direction and revolutionary tech in their own right. But the invention and proliferation of an all-purpose general AI robot assistant as ubiquitous as the smartphone are where the real future is at.
7. Drown forest fires in sound.
Forest fires could one day be dealt with by drones that would direct loud noises at the trees below. Since sound is made up of pressure waves, it can be used to disrupt the air surrounding a fire, essentially cutting off the supply of oxygen to the fuel. At the right frequency, the fire simply dies out, as researchers at George Mason University in Virginia recently demonstrated with their sonic extinguisher. Apparently, bass frequencies work best.
8. Wearable screens.
We might be currently daydreaming of foldable phones and screens, but the future might well be screenless. There are already plenty of touch-capable projector-like devices that can beam usable screens onto your skin, clothing or other surfaces. The future of smartphone tech might not even require a device in your pocket but something you wear or have implanted.
9. Space tourism.
We can fly to virtually any country in the world without any trouble, but what if we could all one day see the earth from space? Companies such as Virgin Galactic, SpaceX, and even Amazon's Blue Origin, want to make it a reality one day and give us a (very expensive) seat aboard a spaceship to take us into orbit. Passengers on Amazon's New Shepard space shuttle will be taken 100km above sea level, before parachuting back to earth.
10. Read Thoughts.
Will, there be a day when you say "I can't read your mind, you know!" and the reply will be "Oh, stop it -- of course you can!"? It could happen. Neuroscientists are finding ways to read people's minds with machines, and although this has been in the works for decades, true progress is being made by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and elsewhere. Translating electrical activity from the brain by centers of decoding brainwaves is one way to help sufferers of dementia, for example, who have complications with neurotransmitters relaying thoughts into comprehensible speech or holding thoughts long enough to get them out verbally before they're forgotten. On another hand, it is more than a little frightening to know that science and machines could soon have access to our innermost thoughts. Implications for neurohacking into people's thoughts have also been studied in relation to neuromarketing, which targets people's brains by manipulating their wants and desires through marketing and advertising. Our thoughts and actions could actually be hijacked by a form of media that makes us think we're getting what we want when really, we're going for something our brains may only think is supposed to be good.
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