Upcoming technologies of the 21st century

Humanity in the 21st century has made the greatest progress in the world of smartphones and AI. Smartphones have already become a mature technology which is spread across the globe and is now far more limited in terms of improvements that can be made that would matter to the average consumer. This is the first sign of what is to come in the 21st century, technologies that revolutionize society within a generation and then become so old that there are not many further upgrades to be made to them, resulting in other new technologies being invested in over time.

It is due to this rapid rate of technological growth across the century that we may expect a new technology to emerge and mature every decade, as investment moves from one great innovation to another every single decade. Technology also continues to evolve upon its predecessor which again limits the scope of what new technologies may emerge, making it easier to track the further development of global technologies.

Let us use such a decade by decade and iterative perspective to determine the upcoming technologies that we may find through the 21st century:

The 2000s:

This was the time period when the internet explosion took off. It was the most transformative technology of the century, acting as the base upon which all other technologies of this century developed. The internet explosion ensured that all the money and innovation would go towards electronics instead of infrastructure over time. It was the first real shift away from only wanting physical products for the average consumer.

The 2010s:

This was the period when the mobile phone took off. Smartphones became common place across the world and a mobile phone could be found in the hands of even the old and the most rural of villages. Internet continued to get faster and now we had 4g internet standards. This was also when society had become interconnected enough on the back of the internet that entire new business strategies could be built upon taking old concepts and adding the internet enabled fast communication across them. We saw the maturation of social media, taxi services such as Ola and Uber, and the successful launch of partially reusable space rockets.

The 2020s:

The 2020s saw the AI boom, where AI scaled up in capabilities even faster than moore's law. Nvidia became one of the highest valued technology companies of the decade on the back of success based off of its innovation and development of AI supporting GPUs, using the constantly evolving AI to help build even more advanced GPUs to further advance the field of AI. The 2020s were the time when people were unsure as to whether an AI as smart as a human was just a decade away or two decades away. The 2020s also saw the successful launch of the world's first fully reusable rockets. The 2020s also saw even faster internet and an even more interconnected world with 5g internet coming online and spreading across the world.

The 2030s:

The 2030s was when AI finally reached parity with the smartest humans alive. The 6g internet standard was passed which made pretty much all information sharing of any variety at the consumer level pretty much seamless as even full scale movies and tv shows could be transferred within seconds. Computing capabilities of GPUs were also growing at a fast enough rate alongside software development that developers were finally no longer limited by technological constraints when building a product, but only by the know how of their own teams and their own capabilities to build a filled in world. Space tourism was beginning to grow noticeably as an industry for the multimillionaires and the billionaires of the world. The internet of things was finally maturing as every single product being transported could be easily tracked live 24/7 with embedded tracking devices. Self driving cars at level 3 had become available at this point in time for the rich consumer. The first commercial iterations of humanoid robots were now beginning to become common among the elite.

2040s:

The 2040s saw a new industrial boom as the whole world was becoming physically connected and borders between the developed world continued to weaken until most people could travel from one developed nation to another without a visa without issue. The concept of a special VISA to travel between nation states was becoming obsolete between developed nation states. On the back of this social evolution infrastructure networks were developed that even more deeply connected North America and Europe. AI had surpassed the reasoning capabilities of the smartest humans and was used alongside the smartest humans to keep humans in the loop as research, discoveries, and inventions rapidly grew to the point the human element was what was keeping growth at a steady pace. Brain-machine interfaces were taking off in this decade as network connections had become advanced enough and encrypted enough that it was safe for the average consumer to have information digitally transferred to their brain. Speeding up learning processes. It was in this decade that there was a population of humans on the moon similar to the number of humans on Antarctica in the initial stages. Ever faster internet was no longer a consumer level concern as faster internet speeds were only needed by large megacorporations to keep all their operations running in order. Level 4 self driving cars were now available to the consumer. VR and AR were also maturing by this time as VR and AR systems could now fit within sunglasses which was convenient enough for the average consumer to embrace the technology. The second generation of humanoid robots capable of common human movement and flexibility were now available to middle income individuals.

2050s:

The planned cities concept fully matured with people across the middle income and high income world living in well developed and well planned out cities. The housing crisis had come to an end and global prices of products had become stagnant, with corporations earning further income by producing new products to add to products available for purchase to the consumer. The primary cause of inflation was now new products in the market for the consumer to try out. The first man on Mars had now step foot on the red world. Travel between developed nation states was practically borderless even if on paper they still had borders between them. There were underground tunnels being built that connected North America to Europe. China and India had become the primary suppliers of mass produced technology to the rest of the world. Third generation robots can perform all tasks better than a human can perform them. Humans are delegated to consumer jobs such as testing new product or rubber stamping their name to something an AI discovered. Research and development, and the medical industry is the primary bastion left where humans have an influence. Full self driving cars are now available to the masses. How fast microchips develop is irrelevant to the average consumer now, as more powerful chips only matter to AI growth and megacorporations now.

2060s:

Robots replace doctors. Robot surgeons are better and there is no doubt about it. Human machine interfaces are common place and actively used to enhance the intelligence and capabilities of humans by applying low level charges to the correct parts of the brain. Diseases like libertarianphilia and addictions are similarly cured by applying energy to the correct parts of the brain. Right alongside bio tech also develops to the point where humans can get spine and 3d printed organ transplants. The primary cause of death in the world is now old age related diseases and humans killing one another. Robots have been permitted to perform the functions of mall security and security guards for private establishments, also to work as cops.

2070s:

The human lifespan extension industry has matured and human lifespans are on average 100 years now with the oldest people capable of living to 130 years of age. Cancer is a curable disease in all its forms and human brain interfaces have evolved to the point that humans in a city are automatically connected to the central city intelligence without any interface being directly applied. Medical advances have been made to the point that you can survive any accident and recover from any accident as long as they can get to you in time. There are tiny science colonies on Mars and the Moon where robots are doing the majority of work. Space mining has also begun to mature by this decade. There is not a road on the planet that does not connect to the world. The military is now 50% robots.

2080s:

Universal basic income is commonplace. On the back of this development only the humans interested in working are working now. There are still geniuses among the human race who offer utility to further propagate the species and technology, but for the most part global civilization would continue to grow even if humanity tapped out completely. Latin America has been fully developed and integrated with the developed world by this time period. Weapons are illegal across the world and therapy is offered to people showing increased signs of aggression in public. China's social credit system is picked up by the developed world not to take away rights but to offer additional amenities and powers to individuals who have a higher score. Half the planet has borderless movement among each other. The other half is dying demographically. There are about a dozen space stations in space now, primarily for industrial purposes such as space mining. All weapons of war are smart weapons that can track the person being shot at.

2090s:

Unknowable

2100s:

Unknowables

Conclusion:

Technology is growing exponentially and the developments of the 20th century are going to be chump change in comparison to the technological advancements of the 21st century. As each step further provides diminishing returns, humanity has made up for it by increasing the number of steps it can take at a time. We can expect food, transportation, and energy prices to plummet over time as the whole world becomes globalized and it only makes sense to tax large scale entities such as companies and megacorporations as they are the only entities in need of new infrastructure and equipment to keep developing things further. Technology is evolving fast enough that it's impossible to be able to track what level of technology humanity has at the end of the century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emerging_technologies

Expect all of these technologies to be complete by the end of the century.

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