{"id":12385,"title":"Infographic: A Timeline of Future Technology","publisher":"Share Talk","author":"sharetalk","published":"2017-07-18T07:08:40+00:00","modified":"2017-11-05T10:16:55+00:00","canonical_url":"https://www.share-talk.com/infographic-a-timeline-of-future-technology/","markdown_url":"https://www.share-talk.com/infographic-a-timeline-of-future-technology.md","json_url":"https://www.share-talk.com/infographic-a-timeline-of-future-technology.json","category":"Learning and Investing","categories":["Learning and Investing"],"featured_image":"https://i0.wp.com/www.share-talk.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Stencil-Google-Chrome-2023-04-19-at-2.47.43-PM.jpeg?fit=1231%2C615&quality=89&ssl=1","format":"news","language":"en-GB","content":" \n\nMaking predictions about future technology is both fun and [notoriously difficult](http://www.visualcapitalist.com/a-timeline-of-failed-tech-predictions/).\n\nHowever, such predictions also serve a very practical purpose for investors and business leaders, since failing to adapt to changing industry paradigms can completely decimate a business venture, turning it into the next Blockbuster, Kodak, or Sears.\n\nToday’s infographic from [Futurism](https://futurism.com/images/things-to-come-a-timeline-of-future-technology-infographic/) rounds up some of the most interesting predictions about the future, from trusted sources such as Scientific American and The National Academy of Sciences.\n\n[!\\[\\](http://2oqz471sa19h3vbwa53m33yj.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/infographic-timeline-of-future-technology.jpg)](http://www.visualcapitalist.com/timeline-future-technology/)\n\nCourtesy of: [Visual Capitalist](http://www.visualcapitalist.com)\n\n## **MACHINES, BIG AND SMALL**\n\nThe confluence of robotics, artificial intelligence, and [increasing levels of automation](http://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-jobs-lost-automation/) is a prevailing trend throughout the projected timeline of future technology.\n\nIn less than 10 years, we will be able to control machines based on eye movements, while ingesting nano-sized robots to repair injuries from within our bodies. Later on, it’s also expected that the next wave of AI will be a reality: by 2036, predictive AI will be able to predict the near-future with impressive precision. Elections, weather, geopolitical events, and other dynamic systems will be analyzed in real-time using thousands or millions of data streams.\n\nEven further down the line, human brains and machines will be continue to become closer to interfacing directly, creating all kinds of possibilities.\n\n## THE ENERGY REVOLUTION CONTINUES\n\nIf you think the current progress in clean energy is exciting – wait until you see the technologies in the queue.\n\nThe [future of battery technology](http://www.visualcapitalist.com/future-battery-technology/) will include carbon-breathing batteries that turn CO2 into generate electricity, as well as diamond-based “nuclear batteries” that run off of nuclear waste.\n\nMeanwhile, solar power will be even cheaper as cells operate at near 100% efficiency, and commercial [fusion power](http://www.visualcapitalist.com/fusion-power/) will be available by 2044. Climate change will also be tackled by interesting techniques, such as geoengineering with calcite aerosols, and carbon sequestration.\n\n## MORE ON FUTURE TECHNOLOGY\n\nWant to see more bold predictions about the future of technology?\n\nCheck out the future of [alternative energy](http://www.visualcapitalist.com/alternative-energy-sources-future/), the [military](http://www.visualcapitalist.com/future-of-military-technology/), or the futuristic tech that could be [inside your home](http://www.visualcapitalist.com/interactive-meet-futuristic-tech-inside-next-home/).\n\nLastly, check out some very [speculative predictions](http://www.visualcapitalist.com/predictions-earth-in-100-years-future/) about what the world could look like, 100 years from now.\n\n![](http://2.gravatar.com/avatar/bb18798e371a5d8fd8e52038cd5d1008?s=100&r=pg&d=mm)\n\n[Jeff Desjardins](http://www.visualcapitalist.com/author/visualcapitali/) is a founder and editor of Visual Capitalist, a media website that creates and curates visual content on investing and business. [WEBSITE](http://visualcapitali.wpengine.com/)"}