The journal Nature tries its hand at gleaning the technologies of the year 2018. Here’s their list of what’s making your life easier/more interesting 10 years from now…

1. Electronic Paper … the author predicts that ebook readers will push paper aside and help bring about the elusive paperless office, with a side benefit of eliminating arboricide
2. Haptics … this particular seer seems to like touch screens that bite back
3. Video Visors … you wearing goofy goggles, enuf said

4. Products with Memories … the contributor forsees toasters with more memory than you have
5. Autonomous Robots … next-gen Roomba, now with an attitude
6. Genetic Information … find out what’ll make you sick in 25 years
7. Open Content Management … a Google/Wikipedia/Facebook/etc mashup
8. 3D Environments … Second Life + 1 = Third Life?
9. The Semantic Web … a social network for data - Tim Berners-Lee’s vision realized
X. Better Browsers … duh

…hmm, sounds a lot like the technologies of 2008.

Big data: The next Google: What will happen in the next 10 years? - Nature, 3 September 2008

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