Genetically designed species of plants and animals enter the mainstream by 2008. Biotechnology will improve crop production to feed a more-populated world. Computers take over health care tasks. By 2009, more-powerful hardware and software systems will keep medical records, fulfill prescriptions, and monitor patients. Alternative energy challenges carbon-based fuels.
Smart robots take on sophisticated jobs.
Decision-making robots that do complex factory work and assist the handicapped will arrive by 2010. The GW Forecast of emerging technologies began in 1990.