Scenario: Uplink's Predictions

My personal Predictions - to be revised and added to over time. 08/04/06
NOTE: Most of my predictions are based on mass useage rather then invention date.
 2007
Windows Vista	Flexible OLED Display	Blu-Ray
 2008
Fuel Cell Battery	Nanotube Display	Holographic Storage
 2009
All Digital TV	Windows Fiji
 
 2010
Language User Interface	Retinal Display 	Internet-Based T.V 	I.S.S Complete
Shuttle Retired 	Nanorod Solar Cell	Transparent Electronics	
 2012
Female U.S. President	VoIP >50% 	Freedom Tower Complete	Joint Strike Fighter
Windows Vienna 	C.E.V Launch 	Golden Rice 	Enriched Food
Ultra-Capacitors 	Light Sensitive Protein Storage	Quantum Encryption 	Online Operating Systems
 2014
Terrestrial Planet Finder	James Webb Telescope
 2015
Quantum Computer 	Nanotube Circuits 	Optical Computer 	Free Wireless Internet
Fuel Cell Cars 	Self-Driving Cars 	Stem Cells 	Solid-State Lighting
Space Hotel 	ITER - Fusion Prototype 	Genome Sequencing 	E-Democracy
StarShade Planet Imager	Spintronics 	Project Aurora 	Virtual Reality
Quantum Wires 	[[Agricultural Robots 	Mission Using Solar Sail	Palestinian State
Tactical Lasers 	Robotic Orbital Assembly	 	
 2017
JFK Documents Released	Nanoscale Fabricator
 2019
Earth-Like Planet Found <10ly	15%+ of Military Vehicles Automated
 2020
Future Force Warrior 	Hypersonic Space Planes 	Molecular Manufactoring	100 Million MIPS CPU
Designer Babies 	Genetic Engineering 	Grown Organs 	Human Cloning
Manned Return to Moon	Desalination 	Phased-Array Holodeck 	Expert Systems
Robotic Doctors 	Household Robotics use > 50%	Theory Of Everything 	Oil Peak
Aquaculture 	 	 	
 2022
Space Elevator	Personal Nanofactory
 2025
Martian Space Elevator	Renewable Economy	Cybernetics > 25%	Moon Base
Cancer Cure 	Helium-3 Mining 	Utility Fog 	Energy Weapons
Mars Infrastucture 	Space Solar Power	 	
 2027
Humans On Mars	O'Neill Cylinders
 2029
Assembler	Neural Interface	Human Level A.I	Mars Colony
 2030
Respirocytes 	Artifical Immune System	Human Body 2.0 	4 Day Working Week
6 Hour Working Day	Tax Abolished 	Extinct Animals Cloned	A.I Rights
Underground Cities	 	 	
 2035
All-Purpose Nanobots	Artificial Reality	Antimatter Production	Beamed-Core Propulsion
 2040
Uploading 	Human Body 3.0 	Fusion Power	World Population Stabilizes
90%+ Of World Democratic	Global Warming Stopped	 	
 2045
Strong A.I	Dyson's Sphere Begins	A.I Launch to Alpha Centauri	
 2055
A.I Arrives at Alpha Centauri	A.I Mission to Exo-Earth
 2060
Von Neumann Probes		
 22nd Century
World Government	FTL Travel**	FTL Communication**	Teleportation**
[**]: if Physics Allows it
Wild Cards: Could Happen Anytime
* Alien Contact
* Asteroid Impact - Unlikely after 2025
* World War III - Unlikely After 2050
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