Technology Timeline

The timeline below shows when various technological advances were achieved. Unless otherwise stated, this does not necessarily imply that they became *widespread* at the same time. Most tech advances take 15-30 years to go from laboratory result to consumer product. Interpret these dates to suit your campaign.

#### 2020 - 2029

* Ubiquitous advertising, even in walls of private apartments, offsetting rent
* AI PDAs (specialized/expert AI)
* Location-based reminders via PDA
* AI advertising, personally interactive ads, blink or speak to answer or ignore
* All TV is streamed downloads, but the word "TV" or “tele” is still used
* Ditto radio, which is called "audio"
* AI Storytelling and Storygames
* Wearable Media
* Augmented Reality in shopping districts and recreational locations
* Screenless Displays
* Contact Lens Displays
* Smart Drugs
* Smart Toys
* Smart Appliances
* Smart toilets (medical scanners), beds, refrigerators & bathroom scanners
* Synthetic Wombs
* Online death shrines with 3d holo or AI replicas of the deceased
* Facial recognition scanners control access to stores and public venues
* Superbacteria, regular public disease and bacteria alerts; quarantine policies

#### 2030 - 2039

* Reputation Economies rival fiat currency economies
* All common devices interact: the “IoT”
* Citywide networks of Sensors, Processors and Transceivers
* Objects monitoring your every move
* 3DTV, holorooms & VR: private or multi-person, interactive holo-movies, telepresence (holocommunication)
* Augmented Reality is commonplace
* Realtime Language Translation
* Virtual Reality & Unreality
* VR Lifeforms
* Haptic Suits
* Embodied Avatars
* Mass Combination Transit systems (a train of cars which connect/disconnect)
* Maglev trains ~1000MPH
* Personal Fabricators. 3D printing. Designing is harder than building.
* Oil Wars
* HR Automation – Proactive Employment
* Modular Smart Grids
* Photovoltaic Glass
* Self-Healing Materials
* Molecular Assemblers
* Responsive Antibiotics
* Powered Exoskeletons
* Solar-powered microsheets and embedded micro cells in buildings, surfaces, fabrics, etc
* Flexible electronics, Stretchable electronics
* DNA used for datastorage (700 TB/g)
* BotClouds
* Robot Domestics (personal AI)
* Robot Nurses (elderly & in-house care)
* Robot Soldiers (battlefield AI)
* Robot Surgeons (physiological AI)
* Contact Lens Displays
* Biometric Sensors
* Implanted GPS systems
* Organ Printing
* Stem-cell Treatments
* Hybrid-assisted Limbs
* Cloned ("cultured") Meat
* Solar Energy Pods
* Soylent Foods
* Towercologies
* Street and artistic experimentation with pseudo-ESP systems and brain-nets
* Composite metal foams (CMFs) permit new types of vehicular & body armor.

#### 2040 - 2059

* Global population begins to decline
* All cars on major roads are under satellite control, most are driverless
* Retinal Displays
* General Purpose Service Robots
* Remote Presence used in industry, communications & entertainment
* Ocean barriers against sea level rise
* Plastic outweighs fish in the oceans
* Farming Islands
* Water Wars
* Desalinization Systems
* Antibiotic Resistance
* Anti-aging Drugs
* Medical nanotech commonly used
* Regrown replacement body parts (bone, skin, blood, muscle, organs)
* Smart Dust: nanos sprinkled on body (hands) to allow systems control
* Neural implants for mental treatments
* Neural implants for augmentation of cognitive abilities
* Brain-implanted cyber systems
* Artificial Photosynthesis
* Space Lifts
* Asteroid Mining
* Space Tourism
* Space-based Solar Power
* Wireless Electricity
* Utility Fog (global cloud)
* Interplanetary Internet
* Nanosuits: controlled by soldier = intelligent armored exoskeleton

#### 2060 - 2079

* Quantum Computers
* Thought-controlled devices
* Self-directed learning computers
* Programmable Matter
* Transatlantic Tubeway
* Exocortex
* Arcologies
* Aqualogies
* Space Elevator
* Solar Sails
* Orbital Colonies

#### 2080 - 2099

* Dream Recording
* Generalized AI
* Climate Engineering
* Designer DNA (outlawed?)
* Orbital Colony gains independence

#### 2100+

* Limited Antigravity
* Colony on Mars
* Antimatter
* Underground Cities
* Colony on Titan
* Millions of people live off-Earth