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December 17 2019

11 bold forecasts for the near future technological decade

Gianluca Ricciodi Gianluca Riccio
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11 bold forecasts for the near future technological decade

The last 10 years have seen half of the forecasts come true: this is what has happened, and here are those for the near future.

It's a rule: if you want to look ahead, don't forget to look back. The past is a prologue, and one must know how to read it.

Remember the predictions about the near future we made 10 years ago? By the end of this decade we had high expectations for several things.

We had expected a rapidly growing Internet (but not the risks of stew with "splinternet"). A vast and unprecedented miniaturization, thanks to nanotechnology. The advent of the cloud (true) that would mark the end of physical computers (fake). Display on the retina (almost true). Conversations with virtual assistants (but we hadn't expected that they recorded). An artificial brain (AI exploded thanks to GAN, but we are still far away).

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In short: the past forecasts for the near future were half true.

I don't think anyone could have predicted everything that has happened in the past 10 years. We finally said goodbye to floppies and (perhaps) 3D TVs, with all due respect to the glasses that lie in some furniture.

Cloud storage and computing are probably one of the most important technologies of the decade. Mobile broadband is taken for granted and we now watch HD videos on smaller screens wherever we are.

We lost Steve Jobs and saw Mark Zuckerberg become one of the richest and most powerful technology CEOs in the world.

Elon Musk has made his mark in electric and self-driving cars, as well as in space and solar technology. His name has passed from the mouth of a few experts to that of all.

Artificial intelligence is now an accepted part of everyday life, even though it is one of the least reliable technologies on the planet.

Augmented reality and virtual reality have changed the way we see the world and ourselves, but it is still lagging behind.

Next the next 10 years

Obviously, everything that has happened in the last 3.652 days has laid the foundation for what will come in 2020 and beyond. Here's what you can already see in these 11 predictions about the near future.

1. 5G and beyond

Forecasts for the near future

Any thread should disappear in the next decade. Whether it's the shift to ubiquitous 5G (and 6G) ​​or wireless electricity, power and network cables, at least for consumer technology, they will soon be a thing of the past.

In the case of 5G, competing technologies will merge into a dominant technology by the middle of the decade (if not earlier), and a single standard should speed up implementation and adoption.

2. At the rate of Charge… battery

Forecasts for the near future

Seriously, forecasts predict that scientists will reverse any drop in performance in lithium-ion battery technology over the next decade. We will see new ultra-fast charging technologies, more efficient chemical components (graphite instead of silicon) and nanobatteries that never die.

Mobile giants like Apple, Samsung and Huawei will continue to tweak and improve the AI ​​to improve battery management on the device.

Not even the next decade should bring us farewell to lithium-ion batteries, however. Unless the aluminum-air battery burns the stages.

3. Ubiquitous mobile screens

the 2020 it will be filled with a wider range of mobile display choices. We will see more flexible screens in many forms, as well as dual and triple screens (yes, just like with dual, triple and quad camera lenses).

Transparent screens, which thanks to OLED are already technically feasible, could finally begin to appear on some mobile devices by 2025.

4. Our smart homes will evolve

Forecasts for the near future

Despite privacy concerns, the smart home revolution shows no signs of slowing down. The biggest changes in the next decade will relate to protocols and ubiquity. There will be a "single language", a standard that will allow all smart home technologies, even competing ones, to integrate and communicate without problems.

By the end of the decade, intelligently introducing anything (clothing, coffee maker, nano paint on a wall) may take little more than sticking a wireless-enabled smart sticker.

5. To all cars, I repeat: to all cars ...

Forecasts for the near future

Self-driving car technology and the infrastructure to support them will meet midway in the latter part of the next decade, with virtually every state supporting self-driving car licensing and adding autonomous vehicle lanes to empower those who still want to drive by hand not to mix too much with driverless cars, buses and autonomous trucks.

Also, by the end of the decade, at least 50% of the cars will be electric.

6. A decade still social

Forecasts for the near future

Our intense relationship with social media will make platforms like Facebook and Twitter survive in the next decade (of course they could, but it's unlikely).

Instead, just as 2019 saw the rise of TikTok, we will see many more new platforms coming and going. If I have to identify a characteristic, I would say that they will be smaller communities and made up of real relationships than false friends and soulless "likes".

7. My robot friend

If Boston Dynamics' parkour-capable Atlas robot, Spot robot dog, and even Sony's new AIBO are any indication. The next home caregivers may have more anthropomorphic forms and see the advent by the end of this next decade.

They will be used primarily in the care of the elderly, and they will not be cheap: a turning point for personal robotics could be around 2035. However, the next decade will kick off this change.

8. The quantum decade

Quantum computing has the potential to solve human and world problems with impressive speed and power. Already IBM, Intel and Google claimed to have achieved "quantum supremacy," but none of them have yet managed to move quantum computers out of the labs.

In the next decade, things will also change for the quantum computer.

9. Hyperfast transport

While we will likely see the first Hyperloop completed by the end of the decade, it probably won't be for the "simple" commuter. The 30s will be the decisive decade for Hyperloop and other super transport technologies.

This of course causes NASA's plans to take us to Mars by some years (at least in my forecast). Even for the Moon (where a mission is scheduled for 2024) I start to cultivate doubts.

10. Cryptocurrency still on the shields

I am sure that cryptocurrency will be an important economic and financial part in the 2020s, but I don't think it will replace any standard monetary system. My predictions for the near future say that "crypto" will become a stable platform for a wider variety of accounting systems and secure transactions.

11. Wearable devices will grow in importance and usefulness.

The main advantage here will be the potential ability of a device to help diagnose potential health problems. That tension between the palliative potential of modern technology and our need to live authentic lives with no digital limits will remain.

Anyone who makes you predictions about the near future saying they know exactly what will happen in technology (or in any other sector) in the next 10 years lies, and knows it, or worse: it is crazy.

I don't have a crystal ball, just my experience, my curiosity and the desire to understand how the wind of innovation blows.

Let's meet here just before 2030 and see if I have seen right.

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Gianluca Riccio, copywriter and journalist - Born in 1975, he is the creative director of an advertising agency, he is affiliated with the Italian Institute for the Future, World Future Society and H +, Network of Italian Transhumanists.

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