(2012-06-13) Michell Zappa Envisioning Emerging Technologies

Michell Zappa made a cool TimeLine/poster Envisioning Emerging Technologies (Emerging Technology) stretching out to 2040. (See related: Grand Challenges For Engineering.)

Technologies mentioned

• Artificial Intelligence (AI): High Frequency Trading, Software Agent-s, Natural Language interpretation, Machine Translation, Procedural Story Telling, VR-only lifeforms, Machine-augmented cognition (Augmenting Human Intellect)
• Internet: Cloud Computing, CyberWar-fare, 4G, Mesh Network-ing, Virtual currencies (Virtual Money), 5G, Reputation Economy, Interplanetary internet, Remote Presence, Exo Cortex
• Interfaces (UI): MultiTouch, Gesture recognition, Speech Recognition, Augmented Reality, 4K, Haptic-s, Holography, Tele Presence, Immersive Virtual Reality
• Sensor-s: Depth imaging, Near Field Communication, Pervasive video capture (CCTV), Bio Metric sensors, Smart Power Meter-s, Biomarkers, Machine Vision, Computational Photography, Optogenetics, Neuroinformatics
• UbiComp: Tablet-s, Volumetric (3D) screens, Flexible screens, Boards, Picoprojectors, Eyewear-embedded screens (Google Glass), Context-aware computing, Fabric-embedded screens, Reprogrammable chips, Skin-embedded screens, Retinal screens
• Robotics (Robot): Appliance robots, Smart toys, Robotic surgery, Self-driving vehicles (SelfDrivingCars), Powered exoskeleton, Commercial Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), Domestic robots, Swarm robotics, Embodied avatars, Utility fog
• BioTech: Personal gene sequencing, Organ printing, Synthetic blood, Smart Drug-s, Personalized medicine, In-vitro meat, Synthetic biology, Stem Cell treatments, Gene Therapy, Hybrid assisted limbs, Artificial retinas, Nanomedicine, Anti-aging drugs
• Materials: Additive manufacturing (Desktop Fab), Self-healing materials, Graph Ene, Personal fabricators, Meta-materials, Optical invisibility cloaks, Carbon nanotubes, Biomaterials, Molecular Assembler, Nanowires, Programmable matter
• Energy: Inductive chargers, Tidal turbines, Fuel Cell-s, Bio-enhanced fuels (BioFuel), Multi-segmented Smart Grid-s, Photovoltaic glass, Piezo-electricity, Biomechanical harvesting, Nano-generators, Artificial photosynthesis, Enernet, Thorium reactor, Traveling wave reactor, Space-based solar power
• Space: Commercial spaceflight, Sub-orbital spaceflight, Space Tourism, Lunar outpost, Mars mission, Space elevator, Solar Sail (Space Migration?)
• GeoEngineering: Weather engineering, Vertical Farm-ing, Sea-Steading, De Salination (De Salinization), Carbon Sequestration, Climate Engineering, Arcologies

Wikipedia has a long list of Emerging Technologies.