How technologically advanced will we be at the end of the 21st century?

  • Invasive spectroscopic medical devices in every creature

  • Drones that can catch you from a cliff dive and fly you around

  • Large Scale Invisibility

  • Mining vehicles larger than airports

  • In-home nanofactories

  • Waterproof clothing, dishes, cars, pipes, walls, counters, floors, electronics, furniture, towels

  • Full-blown databases of the world's known genome and proteome

  • Global genocide of any species deemed a pest

  • Domestication of all surviving species

  • Homes that are fireproof, earthquake proof, termite proof, tornado proof, flood proof, mold proof

  • 10:1 ratio of homes to humans

  • Homes that are mechanically interactive - counters, shelves, furniture, appliances, showers and toilets can pop out of floors and walls

  • Homes that are digitally interactive - floors, walls, surfaces can change appearance. Windows can be digitally overlayed and resized

  • No more plug ins

  • transatlantic seafloor maglevs

  • Advanced computational fluid dynamics for oil and natural gas discovery

  • Advanced computational molecular dynamics for drug, enzyme, and biotech development

  • Homes that can heal themselves

  • A fully automated global delivery system

  • Self repairing powerplants, aquifers, factories and warehouses

  • A drop in sea level due to massive desalination projects

  • Construction of artificial reinforced super aquifers and underground concentrated mineral reserves

  • Global restructuring of floral ecology, elimination of plants deemed invasive or unproductive

  • Satellites with 7G 1 exabyte/second transmission speed, radiometric and thermal data feeds, visual resolutions of 100 terapixels and docking stations for mini-sats.

  • Vehicles that can transform based on any terrain - underwater, off-road, airborne, low earth orbit

  • no disease

  • holographic cities

  • digital archives, digital museums of old cities, recycling old cities into new cities or mineral reserves

  • instant translation of any language in video, audio or physical signing

  • lots of weed

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