There is a hi chance that one or both will happen in 50 years, and this is gonna be real revolution, not this gpt/blockhain scam:
1. Controlled thermonuclear energy (bye oil, hello new crysis in eastern oil backed countries)
2. New type of batteries (hello flying drone taxis, bye old cars, planes and ways of transportation, bye ineffective “alternative” energy)
Technology will take a backseat in societies, people will be more skeptical of technology instead of being optimistic about their impact.
Just like we've become skeptical of new medical procedures, drugs or products, we'll become skeptical about the supposedly beneficial impacts of technology on society and nature.
We'll reason about the second and third-order impacts of our behavior and try to change them accordingly, helping each other along the way.
This is pure fantasy but wouldn't it be nice.
1. Remote work technology, like multiple screens, cameras, mics, speakers, the simulate being at the office. (Not VR goggles).
2. More efficient, cheaper home solar panels, battery wall, EVs, heat pumps, to achieve net zero at home.
3. AR glasses that are not nerdy, and actually useful in the real world.
4. AI technology that fact checks every social media post.
Various carbon-silicon fusion technologies, eg growing GPU's in your garden
A merging of our device OSs. Right now our watches, phones, computers, tablets and TVs are different systems (even within the Apple ecosystem but imagine having a Fitbit, Android phone, Macbook and Samsung TV..)
> next 50 years?
it's strange to see this question in the gpt era.
well, how about a jinn that is able to construct a seed of a self-replicated spaceships with a warp drive while you're drinking your coffee? ;-)
Algorithms to review and edit bloated designs, e.g. the ridiculous bloat of features available to the driver of a new automobile.
Edible boxes.
Tinnitus tech to cure it
Depilatory masks
Biotech-driven technologies in so many ways, exponentially and combinatorially explosive and mind-bending. Design and grow your living home. Have your gut biome become smarter than you. Effective age reversal. Agricultural foodbelts rewilded into prairies.