Four Major Future Technology in 20 Years

1. Hologram Television
The engineers of the Object-Based Media Group at the MIT Media Lab, led by V. Michael
Bove Jr. and his graduate student Dan Smalley, are working on technology that might enable
the Hologram experience in your living room.
The group is aiming to make true holographic videos not only a reality, but an affordable
reality.
Sure, there have been other types of glasses-free 3D screens and devices, various 3D TVs,
but those have suffered from poor viewing angles, causing the image to be distorted when
you move off the right or left. They also aren't considered true holograms.
What is a hologram?
Electronics like 3DTV TVs take two separate images and display them simultaneously
through specialized materials that send one image to your left eye and the other to your
right. To your brain, this image mixture appears as if it has depth. The problem is that your
head has to be in the right place. Viewing the display from a slight angle causes the depth to
disappear, leaving behind two out of focus images layered on top of each other. Holograms,
on the other hand, don't rely on this kind of optical illusion to project depth. It instead relies
only on the physics of light.
Holographic televisions could be in living rooms in the next 10 years at the price of todays
two-dimensional sets.
Holographic 3D might be possible on mobile devices in the near future, though it is further
out for large TV displays.

2. Wireless power
Wireless power or wireless electricity is the transmission of electrical energy from a power
source to an electrical load without man-made conductors.
Cell phones, game controllers, laptop computers, even electric vehicles capable of re-
charging themselves without ever being plugged in. Flat screen TVs and digital picture
frames that hang on the wallwithout requiring a wire and plug for power. Industrial
systems and medical devices made more reliable by eliminating trouble prone wiring and
replaceable batteries.
WiTricity Corp. is working to make this future a reality, developing wireless electricity
technology that will operate safely and efficiently over distances ranging from centimeters
to several metersand will deliver power ranging from milliwatts to kilowatts.
It works like this:
1. WiTricity builds a "Source Resonator," a coil of electrical wire that generates a magnetic
field when power is attached.
2. When you bring a device into that magnetic field, it induces a current in the device, and
by that you're able to transfer power
Don't worry about getting zapped: The magnetic fields used to transfer energy are
"perfectly safe" -- in fact, they are the same kind of fields used in Wi-Fi routers.
If all goes to WiTricity's plans, smartphones will charge in your pocket as you wander
around, televisions will work with no wires attached, and electric cars will refuel while
sitting on the driveway.

3. 3D printing of Organs
From a technological perspective, the rise and development of 3D printing and its
capabilities will play an undeniable part in our future lives. Approximately 18 people die
every day waiting for an organ transplant. But that may change someday sooner than you
think -- thanks to 3D printing.
Like other forms of 3D printing, bio-printing lays down layer after layer of material -- in this
case, live cells -- to form a solid physical entity -- in this case, human tissue. The major
stumbling block in creating tissue continues to be manufacturing the vascular system needed
to provide it with life-sustaining oxygen and nutrients.
Bioprinting, or the process of creating human tissues through 3D printers, is a highly
contested area of technological innovation. Theoretically it could save the economy billions
on a global scale, whilst boosting weak or war-torn countries' access to more affordable
health care and provision, whether producing prosthetic limbs or highly customised fully-
working human organs.

4. Magnetic Roads helping self-driving cars
Volvo car manufacturer has recently finished a research project which proposes magnet
laden roads as an assistant for self-driving cars.

We live in a world where satellites and microprocessors can tell us how to get anywhere we
want to go, but Volvo believes the future of transportation lies with something much
simpler: magnets.
Volvo argues that magnets, unlike electronic transmission, are unfazed by poor weather
conditions or obstacles in the road, so they can reliably guide vehicles along the road.

There have already been wide scale reports of the success of Googles self- driving cars
that utilise GPS technology, LiDAR and 360-degree view cameras to detect obstacles and
assist road navigation, with other companies including BMW and Ford also looking into
similar methods.

Volvo claims that the magnetic technology is a lot cheaper than adding GPS and camera
systems to cars and also lacks the unreliability of GPS in poor weather conditions or tunnels
for example. Volvo states that the technology would not replace the existing hardware of
autonomous vehicles but add another level of safety and guidance.

The big task however, would be getting government backing or other support to implement
the magnetic system there is a lot of road to cover! As an introduction to the technology,
main highways can be incorporated first before continuing the spread of magnetic
implementation with focus on areas that lack GPS coverage such as tunnels. Also, instead of
burying the magnets, they can be used to replace existing road markings, allowing cost and
work required to be reduced.

Volvo further claims that the system could also prevent run-off road accidents, facilitate
accuracy of winter road maintenance and allow a more efficient utilisation of road space
since accurate positioning could allow lanes to be narrower.



Whats not going to happen within 20 years:

Scientists still won't know how to teleport objects.
Artificial meat manufactured in a lab
Robots like You saw in the movie I, Robot
Biochips and implants are not going to be popular for the majority
Flying cars and drones