This document provides an overview of emerging technologies from 2011 to 2025 and beyond in areas such as robotics, biotech, money, internet connectivity, materials, energy, and space. Some key technologies highlighted include artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, biometric security, brain-computer interfaces, cyberwarfare, drones, exoskeletons, machine translation, medical diagnostics, personalized medicine, programmable matter, renewable energy, synthetic biology, and vertical farming. The document maps out the progression of these technologies over different time periods.

1. Envisioning the near
future of technology WARFARE
Optogenetics
Last updated: 2011-02-25
meeting people is easy Wetware
(biofeedback)
Metamaterial
cloaking Artificial limbs
UAVs
ARTIFICIAL
Exoskeletons Synthetic meat INTELLIGENCE
Stem-cell
ROBOTICS treatments
Utility
fog
Vertical agriculture
Swarm
Cash-less robotics Self-
society driving Cyber-
Interplanetary Domestic vehicles warfare
internet robots
BIOTECH
Medical
Telemedicine diagnostics
MONEY
HAPs
Smart Natural language
toys Machine interpretation
Biomarkers translation
Mobile
payments Programmable matter
Virtual Software
currencies agents Metamaterials
Appliance Personalized
Crowd medicine
funding bots
Smart 3D
infrastructure printing
Recommendation Nanowires
Linked engines
data
INTERNET NFC ANNs
Memristor
MATERIALS
(CONNECTIVITY)
PGS Carbon
Social nanotubes
5G graph Machine-based Space
high-frequency trading elevator
2025 + 2015 – 2025 2011 – 2015 Cloud
computing
now Print on
demand
2011 – 2015 2015 – 2025 2025 +
Sensors (2011) Private
PAN Tabs & spaceflight
Pads Fuel cells Space
Pervasive 4G Multi tourism
video capture Pico-
cells
3D touch SPACE
Conductive
Boards energy
Electronic
paper Gesture
recognition
Pico-
projectors
Lunar
outpost
Spimes Smart
AR meters
UBICOMP
(HARDWARE)
Local power Solar
Wearables Speech production thermal
NUI recognition
(SOFTWARE) (GREEN)
ENERGY
Haptics Nano- Artificial
Fabric- generators photosynthesis
embedded Projected audio
screens
Holography Piezo-
electricity
Telepresence Traveling
wave reactor
Retinal Machine Smart Biomechanical Predominant use
displays vision grids harvesting of renewables
Skin-
embedded
screens
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