With the rate of advent of technology, nothing seems to be unachievable. Some of our wildest imaginations might come to life by the year 2020.
Every second in the world of tech something new is being innovated and invented. The latest smart-phone that you bought yesterday and are so proud about can become out dated by the end of next week. In this era when science seems to have reached the point of saturation but it is actually growing at the rate of a big-bang, futurologists are not hesitating to predict that technologies like Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Digital Media will take there places in a common man’s living room.
Let’s take a look at some of the astonishing predictions which can take real shapes by the year 2020.
1.Holographic Avatars
Would it not be interesting to see the receptionist at a hotel book your rooms and then vanish into thin air? All of us have seen the Jedi Knights communicating with their holographic projection communicators. The day isn’t far when we might be using one of those to make presentations in multiple auditoriums at once. It doesn’t stop there; the same technology can even be modified to create avatars with human like physical capability and intelligence to replace staffs in a hotel or nurses in a hospital.
2.Oops! All the money is digitalized
Money is a tough commodity to handle. We all want money but we don’t want to manage it. Technological ascent in the past decade has made the management of money very easy through credit-cards and internet banking. By the year 2020 futurists are expecting that there would not be any hard bills in use and all the monetary transactions would happen through cell-phones and computers. The smallest to the largest amount of transaction would not require the involvement of any painstaking procedure in the bank; instead it would take is a few clicks on your cell-phone.
3.From smart-phones to smart-jewelry.
Fashion and Technology are the most effective trends of this age. Future has a lot more in store with these two trends’ infusion to create some amazing products. In the next decade, a bracelet or an earring would not just be a mere accessory. Scientists have already started developing jewelry embedded with technologies like Bluetooth, Wifi etc. Imagine a watch which is also a Smartphone and a necklace that can store Giga-bytes of data. That is exactly where science and technology is taking us we are more than happy to follow it.
4.Small but Intelligent
Technologies like VLSI, ULSI and Nano-technology have already made our whole world shrink into the cupboard space. 30 years ago, a computer that took a huge room to fit into can be placed on the tip of our finger today. The amount of intelligence that these devices have and the level of processing hey can do without human indulgence is immense. Under such circumstances where intelligence can be embedded into smallest possible device, we might see a future where from a calculator to a space shuttle launcher, all will be able to sense the environment and work accordingly, and most amazing thing is that they would all defy human intelligence. All of this takes “Very less Space Indeed”.
5.The Cloud that knows all
Cloud Computing is already in its adolescence. In a decade, all the computers will be connected to each other via the cloud and all the data in them will be stored in the cloud. This would not just make the size of our computing devices small but will also enable us to access any data in any computer (under certain applied conditions) placed anywhere in the world. Futurists predict that by 2020, not just all the computers but all the electronic devices around us will be connected to cloud to create a huge family which is sharing data to serve the world better.
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