Sci-fi or not, it doesn't matter!<p>I believe we'll see the ability to print silicon chips and PCBs at home, and single board micro-server racks.
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.
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:<p>1. Controlled thermonuclear energy (bye oil, hello new crysis in eastern oil backed countries)<p>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.<p>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.<p>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.<p>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).<p>2. More efficient, cheaper home solar panels, battery wall, EVs, heat pumps, to achieve net zero at home.<p>3. AR glasses that are not nerdy, and actually useful in the real world.<p>4. AI technology that fact checks every social media post.
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?<p>it's strange to see this question in the gpt era.<p>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? ;-)