Gallery: The Wonders of the Year 2020

"So yeah, somebody might be able to put electronics inside somebody’s cranium, but i personally believe it’s only going to be nominally useful for very, very narrow therapeutic applications.”

I think that is an outrageous statement. The technology is moving so fast that with ten years we definitely be using thought to navigate endless information, apps and virtual reality.

games won't be played on a tv. We will close our eyes and the system will start up and will be exactly like reality.

and also keep in mind these electronics will not be metal and wires but synthetic biology using nanotechnology and our own dna.

@boka
yeah take movies like the matrix and total recall. we wont have to travel to far away planets. we will create them using the mind(simulations).

OK I can see augmented reality(we're there, but not as good as it will be), the flexible OLED screens(there all ready), the processor chips(almost there), and the translator(almost there as well) and maybe the Blue Brain thingy becoming a reality by 2020; the rest though - not likely.

What you will see. :)

Airships! Lots of Airships! Airships will come back in a huge way. With the new tech and hybrid designs these are primed to make a come back like never before. The many uses these machines have is just awesome compared to most flying vehicles.

SSMD (solid state memory devices) will replace what we use now. In fact just as the floppy died, so will the spinning disk storage.

We will have no need for huge desktop computers. Our smartphones will be all we need and we'll take them with us where ever we go. If we wish to cruise the web on a bigger screen we can just drop out smart phone into a docking station of a display or plug it in via USB. They will also come with a projector built in but it'll eat battery life much faster without an external source. Oh and your smartphone will have terabytes of storage, so you can have a huge libraries of music, movies and info right at your fingertips. Smartphones become our personal computers of the future. :)

BTW the Internet and TV finally integrate completely. TV as you know it will almost cease to exist.

Movie theaters die - well for the most part(some stay operational - but by 2020 theaters are pretty much dead). So instead of going to a movie in a theater you'll just watch it opening night on your display wall at home. Purchase viewing it by simply pushing a button.

Solar Cells and Fuel Cells are much more efficient than ever before and 50% of all US homes are off the grid by 2020.

Cool huh!

yeah we all know what happened to Popular Science visions of the future 30 and 40 years ago!

Not even close!

Smartphones will not replace PCs. Regardless of advances in technology miniaturization, larger machines will still be more powerful. It is ignorant of a vast majority of the market for computers to say smart phones will replace desktop machines. We will see the current incarnation of the PC for at least the next 50 years.

And no, there will be no thinking to play virtual reality games within 10 years. At least 2 to 3 decades away from games you can control with your mind, much less experience it all there.

Movie theaters also will not die. That is the main source of profit for filmmakers. Regardless of advancements in home entertainment, filmmakers can still release their movies straight to theaters and charge more than they would for you to watch at home.

Sorry, just had to throw a dose of reality into this wild fantasy.

I can’t imagine the cost of food if, God forbid, biofuels are cost-competitive with fossil fuels. Then again $20 a gallon gas doesn’t seem unlikely in 2020 at this point.

I don't see a dramatic change on how we live our lives in 9 years. People will still be pumping gas at the pump and faxing documents!

Technology moves faster than we adopt it. There are too many political and economical factors at play. We give too much attention to the things that don't really matter. Like sports, movie stars, and war.

Technology moves faster than we adopt it. There are too many political and economical factors at play. thanks for the sharing.