Commercial Micro-scale wind

& water harvesting

Timeline of
ocean thermal Wave disc
Drone energy conversion building facades
delivery engine for
War forecasting vehicles
algorithms pizza :)
Thorium
Graphene Travelling wave reactors
supercapacitors Fuel-cell powered light nuclear reactors Iron-fertilisation
passenger aircraft of oceans

Emerging Science
3D-printed soil
Commercial for vertical
airliner highjacked Cities ban agriculture
human drivers Large scale
Polaratronics enables via smartphone Beamed energy for carbon capture
computing near ecological monitoring & storage Transparent High-speed
speed of light (organic)solar pedestrian

and Technology
& military UAVs cells on skyscrapers
Battery-free wireless walkways
communications
Biodegradable
batteries Insect-burger
Warfare Synthetic food vans
merges with Autonomous Artificial
electric taxi fleets Ambient RF jet fuels photosythesis
gaming energy
Room temperature of hydrogen Motorway lanes
harvesting for autonomous Hyper-loop
superconductors Cyberattack Consumer mass transit
vehicles systems
causes city-wide spot-pricing
Physical creditcards powercut of electricity
become obsolete Intercontinental
Lip-reading robotic surgery In-road
Robots Quantum dot QR scannable inductive Tokomak nuclear
CCTV grave stones
outnumber night vision charging fusion for power
human beings windows Haptic Demand for electric generation
clothing Internet of responsive LED street vehicles
things exceeds domestic lighting Electric
Hacking of 50 billion Mobile appliances grid-scale Satellite-beamed
implanted devices Facial traffic storage space solar-power
Legend
neuro-devices recognition dominates Synthetic meat
CCTV internet Vibration Domestic in supermarkets
Mood-sensing Unassisted energy Aerogel powerplants Phase-out of Malaria eradicated
machines robotic Internet harvesting building (CCHP) incandescent by introduction
surgery connected light bulbs Ultracapacitor of GM mosquitos BIO-TECH
Internet of things Insect-sized insulation vehicles
exceeds 1 trillion surveillance toothbrushes DIGITAL-TECH
RFID implants
devices robots Avatar Prophylactic for personal
Hangover-free girlfriends Community grids Algal antibiotics data storage NANO-TECH
alcohol substitute Cheap biofuels banned in
Holographic
Crypto
concentrator Smart animals
Human genetic NEURO-TECH
currencies engineering
data storage Augmented solar meters legalised GREEN-TECH
reality glasses Life-
logging EN
GRE
AI in GP ‘Pharming’ humanised
surgeries
I TA L DNA dating animals for medicines
Lifelong AI in DIG agencies Human
avatar
assistants
autonomous
drone-drone
combat
NFC
fingerprints
Mobile
phones
outnumber N ANO
BIO Personalised
microbiome
organ
cloning Tattooed circuits
(video tattoos on
Innovation or event
Realtime people Gene therapy therapy the human body) Defined as existing now or thereabouts with at
language Crime
O PRESENT
R least 1,000 examples existing where appropriate
NEU
translation prevention Pre-emptive
algorithms Antibacterial medical inteventions Last antibiotic
Solar flare nano particles based on genome
knocks out Basic brain computer for clothing
Synthetic organisms discovered Cloned human P R O B A B L E Defined as occurring between 2015-2030
GPS network interfaces for gaming being
Autonomous self-replication Plastics Ubiquitous P O S S I B L E Defined as potentially occurring after 2030
of crude non-biological Neuroimaging
of active brain Cochlear Genetic testing from crops bio-sensing
systems Smartdust Thought implants for inherited
areas Brain
sensor controlled diseases Commercial
networks Nano particles fingerprinting
Notes and acknowledgements
wheelchair in cosmetics pet cloning
used in court Microbe-sensing
and sunscreens Analytical food packaging
Nanotubes 3D printed
Recording of for synthetic Printed Body hacking underwear
Methanol fuel orthopaedic Conceived and created by Richard Watson and Alex Ayad
entire human neurons and Prosthetic plastic Quantum dot for sensory implants
life from birth cells for consumer with input from Chris Haley and additional input from the
neural implants limbs controlled electronic televisions augmentation

T
to death electronics
by thought circuits ‘Smarties’ at Imperial College London.

N
E
Optical IBM makes feature film Nootropic drugs S Note that whilst most entries on the timeline are deeply serious, a
computing from animated atoms Self-healing Nanoparticles
for medical & E Animal-free Pandemic
paints & surfaces for cancer imaging R leather by synthetic few are less so. High resolution files suitable for printing can be
Eye-tracking
& treatment recreational use P organism obtained free of charge from [email protected] or
Brain-computer
interfaces widely in mobile phones Templates [email protected]
for protein Scaffolds for growing Bioluminescent
supplement keyboards household lighting
Fully plastic crystallisation stem cell body parts Over-the-counter A3 and A1 printed wall charts can also be ordered via these
transistors Scrunchable screens genome test
addresses although a charge is applied purely to cover print,

E
and devices

L
Stem cell treatment packing and postage costs.

B
Routine brain Meta material Intention decoding
Quantum computers for Parkinson’s A
finger printing Nanotubes for
antennae algorithms
for crypto-cracking disease B
of air travellers synthetic neurons O End of
R dementia
& neural implants P
Next generation Adaptive electronic Artifical retina 3D printed bio-nano
super lightweight assistant to prevent implants scaffolds
Dream imaging and composites information-overload www.nowandnext.com
recording via fMRI Lab demo of optical

E
meta material L
100 atoms per bit cloaking Artificial muscles I B
data density Graphene Periodic made from spun S
Domestic fridges supercapacitors hypertable nanotubefibre S
sense use-by O www.imperialtechforesight.com
dates Communications devices
P
widely embedded inside
the human body
Artificial neuro-writing Brain prostheses
of basic thoughts to enhance or
erase memory DNA-based
data storage
Fully autonomous Quantum computers
battlefield robots used for material design