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Think back 100 years. Electricity had pretty much just been invented. Movies had no sound, and even carrier pigeons were even still being used! Things have come a long way since then, which has us wondering, what will technology look like in the next 100 years?

There are some pretty life-changing inventions predicted to come about in the next century. Flying cars, once thought to be a thing of just science fiction, are actually progressing at lightning speed. A lot of the technology already exists, and yeah, it’s gonna go through a lot of changes, but some experts believe that flying cars will be available to the public in just ten to fifteen years! Regulations are still in the works, but it sounds like you’ll be whizzing around in your flying car well before 2120.

Another future tech? Brain-linked VR. It doesn’t exist just yet, but it’s thought that this could run directly through your brain, bypassing biological sensory systems, creating artificial experiences of touch, smell, and maybe even taste. It could construct an alternate reality so realistic that you might mix up what’s real and what’s not.

The homes you live in will be pretty different, too. People are expecting that we’ll be 3D printing incredible homes and even making them foldable and transportable! The hope is that 3D printing in general will allow us to print literally anything we need. New hammer? No problem! Need a car part? You got it! New organ? No, not that organ. Yeah, That kinda organ! Yeah, even that’s being developed.

 

And improvements to health care don’t stop with artificial body parts. Some researchers are hoping that by 2120, we’ll all have little nanobots circulating through our body that constantly search for threats like illness and disease, and then fix the problem from the inside out!

With tech of the future, you may be able to, one day, have an extra set of robot arms and realize your dreams of becoming a human spider!

You’ve probably already heard of the powered exoskeletons being developed, but one of the more promising advancements in the field is having a mechanical “third arm” to help you out with tasks.

 

Currently being developed for the military, this third arm is lightweight, doesn’t need batteries, and can even distribute the load of a heavy weapon. A small pilot study in 2017 showed that it could reduce some arm fatigue and muscle activation, as well as improve marksmanship for some soldiers. So it’s already on its way to beating Triangle Bob in an arm wrestling match! And his arm fell off. That is unfortunate.

Of course, in order to create these kinds of tech, scientists, researchers, and corporations will need a lot of help from good ol’ trusty computers. Today’s computers have become a lot more powerful over the last 50 years, but advancements have started to slow down recently. Moore’s Law stated that the number of transistors per silicon computing chip would double every two years, which it did until recently, which sounds bad for speed and efficiency, but some experts aren’t too worried. Instead, they’re taking other steps to work around this, like reassessing the outdated structure of computers.

 

Many CPUs still have features that date back to the 1940s! and until just a few years ago, tons of computers were still using code from the 1980s! Despite the work that needs to be done, coding is still advancing and powering every aspect of our digital world, including me! It allows humans to give computers and programs step-by-step instructions to do all kinds of things, like track Triangle Bob’s step count! Really? 5 steps? What did you walk to fridge and collapse?

What tech would you wanna see in the next 100 years? Any issue that you need solved? Let me know in the comment section below.

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