22 future technologies that will change the world

They are listed by the British edition of BBC Science Focus Magazine.

Every year technology is getting better and better. Today, we have access to some innovations that were previously described only in science fiction. About what other discoveries will change the way people live and improve the world – in the article.

The author of the article lists 22 technologies, the development and implementation of which will definitely change the future of people.

1. Robots controlled by signals coming from the human brain . Similar technologies already exist. For example, scientists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) have created a means of interacting with the world for people with tetraplegia (those who cannot move their upper or lower body). In the future, it will also be possible to create wheelchairs that are controlled by the brain.
2. Bones printed on a 3D printer . The company Ossiform is engaged in the creation of such bones. For this, a special material is used, similar in properties to human bones – tricalcium phosphate.
3. Dairy products of laboratory production . Since the dairy industry has a negative impact on the environment, scientists are looking for ways to fix it. Now experts around the world are working on the creation of artificially produced products: milk, ice cream, cheese, eggs.
4. Hydrogen aircraft . This will reduce carbon emissions. Now the development of a hydrogen-powered aircraft is being carried out by the Institute of Aerospace Technology together with the British government. The project is called Fly Zero.
5. Digital health tracking twins . The American company Q Bio is going to develop a 3D digital avatar of the patient’s body – a digital twin. With it, you can find out about the state of the body. In addition, the company’s employees have created a special scanner that allows you to measure many indicators in an hour, including the level of hormones and body fat.
6. Universes of Virtual Reality . In the next few years, new equipment for accessing virtual reality will appear and, in general, it will improve on its own. This will be facilitated by the development of companies Meta, Google, Sony and others.
7. Direct air capture . This technology will make it possible to extract carbon dioxide from the air or store this gas underground. It is also possible to use carbon dioxide to create synthetic fuels. So far, such devices require a lot of energy to operate, which causes difficulties.
8. Environmentally friendly funeral . Now in the United States it is possible to place a human corpse in chambers with bark, earth, straw and other compounds that will contribute to natural decomposition. As a result, the body decomposes and turns into soil within 30 days. You can also use a special “mushroom suit”, in which the deceased is dressed and which also accelerates decomposition,
9. Artificial eyes . Last January, doctors were able to restore sight to a 78-year-old patient thanks to an artificial cornea. Now scientists from the University of Montash in Australia are testing a system that is a camera glasses. The device transmits information to an implant installed in the brain, and enables a person to see.
10. Airports for drones and flying taxis . Now such an airport is being built in the UK. Particularly in Coventry.
11. Energy storage bricks . American scientists have created a way that allows bricks to store energy, like batteries. So far, the development is being tested, but the researchers say that the walls of these bricks “can store a significant amount of energy” and can “recharge hundreds of thousands of times within an hour.”

12. Sweat powered smart watch . Such a device was created at the University of Glasgow. It can be fully charged with as little as 20 microliters of liquid.
13. Self-healing “living concrete” . It was created thanks to sand, gel and bacteria. The authors of the development are scientists from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
14. Living robots . According to the developers, this is a new kind of creatures. They are living, programmable organisms.
15. Internet for everyone . At the moment, only about half of the world’s population has access to the Internet. Special microsatellites (Hiber company) and helium balloons (Google company) are now used to solve the problem.
16. Recycling coffee waste . Now entrepreneur Arthur Kay is proposing to turn 85 percent of coffee waste into biofuels to heat buildings and power vehicles. At the moment, his bio-bean company collects coffee grounds from restaurants, coffee shops and transports them to its processing plant in Cambridgeshire.
17. Putting out forest fires with sounds . In the future, it will be possible to extinguish forest fires using drones that will send loud sounds to the trees. A start has already been made: scientists from George Mason University in Virginia have created a sonic fire extinguisher that, under certain conditions, can extinguish the flame.
18. AI scientist . A similar algorithm was created at Tufts University, Massachusetts. Artificial intelligence was able to unravel the mystery of flatworm regeneration in 42 hours. In other words, the machine independently developed a new abstract theory.
19. Car batteries that charge in 10 minutes . Researchers at Pennsylvania State University in the US have come up with a new kind of battery. Such a battery itself heats up to 60 degrees Celsius, and then cools down. As a result, an electric car can be charged up to 100 percent in just 10 minutes.
20. Artificial neurons on silicon chips . There is already such a development. Scientists hope that in the future it can be used to treat heart failure and Alzheimer’s disease.
21. floating farms . Such structures will work on energy received from the sun. One such 350 x 200 m farm will produce about 8.1 tons of vegetables and 1.7 tons of fish annually. Now such a project is proposed by architect Javier Ponce from Forward Thinking Architecture.
22. Pleistocene Park . This is a massive project to recreate a 12,000 year old habitat in a wildlife park. Wild horses, bison, and mammoths (more precisely, modern hybrids) will live in the park.