technology predictions for 2020 | Future timeline
Read technology predictions for 2020, a year that will see the world transform thanks to disruptions in technology that will impact a wide range of sectors—and we explore some of them below. It’s your future, discover what you’re in for.
Quantumrun Foresight prepared this list; A futurist consulting firm that uses strategic foresight to help companies thrive from future trends. This is just one of many possible futures society may experience.
technology forecasts for 2020
Forecast
In 2020, a number of technology breakthroughs and trends will become available to the public, for example:
- China achieves its aim of producing 40 percent of the semiconductors it uses in its manufactured electronics by 2020 and 70 percent by 2025. Likelihood: 80% 1
- Rogers, a Canadian telecom, rolls out a nationwide LTE network (LTE-M) designed for devices connected to the Internet of Things (IoT). This network will serve as a platform to enable future consumer IoT applications such as wearables. Likelihood: 90% 1
- 5G spectrum auctions to be sold between 2020 to 2021 to accelerate the build-out of a national 5G network. Likelihood: 100% 1
- 5G internet connectivity to be introduced into major Canadian cities between 2020 to 2022. Likelihood: 80% 1
- Cost of solar panels, per watt, equals 1.2 US dollars 1
- London's "Stratford City" is fully built 1
- China completes the world's largest rail system (120,000 km) 1
- Indonesian's "Sunda Strait Bridge" is fully built 1
- Saudi Arabia's "Kingdom Tower" is fully built 1
- Congo's "Great Inga Dam" is fully built 1
- Scandinavia and Germany's "Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link" is fully built 1
- China's "Great City" is fully built 1
- Share of global car sales taken by autonomous vehicles equals 5 per cent 1
- World sales of electric vehicles reaches 6,600,000 1
- (Moore's Law) Calculations per second, per $1,000, equals 10^13 (one mouse brain) 1
- Average number of connected devices, per person, is 6.5 1
- Global number of Internet connected devices reaches 50,050,000,000 1
- Predicted global mobile web traffic equals 24 exabytes 1
- Global Internet traffic grows to 188 exabytes 1
Prediction
Technology related predictions due to make an impact in 2020 include:
- Cloud computing becomes decentralized: Future of Computers P5
- The next social web vs. godlike search engines: Future of the Internet P2
- Gestures, holograms, and matrix-style mind uploading
- The digital storage revolution: Future of Computers P3
- The big business future behind self-driving cars: Future of Transportation P2
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