technology predictions for 2025 | Future timeline

Read 85 technology predictions for 2025, 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 2025

  • Global cybercrimes cost USD $10.5 trillion in damages. Likelihood: 80 percent.link
  • Hydrogen airships make a comeback with new prototypes. Likelihood: 50 percent.link
  • Meta releases its third-generation smart AR glasses. Likelihood: 70 percent.link
  • VinFast becomes the world's first automaker to commercialize XFC (Extreme Fast Charge) electric batteries. Likelihood: 65 percent.link
  • The world's first artificial shooting star display happens. Likelihood: 60 percent.link
  • Growth in traditional tech spending is driven by just four platforms: cloud, mobile, social, and big data/analytics.  Likelihood: 80 percentlink
  • New technologies such as robotics, artificial intelligence, and augmented and virtual realities represent over 25 percent of global Information and Communications Technology spending. Likelihood: 80 percentlink
  • Automated construction crews meant to replace human workers begin trails in locations worldwide link
  • Global number of Internet connected devices reaches 76760000000link
  • Abu Dhabi "Masdar City" is fully builtlink
  • Dubai's "Dubailand" is fully builtlink
  • China builds a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier by this year. Likelihood: 70%link
  • Drone usage in agriculture is adopted globally link
  • Electronic devices can be charged using Wi-Fi link
  • Smart kitchens that turn cooking into an interactive experience enter the marketplace link
  • Brain-reading devices allows wearers to learn new skills quicker link
  • Drone usage in agriculture is adopted globally. link
  • Electronic devices can be charged using Wi-Fi. link
  • Smart kitchens that turn cooking into an interactive experience enter the marketplace. link
  • Brain-reading devices allows wearers to learn new skills quicker. link
  • 30 percent of corporate audits will be performed by artificial intelligence. link
  • China launches Enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry (eXTP), a $440-million X-ray telescope led by the China National Space Administration this year. Likelihood: 75%link
Forecast
In 2025, 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% link
  • Since 2020, Africa’s largest data science academy, Explore Data Science Academy (EDSA), has trained 5,000 data scientists for jobs in South Africa. Likelihood: 80% link
  • Deutsche Telekom offers 5G coverage to 99% of Germany’s population and 90% of the country's geographic territory Likelihood: 70% link
  • Germany invests €3 billion euros in artificial intelligence research this year to help close the knowledge gap against countries competing in the field. Likelihood: 80% link
  • Between 2022 to 2026, the worldwide shift from smartphones to wearable augmented reality (AR) glasses will begin and will accelerate as the 5G rollout is completed. These next-generation AR devices will offer users context-rich information about their environment in real-time. (Likelihood 90%) link
  • Brain-reading devices allows wearers to learn new skills quicker link
  • Smart kitchens that turn cooking into an interactive experience enter the marketplace link
  • Electronic devices can be charged using Wi-Fi link
  • Drone usage in agriculture is adopted globally link
  • Automated construction crews meant to replace human workers begin trails in locations worldwide link
  • Cost of solar panels, per watt, equals 0.8 US dollars link
  • Dubai's "Dubailand" is fully built link
  • Abu Dhabi "Masdar City" is fully built link
  • Share of global car sales taken by autonomous vehicles equals 10 per cent link
  • World sales of electric vehicles reaches 9,866,667 link
  • Average number of connected devices, per person, is 9.5 link
  • Global number of Internet connected devices reaches 76,760,000,000 link
  • Predicted global mobile web traffic equals 104 exabytes link
  • Global Internet traffic grows to 398 exabytes link
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