technology predictions for 2045 | Future timeline
Read technology predictions for 2045, 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 2045
- India, in a 35-country effort, helps build the world's first nuclear fusion device. Likelihood: 70%1
- One in eight people worldwide now have type 2 diabetes due to skyrocketing rates of obesity. (Likelihood 60%)1
- Brainprints' joins fingerprints as the top measures of security. 1
- EV battery energy density to be at parity with gasoline. 1
- Brainprints' joins fingerprints as the top measures of security 1
- Tokyo and Nagoya maglev is fully built1
Forecast
In 2045, a number of technology breakthroughs and trends will become available to the public, for example:
- Between 2045 and 2048, China completes the construction of a massive, gigawatt-level, space-based solar farm orbiting 22,000 miles above the Earth that beams down energy to a land-based receiver in China. The orbital platform will also act as a second space station for China. Likelihood: 40% 1
- A reactor called Iter “International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor” starts delivering fusion power in France. 25% 1
- EV battery energy density to be at parity with gasoline. 1
- 'Brainprints' joins fingerprints as the top measures of security 1
- Tokyo and Nagoya maglev is fully built 1
- Share of global car sales taken by autonomous vehicles equals 70 per cent 1
- World sales of electric vehicles reaches 23,066,667 1
- Average number of connected devices, per person, is 22 1
- Global number of Internet connected devices reaches 204,600,000,000 1
Prediction
Technology related predictions due to make an impact in 2045 include:
- How humans will defend against an Artificial Superintelligence: Future of artificial intelligence P5
- Will an Artificial Superintelligence exterminate humanity? Future of artificial intelligence P4
- How we’ll create the first Artificial Superintelligence: Future of artificial intelligence P3
- Humans not allowed. The AI-only web: Future of the Internet P8
- Virtual reality and the global hive mind: Future of the Internet P7
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