technology predictions for 2050 | Future timeline

Read 44 technology predictions for 2050, 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 2050

  • Toyota stops selling gasoline cars link
  • China's "South-to-North Water Transfer Project" is fully builtlink
Forecast
In 2050, a number of technology breakthroughs and trends will become available to the public, for example:
  • South Africa’s electricity system concludes that a fully renewable-energy-based system is at least 25% more cost-competitive than its past carbon-based energy network. Likelihood: 70% link
  • Toyota stops selling gasoline cars link
  • China's "South-to-North Water Transfer Project" is fully built link
  • Share of global car sales taken by autonomous vehicles equals 90 per cent link
  • World sales of electric vehicles reaches 26,366,667 link
  • (Moore's Law) Calculations per second, per $1,000, equals 10^23 (equal to all human brain power globally) link
  • Average number of connected devices, per person, is 25 link
  • Global number of Internet connected devices reaches 237,500,000,000 link
Prediction
Technology related predictions due to make an impact in 2050 include:

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