technology predictions for 2050 | Future timeline
Read 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
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% 1
- Toyota stops selling gasoline cars 1
- China's "South-to-North Water Transfer Project" is fully built 1
- Share of global car sales taken by autonomous vehicles equals 90 per cent 1
- World sales of electric vehicles reaches 26,366,667 1
- (Moore's Law) Calculations per second, per $1,000, equals 10^23 (equal to all human brain power globally) 1
- Average number of connected devices, per person, is 25 1
- Global number of Internet connected devices reaches 237,500,000,000 1
Prediction
Technology related predictions due to make an impact in 2050 include:
- Will humans live peacefully in a future dominated by artificial intelligences? - Future of artificial intelligence P6
- How humans will defend against an Artificial Superintelligence: Future of artificial intelligence P5
- 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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