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The Signposts Timeline of Future Technology and Social Change 2050 AD-2081 AD World population is leveling off and getting older; software complexity is being overcome via directed evolution techniques, even as growing social complexity now makes consensus and across-the-board change tougher to manage; the power of flight is becoming available to everyone Sponsor this page a - j r m o o n e y h a m . c o m - o r i g i n a l

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Signposts 2050 AD-2081 AD Table of Contents

2040s-2050s: True 'automobility' finally becomes available to all

2040s-2050s: By now, what remains of the world's rainforests have either been nationalized or commercialized...

2050: Mid-sized and smaller local news organizations (such as newspaper publishers) have undergone a revolution in many regions of USAmerica and other developed nations

Human technologies are beginning to 'evolve' like highly specialized lifeforms

2050: Directed evolution designs are combining with other breakthoughs to take human life and endeavor to a whole new plateau of possibilities

2050s: By now the fantasy of people 'speaking from beyond the grave' may literally have come true...

2050: Over 50% of the world's energy needs today may be met by renewable sources such as solar, wind, and others

2050: Global population levels off at somewhere between 8 and 15 billion; technology extends our senses (and memory capacities) still further...

1997-2050s: Growing complexity and difficulties in building consensus...

2000-2050: The two separate economies of planet Earth from 2000 to 2050

2058: By this time several major old-line nations have computer automated their internal bureaucracies (reduced their real human employee presence) by at least 40% overall relative to peak employment

2000-2060s: The rise of Mall Cities and Aquaculture, and rapid development of many third world countries

2005-2060s: The sins of excess make a roaring comeback

2058: Single PC-like devices of this time may possess raw processing power equivalent to the entire human population of the USA circa 2000

2060: Over 50% of the world's energy generation may now be done on a highly individualized and local level; High tech telepathy is emerging

2060s: State-of-the-art war technologies

2060s/ 2070s Milestones in on person gear and lifestyles

2070s Milestones in personal lifestyles; individual isolation increases

2073: It's verified by now that "invisible man" suits are among the most advanced equipment in military high tech

2075: Micro-hands enter the consumer market

2075: Major historical world religions are melting under the weight of broad and deep education of global populations, and the consequences of their own often heavy hand in politics, economics, and technology-- while advanced technology/intelligence/ extraterrestrial-related worship is soaring among some quarters.

2080: Cheap personal transportation makes a leap into the air

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