I like to write predictions & probably add in some of my own very own “innovation” within it for the next 5 years.
Green technology will be more hands on, D.I.Y. style
My believe the greed of major corporations are one of the downfalls of green technology as they jacked up too much of the actual cost and pay too many middle men to distribute the green technology such as solar panels, windmills, sea wave generators, hydro generators & more.
The future of green tech will be “knowledge” based with millions of DIY projects videos up online free for people to learn & build it themselves and cheap courses to teach people how to be self sustainable yet able to use gadgets freely & cheaply.
Nano Technology based gadgets
With the new knowledge gained by nano technology, gadgets can be smaller & more portable and cheaper to manufacture & maintained. Clothes with nano cellphones embedded into their buttons & communicate with their own WIFI router with your digital 3D lens to give you a overlay of a screen that communicates with the Internet.
High resolution camera with night vision & 100x zoom attached to the lens of course is a bonus upgrade together with a vibration speaker attachment or earphone.
Future Battery
A tiny bacterium recovered from sediment may power batteries of the future. In a report published today in Nature Biotechnology, researchers describe a primitive microbial fuel cell that can convert simple sugars into electricity with 81 percent efficiency.
My prediction on this technology may means one day we might have bacterials battery that can be recharged multiple times simply by feeding it mentos into the bacterials battery cell bottle and charge my cell phone, computer or gadgets.
The Matrix – Innovation in green technology
Human body does have emit electrical impulses on their brains and have a body heat sufficient to be harvested to power electrical appliances, with some ingenious design of gadgets we can possibly harvest all sorts of energy from human kinetic movement to heat transfer to electric power.
The power may be small but together with whole BUILDING full of participants, electricity produced can means life or death in the future.
For examples, simple gravity assisted balls may turn turbines while moving down a roller coaster over a distances of loops but may use less energy to bring the balls up to the top levels and start over again.
Cyborgs will be out first in the market
Human addiction to gadgets may one day become a gadget themselves, this is not new to many science fiction fans but to actually be one is no easy task.
Human body does not blend well with metals & usually have bad side effects if the body refuse the gadgets embedded into your brain, arms or legs but with many people successfully installed robotic arms & legs that give users a fresh new beginning to their life is very very touching.
However, one day we might just WEAR these cyborgs exoskeleton on the outside of our body and move like a 2nd skin to ours giving us enhanced strength, speed and possibly accuracy in everything we do.
Just imagine a Mech Warriors style robot controlled virtually by just moving our hands & legs suspended in mid air? The coolness aside it may be even better being remotely controlled by a guy somewhere else but in a simulator box seeing everything the robot is seeing.
The problem with cyborgs is physiological with one day feeling that the robot is much more capable then the actual human will be a great depressing future but we cannot stop innovation.
Internet 2.0 will arrive
Whatever name you call it, it will be here faster then you know and we will be basking in it’s glory in due time.
The internet that give real time information & communication over the high speed network that allows you to do what you like when you like anytime anywhere.
Real time informations may means – micro blogs such as twitter, photographs, videos and audios stream seamlessly over the network freely and easily without constraint. Free version of the services comes with advertising while premium services are paid monthly.
Full body suits with internet filled with force feedback & sensors give users the feeling of surfing the multimedia world in real time with their whole body to experience it in comfort. (Simulated computer screen(s), simulated keyboard touch, simulated everything)
Knowledge they need can be pumped out quickly on demand & entertainment too…money can be made by content creators and that’s where advertising comes into play.
Original content creators license their content as creative commons but able to allow others to “remix” it and shared freely but with “shared revenue” from advertising.
ALL contents are feed in by users for users, companies simply need to make better & user friendly tools to make contents for the new internet 2.0 quickly & easily and given ample knowledge & passion a better internet will be born.
Internet controlled robotic may one day be a simple RPG game for some guy in a suit controlling the robot virtually inside the simulated controls of the robot in the comfort of his own home.
There are too many ideas that I can think of but the above is something I predict will happen in the near future.
