The future, it turns out, begins in 2020

The New York Times recently published an article about a crowd sourced timeline from Science Times of what people predict to be reality in the coming years.  Think cancer will ever be cured? The timeline predicts that will happen in 2023.  How about making cash illegal?  Readers predicted this will also happen within our lifetime, 2056.  Finally, everyone's favorite, artificial intelligence.  According to the timeline this will happen by 2063.  Here are some other predictions the timeline made:

2012: COMPUTER ON A CHIP
2013: ELECTRONIC INK
2019: ONLINE SCIENCE
2019: UNIVERSAL MEDICAL DATABASE
2022: HALO OF DATA

 

2024: PRACTICAL ROBOT CARS

 

2026: PROGRAMMABLE ORGANISMS

 

2031: FULL LIFE RECORDING

 

2039: DIGITAL ‘LIFE’ AND EVOLUTION
2056: CASH IS OUTLAWED
2058: CYBERNETIC INTELLIGENCE

2060: FLYING CARS
2063: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
2114: MEMORY BACKUP
2259: COLLECTIVE LEARNING

This is a great example of how firms are using open source publishing and it incorporates how innovation will change our lives going forward. It is a pretty interesting timeline and something fun to think about.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/13/science/imagining-2076-connect-your-brain-to-the-internet.html?_r=1&ref=business