By: Ilya Vedrashko
E-ink, 3D printers, disintegrator, mindwipes, replicators, human memory downloads, reputation trading, 3D fax, video wallpaper, virtual reality windows.
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All this is due before 2050 according to the Innovation Timeline (pdf) by NowAndNext.com. Also useful is their list of links to sites similarly concerned with the future.
-- via Fallon Planning
Original Post: http://adverlab.blogspot.com/2007/03/future-innovation-timeline-2050.html
I thought you might like this new timeline - one that works the other way around...
http://www.nowandnext.com/PDF/extinction_timeline.pdf
It's open source so people are encouraged to add, delete, amend or otherwise play around with it and also please note that it's a bit of fun and shouldn't be taken too seriously!
No spime? How did they miss that one? And by 2050 I'm fairly sure we'll have kirkyans.
Call me unimpressed.