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Short description: Technology that could exist in the future
Hypothetical technologies are technologies that do not exist yet, but that could exist in the future.[1] They are distinct from emerging technologies, which have achieved some developmental success. Emerging technologies as of 2018 include 3-D metal printing and artificial embryos.[2] Many hypothetical technologies have been the subject of science fiction.
The criteria for this list are that the technology:
- Must not exist yet
- If the technology does not have an existing article (i.e. it is "redlinked"), a reference must be provided for it
Biology
- Acne vaccine[3]
- Anti-evolutionary drug[4]
- Antiprion drug
- Artificial gametes[5]
- Artificial gill
- Artificial "super" mitochondria[6]
- Caries vaccine
- De-extinction
- Dyson tree
- Ethnic bioweapon
- Female sperm
- Flying syringe
- Hair cloning
- HIV vaccine
- Humanzee
- Life extension
- Liquid breathing
- Male egg
- Nanochondrion
- Nootropic
- Prime editing
- Respirocyte
- Synthetic epigenetics[7]
- Universal flu vaccine
- Universal snakebite antidote[8]
Engineering and manufacturing
- Biogel refrigerator[9]
- Chitin-cellulose composite[10]
- Diamond trees
- Exoskeletal engine
- Mezoelectronics[11]
- Microfactory
- Piezer[12]
- Tectonic weapon
- Vertical zoo[13]
- Wearable generator
Computing and robotics
- Dentifrobot[14]
- Hypercomputer
- Inferential programming
- Plant-based digital data storage
- Quantum memory
- Quantum money
- Robotoid
- Roll-away computer
- S-money[15]
- Universal memory
Megastructures
- Cloud Nine (tensegrity sphere)
- Globus Cassus
- Seascraper
- Shellworld
- Vertical city[16]
Nanotechnology
- Bush robot
- Claytronics
- Grey goo
- Mechanosynthesis
- Molecular assembler
- Nanocomputer
- Nanomatrix skyscraper[17]
- Programmable matter
- Santa Claus machine
- Utility fog
- Wet nanotechnology
- Zettascale computing[18]
Transport
- Bering Strait crossing
- ET3 Global Alliance
- Flying submarine
- Gravity train
- Gravity-vacuum transit
- Transatlantic tunnel
- Vacuum airship
- Water-fueled car
Minds and psychology
- Artificial general intelligence
- Brain in a vat
- Brainwashing
- Cortical modem
- Digital immortality
- Endoneurobot[19]
- Gliabot[19]
- Global brain
- Infomorph
- Intelligence amplification
- Language-learning pill[20]
- Matrioshka brain
- Memory editing[21]
- Mind uploading
- Moral enhancement
- Omega Point
- Simulated reality
- Sphalerizer[22]
- Superintelligence
- Synaptobot[19]
- Technological singularity
- Thought recording and reproduction device
- Universal translator
Physics
- Anti-gravity
- Antimatter weapon
- Artificial gravity
- Brownian ratchet
- Cloaking device
- Cold fusion
- Coleopter
- Computronium
- Electrogravitics
- Faster than light communication
- Femtotechnology
- Fusion torch
- Gamma-ray bomb[23]
- Gravitational shielding
- Hafnium bomb
- Inertia negation
- Monopolium[24]
- Muon collider
- Neutronium
- Nuclear bullet[25]
- Nuclear clock
- Nuclear lightbulb
- Nuclear shaped charge
- Organic nuclear reactor
- Perpetual motion
- Phased-array optics
- Picotechnology
- Plasmonster[26]
- Project Excalibur
- Pure fusion weapon
- Room-temperature superconductor
- Space-time cloak[27]
- Tachyonic antitelephone
- Teleforce
- Teleporter
- Time machine
- Tipler cylinder
- Torsion field (pseudoscience)
- Tractor beam
- Wet workshop
Space
- Alderson disk
- Alcubierre drive
- Antimatter rocket
- Artificial universe[28]
- Asteroid laser ablation
- Beam powered propulsion
- Bernal sphere
- Bias drive[29]
- Bishop ring
- Black hole starship
- Bracewell probe
- Bussard ramjet
- Dean drive
- Diametric drive[29]
- Dipole drive[30]
- Disjunction drive[29]
- Dyson sphere
- Dyson–Harrop satellite
- Enzmann starship
- Field propulsion
- Fission sail
- Ford-Svaiter mirror[31]
- Fusion rocket
- Gravity tractor
- Halo drive[32]
- Information panspermia
- Isotropic beacon
- Krasnikov tube
- Laser broom
- Laser propulsion
- Launch loop
- Lightcraft
- Lunarcrete
- Lunar space elevator
- MagBeam
- Magnetic sail
- McKendree cylinder
- Momentum exchange tether
- Nano electrokinetic thruster
- Nanoship[33]
- Non-rocket spacelaunch
- Nuclear pulse propulsion
- Nuclear salt-water rocket
- O'Neill cylinder
- Orbital ring
- Ouroboros habitat[34]
- Photon rocket
- Photonic railway[35]
- Pitch drive[29]
- Plasma bubble[36]
- Quantum telescope
- Quantum vacuum thruster
- Quasite[37]
- Ringworld
- Reactionless drive
- RF resonant cavity thruster
- Rocket sled launch
- Rotating wheel space station
- Self-replicating spacecraft
- Skyhook
- Solar thermal rocket
- Soletta
- Space coach[38]
- Space dock
- Space elevator
- Space fountain
- Space gun
- Space mirror
- Space tether
- Space tug
- Spomified asteroid
- Stanford torus
- Starlifting
- Starseed launcher
- StarTram
- Statite
- Stellar engine
- Sun scoop
- Terrascope[39]
- Thermonuclear micro-bomb engine[40]
- Topopolis
See also
- List of emerging technologies
- List of existing technologies predicted in science fiction
- List of fictional aircraft
- List of fictional artificial intelligences
- List of fictional cars
- List of fictional cyborgs
- List of fictional doomsday devices
- List of fictional galactic communities
- List of fictional robots and androids
- List of fictional gynoids
- List of fictional space stations
- List of fictional spacecraft
- List of fictional vehicles
References
- ↑ Andersen, David; Dawes, Sharon (1991). Government Information Management: A Primer and Casebook. Prentice Hall. pp. 125.
- ↑ "You'll want to keep an eye on these 10 breakthrough technologies this year" (in en). MIT Technology Review. https://www.technologyreview.com/lists/technologies/2018/.
- ↑ Unknown (August 29, 2018). "On the horizon: An acne vaccine" (in en). sciencedaily.com. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180829115522.htm.
- ↑ unknown (November 19, 2018). ""Anti-Evolution Drugs" Could Offer New Strategy against Antimicrobial Resistance Crisis" (in en). genengnews.com. https://www.genengnews.com/news/anti-evolution-drugs-could-offer-new-strategy-against-antimicrobial-resistance-crisis/.
- ↑ AJ Newson (January 1, 2005). "Artificial gametes: new paths to parenthood?" (in en). jme.bmj.com. https://jme.bmj.com/content/31/3/184.
- ↑ Andrés Caicedo (July 2, 2017). "Artificial Mitochondria Transfer: Current Challenges, Advances, and Future Applications" (in en). hindawi.com. https://www.hindawi.com/journals/sci/2017/7610414/.
- ↑ Tomasz P Jurkowski (March 4, 2015). "Synthetic epigenetics—towards intelligent control of epigenetic states and cell identity" (in en). Clinical Epigenetics 7 (1): 18. doi:10.1186/s13148-015-0044-x. PMID 25741388.
- ↑ Unknown (May 28, 2014). "Universal antidote for snakebite: Experimental trial represents promising step toward" (in en). sciencedaily.com. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/05/140528105256.htm.
- ↑ Yuriy Dmitriev (December 7, 2015). "Zero-energy Bio Refrigerator cools your food with future gel" (in en). inhabitat.com. https://inhabitat.com/zero-energy-bio-refrigerator-cools-your-food-with-future-gel/.
- ↑ Natalie Parletta (July 26, 2018). "Can crab shells and trees replace plastics?" (in en). cosmosmagazine. https://cosmosmagazine.com/biology/can-crab-shells-and-trees-replace-plastics.
- ↑ Ryszard Romaniuk (June 1, 2010). "Electronics and telecommunications in Poland, issues and perspectives Part II: Science, Research, Development, Higher Education" (in en). researchgate.net. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/234054011.
- ↑ Bill Christensen (August 19, 2005). "Homeland Security Orders Modern Version of Jules Verne's Leyden Ball" (in en). livescience.com. https://www.livescience.com/395-homeland-security-orders-modern-version-jules-verne-leyden-ball.html.
- ↑ BuBa Arquitectos (February 15, 2015). "The Vertical Zoo: A wild greenery-wrapped tower that provides refuge for animalia" (in en). inhabitat.com. https://inhabitat.com/the-vertical-zoo-a-wild-greenery-wrapped-tower-that-provides-refuge-for-animalia/.
- ↑ Neetha J. Shetty (January 17, 2013). "Nanorobots: Future in dentistry" (in en). ncbi.nlm.nih.go 25 (2): pp. 49–52. doi:10.1016/j.sdentj.2012.12.002. PMID 23960556.
- ↑ Cambridge University (May 7, 2019). "S-money: Ultra-secure form of virtual money proposed" (in en). phys.org. https://phys.org/news/2019-05-s-money-ultra-secure-virtual-money.html.
- ↑ Kayla Matthews (December 2, 2018). "Vertical Cities: Can Mega-Skyscrapers Solve Urban Population Overload?" (in en). planetizen.com. https://www.planetizen.com/blogs/101788-vertical-cities-can-mega-skyscrapers-solve-urban-population-overload.
- ↑ Shahar Polachek (September 22, 2017). "Nanomatrix Skyscraper" (in en). evolo.us. http://www.evolo.us/nanomatrix-skyscraper/.
- ↑ Tiffany Trader (December 6, 2018). "Zettascale by 2035? China Thinks So" (in en). hpcwire.com. https://www.hpcwire.com/2018/12/06/zettascale-by-2035/.
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 Frontiers in Neurosci (March 29, 2019). "Human Brain/Cloud Interface" (in en). ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 13: pp. 112. doi:10.3389/fnins.2019.00112. PMID 30983948.
- ↑ Sara Gates (July 10, 2014). "Could We One Day Learn A Language By Popping A Pill?" (in en). huffpost.com. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/learn-language-pill-drugs-video_n_5574748?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAALZnwyNzhdopLHPOfQl3NFAZCvQsNmgtgbNQu-90jO0cb5zAFVETVjW3AZ04KX0gI974naXjA1N8AZkrE3RXwzFyr801T9te20kGmKb2vLclKIS--m_6s0CIGB88n--0rDfpX6dssrRqWvykQnNlqbFM0kIpLGsS62wEKUX1WzZp.
- ↑ Rachel Riederer (February 20, 2017). "Memory Editing Technology Will Give Us Perfect Recall and Let Us Alter Memories at Will" (in en). vice.com. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5355ed/memory-editing-technology-will-give-us-perfect-recall-and-let-us-alter-memories-at-will-v24n1.
- ↑ Max Tegmark (August 29, 2017). "Superintelligence: a space odyssey" (in en). Financial Times. https://www.ft.com/content/31176c28-8bea-11e7-9084-d0c17942ba93. Retrieved 2019-07-09.
- ↑ David Adam (August 14, 2003). "US military pioneers death ray bomb" (in en). The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/aug/14/usa.davidadam.
- ↑ L.N. Epele (June 3, 2008). "Monopolium: the key to monopoles" (in en). The European Physical Journal C 56 (1): 87–95. doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-008-0628-0. Bibcode: 2008EPJC...56...87E.
- ↑ Andre Gsponer (February 2, 2008). "Fourth Generation Nuclear Weapons: Military effectiveness and collateral effects". arXiv:physics/0510071.
- ↑ Kristin Lewotsky (July 1, 2007). "The Promise of Plasmonics" (in en). spie.org. http://www.spie.org/news/spie-professional-magazine/2007-july/the-promise-of-plasmonics?SSO=1.
- ↑ Clay Dillow (November 16, 2010). "Metamaterial 'Space-Time Cloak' Conceals Not Just Objects, But Entire Events" (in en). Popsci.com. https://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-11/metamaterial-space-time-cloak-doesnt-just-conceal-objects-entire-events/.
- ↑ Zeeya Merali (June 19, 2017). "Creating a Universe in the Lab? The Idea Is No Joke" (in en). blogs.discovermagazine.com. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2017/06/19/build-a-universe-in-the-lab/.
- ↑ 29.0 29.1 29.2 29.3 Marc G. Millis (July 16, 1996). "The Challenge To Create The Space Drive" (in en). ntrs.nasa.gov. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19990023236.pdf.
- ↑ Robert Zubrin (May 18, 2019). "Robert Zubrin has new propellantless space propulsion concept – Dipole Drive" (in en). nextbigfuture.com. https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2018/05/robert-zubrin-has-new-propellentless-space-propulsion-concept-dipole-drive.html.
- ↑ Jillian Scharr (June 26, 2013). "Why Warp Drives Aren't Just Science Fiction" (in en). Space.com. https://www.space.com/21721-warp-drives-wormholes-ftl.html.
- ↑ David Kipping (March 11, 2019). "The Halo Drive: fuel-free relativistic propulsion of large masses via recycled boomerang photons". arXiv:1903.03423 [gr-qc].
- ↑ Michio Kaku (March 15, 2011). "Physics of the Future" (in en). Doubleday.
- ↑ Dattatreya Mandal (October 19, 2015). "MIT's conceptualized Mars habitat makes use of 'native' silica on the alien planet" (in en). hexapolis.com. https://www.hexapolis.com/2015/10/19/mits-conceptualized-mars-habitat-makes-use-of-native-silica-on-the-alien-planet/.
- ↑ Young Bae (January 1, 2015). "The photonic railway" (in en). researchgate.net. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/298090729.
- ↑ "Plasma bubble could protect astronauts on Mars trip" (in en). newscientist.com. July 17, 2006. https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9567-plasma-bubble-could-protect-astronauts-on-mars-trip/.
- ↑ David Kipping (July 10, 2019). "Transiting Quasites as a Possible Technosignature" (in en). iopscience.iop.org 3 (7): p. 91. doi:10.3847/2515-5172/ab2fdb.
- ↑ Mike Wall (March 25, 2011). "Water-Powered Spaceship Could Make Mars Trip on the Cheap" (in en). Space.com. https://www.space.com/11230-water-powered-spaceship-mars-solar-system.html.
- ↑ David Kipping (August 1, 2019). "The "Terrascope": On the Possibility of Using the Earth as an Atmospheric Lens". Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 131 (1005): 114503. doi:10.1088/1538-3873/ab33c0. Bibcode: 2019PASP..131k4503K.
- ↑ Brian Wang (March 19, 2013). "Thermonuclear Micro-Bomb Propulsion for Fast Interplanetary Missions by Friedwardt Winterberg" (in en). nextbigfuture.com. https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2013/03/thermonuclear-micro-bomb-propulsion-for.html.
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