Science Fiction Technology that is Science Fact

There are several inventions that have appeared over the centuries and decades as science fiction technology, only recently has in come science fact.

• Digital Currency (Cryptocurrency)

• Streaming Media (All Types)

• Cloud Computing

• Global Network (Internet)

  • Future: Isolated country based network (i.e. Russia, etc.)

• Smartphones and Smart Speakers 

  • Crowdsourcing (i.e. AirBnB, Uber, etc.)

  • Ubiquitous computing

• Nuclear Sciences (Power, Military, etc.)

  • Future: Fusion Power

• Space Station: International Space Station (ISS)

  • Future: Permanent Moon Bases (and Beyond)

• Self Driving Cars (Semi-Autonomous) [aka Level 3]

  • Future: Self Driving Cars (Full-Autonomous) [aka Level 5]

• Space Exploration

  • Satellites (Voyager) that left our solar system

  • Robotics Rovers

• Space Travel, to the moon

  • Future: Space Travel, Mars

• Machine Learning (Artificial Intelligence) [Infancy]

• Virtual/Augmented Reality [Infancy]

• Military Weapons

  • Rail Guns

  • Mobile Laser Platforms

  • Full-Autonomous Planes

• Quantum Computing [Infancy]

• Electric Vehicles

• Supercomputers

  • (see: https://www.top500.org/)

• Gene Editing (CRISPR)

  • Future: Advanced Gene Therapy

• Green Energy

  • Solar, Wind, etc.

  • Future: Grid Size Batteries

• Metamaterials

  • Invisibility Cloaks

• Advanced Robotics [Infancy]

  • Future: Exoskeletons

Future Challenges

• Environments (Climate Change)

  • Future: Water Level Rising

• Data Security (Hackers)

  • Disrupting Infrastructure

• Waste (Garbage, Nuclear, etc.)

• Clean Water

• Food Supply

• World Population

• Medical Epidemic

  • Past: Black Plague

Possible Future Problems (that we hope never happen)

• Solar Flares (disrupting electronics)

• Super Volcanoes

• Large Asteroid

• World War

  • Nuclear Winter

Future 

• Advanced Batteries

• Human Cloning

• Quantum teleportation

• Advance Space Engines

  • Solar Sails, Ion Thrusters, etc.

• Asteroid Mining

  • Prediction: New elements will be discovered

  • Note: These people will be the next Trillionaires

• Space Elevators

  • Note: This will make moving payloads into space cheap.

Science fiction technologies that may always be science fiction

• Matter teleportation (i.e. Star Trek Teleporters)

• Faster than light travel (i.e. Star Trek Warp Drive)

• Time Travel (i.e. H.G. Wells)

  • Note: It is believed that if you can travel faster than light, time will slow down around you