It may be that we have finally reached the ever expected end of history and nothing new can be invented. I mean the technologists have been so desperate lately they have put CPUs into running shoes. CPUs in toasters next? Running Windows 10.1? Hurry up Apple with the next craze! I suggest iHulahoop. It’s gotta have beat and be easy to dance to. Just a ideer...
I was hearing this in the 1970s, and every decade since! Still plenty more to come. Remember the movie "Back to the Future II"? I'm still waiting for self-adjusting clothing. Korean and Japanese companies are testing flexible screen materials, as well as flexible electronics that can be integrated into your skin. As seen in futuristic movies as "Total Recall (2012)" we'll soon have cellphones integrated into your hand. Newer electronics will have smaller power demands so these devices will be feasible soon. I'd love to wear electronic eyeglasses with a binocular zoom feature and recording capability. How about a sheet of stickers where you tear one off and place it on your fingernail, and it has sensors for temperature (body and external air) and compass direction?
I fear that many of these future gadgets will not be mass marketed as in the past. Other than that, the future will be great for those who can afford to buy.
“It may be that we have finally reached the ever expected end of history and nothing new can be invented.”
LOL! We don’t even have reasonable robots yet, or flying cars.
Both will come, especially if LENR pans out. If it doesn’t, there will be a breakthrough in battery technology at some point.
There will also be practical (nuclear powered) spaceflight, which will open up at least the entire Solar System to human colonization. With effectively unlimited energy, there will be no need to be a certain distance from the Sun anymore. Rotating habitats will provide sufficient apparent gravity for good health.
CPUs still have at least 10x more performance ahead, there will be a move off of silicon to use carbon nanotubes or something similar. Parallelism will also be exploited more fully.
Then there are the myriad inventions we can’t even anticipate right now...