The Expected World

Technology

Computing, communications, transportation, energy, manufacturing, automation, artificial intelligence, consumer devices.

7 entries

2000Photographs will be telegraphed from any distance. If there be a battle in China a hundred…Jr., 1900expired

2035When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, wh…Tesla, 1935closing

1980Consider a future device for individual use, which is a sort of mechanized private file an…Bush, 1945expired

1975It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy…Strauss, 1954expired

2000The change from atoms to bits is irrevocable and unstoppable. Computing is not about compu…Negroponte, 1995expired

1975The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of …Moore, 1965expired

2025The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whateve…Lovelace, 1843expired