Tech Breakthroughs May Mean ‘Digital Everything’ by 2025

by  Sharon Gaudin,  Computerworld

A new Thomson Reuters report, “The World in 2025: 10 Predictions of Innovation,” examines what scientific breakthroughs are likely to have the greatest impact on society over the next 10 years.

The report predicts the world will become increasingly digital over the next decade as cars, smart homes, and appliances become digitally connected and think for themselves. “The digital world as we know it today will seem simple and rudimentary in 2025,” the reports says. “Thanks to the prevalence of improved semiconductors, graphene-carbon nanotube capacitors, cell-free networks of service antenna and 5G technology, wireless communications will dominate everything, everywhere…from the most remote farmlands to bustling cities–we will all be digitally directed.”

The report also predicts quantum teleportation will be tested in 2025. “We are on the precipice of this field’s explosion; it is truly an emerging research front,” the report says. “Early indicators point to a rapid acceleration of research leading to the testing of quantum teleportation in 2025.”

Other game-changing breakthroughs the report predicts include the end of food shortages, the dominance of solar power as an energy source, and advances in genetics that improve the prevention and treatment of many diseases.  Report