With the end of the year and decade just ahead of us, lots of people are looking back and compiling their top ten lists (for example, here [3], here [4], here [5], here [6], and here [7]). Andrew Maynard (a NISE Net advisor and Chief Science Advisor [8] on the Wilson Center's [9] Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies [10]), however, is looking forward.
He recently posted his predictions [11] of ten emerging technology trends worth watching in the next ten years on his blog, 2020 Science [12]. Manipulation of matter at the nanoscale is key to a number of the predictions, and it's an interesting read.
Once you've read Maynard's predictions, check out the NISE Net's Flying Cars [13] program all about predictions of future technology.
Anders Liljeholm in his program on predicting future technologies, Flying Cars
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another prediction link! [15]
And one more from the Montreal Gazette: 10 major innovations to look for in the coming decade [16]
More prediction links [19]
While I was putting together the January newsletter, I found some more prediction-related links:
Top scientists share their future predictions [20] from the UK Times online.
[21]Decades of future science from the MSNBC Cosmic Log blog.
and Technology Predictions Are Mostly Bunk [22] from the Wall Street Journal opinion page.