HTML5 is coming! This may well be totally meaning less to most but it's effects are going to be incredible. Companies are already flocking to put their names in the hat for it's eventual release in 2020. It's going to be huge. For a while now there have been no significant desktop-native software packages released, merely updates of the original and some (such as Photoshop and Google Office) are already web-native. HTML5 will also mean the gradual end of third party web programs like flash, all activity on your computer will be based out of the browser that's gradually becoming your window on the world. So when's all this going to happen? By 2020. Practically just around the corner!
And we're going to Mars! Yes Barrackbama said NASA are going to be popping in on the little green men for tea. Scientists are working on way to isolate bacteria in Alaska that can break down rock and turn it into soil and the 95% carbon dioxide atmosphere of Mars makes it a haven for plant life. And the combination of photosynthesis and some mild geoengineering means we'll soon have an atmosphere up and running to block out all the UV rays that bombard the red planet. So, when does this exciting time in humanities history begin? First stages may possibly be in planning by 2050!
And nanocomputers are on the way! At the moment the best one's managed to do is start a sodoku and not even touch it's coffee but soon they'll be performing instant calculation by the superpositioning nature of photons. A new age of computing that'll see the heralding of practical optics and exceptional storage power at a fraction of the energy cost. How long before this science fiction hits PC World Dagenham? By 2070!
All a long way off, the future, isn't it? So what about more immediately? What's literally just around the corner that will revolutionise our lives? Nothing. Spend less money, use less energy, be nicer to people, don't eat crap food and you might make it far enough to see the invention of the 20-way extension plug.
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