Future Technology timeline
<p>Feb 01, 2011 02:06 PM
 
a lot of these predictions and timelines are worthless: hugely inaccurate.
But look at  Top 12 areas for innovation thru 2025  at the very bottom of the article:
 
general categories without great specificity but conforms to my intuition:  released in 2007.
 
Computing:  10 petaFLOPS supercomputer (human brain equivalency per Ray K)
 
current champion systems are at 2 peta FLOPS =  2 Tera FLOPS =  2 * 1015 flops.
 
 
World Pop  hits<b> 8 B  in  2026 </b>(US Census forecast)
 
World Econ growth:  note
 
2015  Brazil surpasses France, UK, Italy   (made by Lula)
2027  China GDP exceeds USA   Goldman forecast.
 
Communications:  All communic are IP-based in 2014  (by Paul Mockapetris inventor of DNS)
 
 
 
 
 
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