A chance to put on record for posterity, your predictive abilities on technological advances that will surprise us in 2020.

I`m thinking of how some changes seem to come out of nowhere (at least to the general public)

For excample - when I saw the first `double housebrick` mobile phone with it`s WW2 style pull out anntennae - it seemed very similar to past radio telephones and no way would I have predicted the modern, palm of the hand smartphone - with all of it`s features.

When you reflect on the hundreds and thousands of years of our species dominance on the planet - it seems grasping possibilites has been difficult - with hundreds of generations being born, living and dying , ice ages coming and going - and bones piling up in caves. Little if any changes, (with a nod to clovis points and so on) .

All the time, with a brain the same as our own. (and to be honest, who knows perhaps even better - honed by evolutionary forces that apply less, now )

As a further example. The grace and elegence of the pointed arch In medieval cathedrals. Letting light into the interior and putting stresses into the ground through flying buttresses. Well within the capabilites of for example, the Egyptions and easily demonstratable in minature but just needing the `spark` of insight and of imagination.

So, bearing in mind that this thread may (even if only in imagination) pop up out of the forum record in 2020 - what do you think the unimagined technological surprises will be at that time?

Regards

oilrag