more features devoloped in 2015

• The following are excerpted from the British Telecom Technology Timeline
  
• Highest-earning celebrity is synthetic
  
• Dolls come with a personality chip and full sensory input
  
• 25 percent of TV celebrities are synthetic
  
• Expert systems surpass average human learning and logic abilities
  
• Computer agents start being thought of as colleagues instead of tools
  
• Autonomous AI sales staff units become AI stalkers
  
• First multi-celled organism assembled from scratch
  
• Self-aware machine intelligence
  
• Computer-enhanced dreaming
  
• Thought-recognition used in sleep enhancement
  
• High-speed civil transport supersonic jet, 300 passengers, 1,500 mph
  
• GPS and engine-management systems linked to limit speed automatically
  
• Paper and coins largely replaced by electronic cash
  
• Most tickets electronic
  
• Personal taxation at point of sale
  
• Automatic dialing from smart business cards
  
• Augmented-reality overlays used in stores
  
• Reverse auctions in personal shopping devices (nearby stores bid to provide items on
• shopping list)
  
• Hotel in orbit
  
• Scalable AI as major military threat
  
• Positive clean ID required for access to many places
  
• Terrorist use of genetic modification to pollute crops and damage economy
  
• Most fighters and bombers flown remotely
  
• Use of network resonance as security threat
  
• Ambient intelligence detection of minor crimes & anti-social behavior
  
• Identity theft forces all transactions to use biometrics
  
• Domestic augmented-reality used to give virtual makeovers
  
• Biometric ID required for every phone call
  
• Use of mutant insects for attack purposes
  
• Robot dance tutors
  
• Nanowalkers, nanoworms, nanofish
  
• Mechanical intelligence using MEMS and NEMS
  
• Supercomputers with speed exceeding 1 ExaFLOPS
  
• DNA computer
  
• Use of bacteria for processing and storage
  
• Desktop computer as fast as human brain
  
• Use of polymer gels for information processing
  
• Kitchen rage caused by electronic gadgets
  
• Electronic implant equivalent to Botox
  
• Use of virtual-reality scenes in household rooms as decor
  
• Replacement of people leads to anti-technology subculture
  
• Most electronic toys are hybrids, with half on internet
  
• Anti-noise technology built into homes
  
• Active wallpaper responds to inhabitants' moods, etc.
  
• Neighborhood video-surveillance networks
  
• Washing machine aware of contents and selects cycle
  
• Augmented-reality offices used in telework centers
  
• Palm-top printing puts buttons on skin
  
• Glasses-based computer displays dominate in the office
  
• Electronic responses can be automated based on conversational inference
  
• Windows with coatings to re-direct sunlight
  
• Nanotechnology toys
  
• Paper money replaced by smart media
  
• Spread of nomadic information companies leads to global taxation
  
• Academic learning is argued to be unnecessary in the age of smart machines
  
• Integrated taxation in all transactions
  
• Return-to-sender viruses, corporate counterattacks
  
• Nano devices roaming within blood vessels under own power
  
• Use of humans' own tissues to grow replacement organs
  
• Direct electronic pleasure production
  
• Context-sensitive cyber-drugs
  
• Electronic stimulation of brain sensations as recreational substitute for drugs
  
• Some implants seen as status symbols
  
• Gene-gel stimulation of re-growth of natural teeth on demand
  
• Retina regeneration using fetal retinal cell injection
  
• Emotion logging and recording
  
• Emotionally specific drugs
  
• Micro-fluidic chips used for gene sequencing in every GP surgery
  
• Self-certification for prescriptions using electronic diagnostics
  
• Outpatients at home - remote tele-medical consultations
  
• Genetic links of 90 percent of diseases identified
  
• Individual's genome part of their medical record
  
• Synthetic organs created by printing layers of cells
  
• Synthetic viruses created
  
• Sensory augmentation using sensory implants, nanoparticles, etc.
  
• Use of stem cells to treat human brain after strokes or accidents
  
• Gene therapy generates new hair cells in humans
  
• Sensory implants allow direct sensing of cyberspace entities
  
• Robotic cleaners in hospitals
  
• Biometrics and medical tests linked to benefits and disability allowance