more features devoloped in the range of 2016-25

The following are excerpted from the British Telecom Technology Timeline

• AI technology imitating thinking processes of the brain
  
• AI teachers get better results than most human teachers
  
• AI starts being noticed as a source of redundancy
  
• Computers write most of their own software
  
• Human knowledge is exceeded by machine knowledge
  
• Electronic pets outnumber organic pets
  
• Electronic life form given basic rights
  
• Artificial insects and small animals with artificial brains
  
• AI entity becomes a Member of British Parliament
  
• Smart bacteria contains electronics and is linked to net
  
• AI brings chimpanzee or dolphin up to human-level intelligence
  
• AI entity awarded Nobel Prize
  
• Virus wipes out half of the electronic pet population
  
• Remote-control devices built into living pets
  
• AI entities given the right to vote
  
• Nanotech-based organism colonies built
  
• Synthetic bacteria is created
  
• Artificial sensors used in cosmetic upgrade surgery
  
• Smart makeup works to improve people's looks
  
• Listing of individual's DNA for $1 (10M key base pairs)
  
• More people using telework centers than home working
  
• Telework centers double as community resources
  
• Police force privatized in many nations
  
• Films where viewers can choose who acts in each role
  
• Autonomous production plants make everything
  
• Retirement age begins to be linked to a person's medical history
  
• Holodecks using room lined completely with polymer screens
  
• Thought recognition as an everyday input process
  
• Self-diagnostic, self-repairing robots
  
• War fought entirely between robot armies
  
• ID cards replaced by biometric scanning
  
• Fuel cells replace internal-combustion engines
  
• Life expectancy approaches 100