More features may devoloped in 2012-2014

• The following are excerpted from the British Telecom Technology Timeline
  
• Artificial Intelligence units used as classroom assistants
  
• Toys have built-in tracking technology
  
• People have some virtual friends but don't know which ones are virtual
  
• Mood-sensitive home décor comes into use
  
• First divorce due to virtual affair with computer game character
  
• Addiction to online games seen as a major problem
  
• DNA used to assemble electronic circuits
  
• First bacterium assembled from scratch
  
• AI soccer teams as TV entertainment
  
• Chips with 10 billion transistors
  
• Electronic prescriptions reduce fraud and improve speed
  
• Quiz shows screen for implant technologies
  
• 24/7 blood-chemistry monitoring
  
• Laser-activated drug capsules
  
• Ultrasound or radio-activated medicine capsules
  
• Blood-analysis chips
  
• Supermarkets used as major source of medical alerts
  
• Remote control of insects by neural implants
  
• Emotion detection used in businesses to select front-line staff
  
• Instant electronic identification of pathogens
  
• Lifestyle monitoring and insurance linked to medical records
  
• Online surgeries dominate first-line medical care
  
• Video tattoos
  
• Cyber-drugs (electronically activated drugs)
  
• Automated pain relief for soldiers
  
• Bacteria in toothpaste to attack plaque
  
• Antibacterial coatings on domestic appliances, phones, etc., especially in hospitals
  
• Smells embedded in ordinary household objects
  
• Flexible displays used for body monitoring and alerts
  
• Emotional jewelry
  
• Hand-held scanner to detect tumors using tissue resonance interferometer
  
• Smart pill bottles remotely monitor medication taking and use alarms
  
• Hotels offer some hospital services
  
• Extensive remote-sensing use in environmental management
  
• Effective prediction of most natural disasters
  
• Chips on food packaging tell when food is at its best
  
• Most homes have wireless networks
  
• Smart paint available (contains microchips or nanomaterials)
  
• Digital bathroom mirrors
  
• Personalized response from household gadgets
  
• Mood-sensitive light fixtures/bulbs
  
• Smart, responsive home and work environments
  
• Virtual windows open new worlds
  
• 1 billion internet users in 2010
  
• Automatic video capture of personal events
  
• Electronically mediated tribes become major social structures
  
• Viewers able to pick any angle or player view while watching sports events
  
• Augmented reality at sports grounds to enhance spectator experience
  
• Frequent use of multiple Net identities causes personality disorders
  
• Cheap miniature cameras cause social backlash
  
• Personal black boxes record everyday life
  
• Ability to digitally replace or enhance people in your field of view
  
• 3D "Minority Report"-style air display for information appliances
  
• Projected augmented reality
  
• Full-voice interaction with computers
  
• Voice synthesis quality up to human standard
  
• Data loss because of format changes becomes major business problem
  
• Chips with 1 billion transistors
  
• Quantum effect interferometer for flux measurement
  
• Use of carbon fullerenes for on chip interconnect
  
• Self diagnosis using gene chips for domestic use
  
• Liquid drop lenses for camera phones, etc.
  
• Terahertz scanners
  
• Self-organizing adaptive integrated circuits
  
• Molecular sized switches
  
• Intelligent materials with built-in sensors, storage, and effectors
  
• Smart skin for intelligent clothing and direct human repair
  
• Use of bacteria to assemble small circuits
  
• Optical neuro-computers
  
• Simple quantum computer, 4 Qubits
  
• 100GB memory sticks (typical 2005 HD capacity)
  
• Ultra-simple computing - just-in-time OS
  
• Bacteria used in detection of explosives
  
• Autonomous weapons authorized to fire at own discretion
  
• Household access by facial recognition
  
• Criminal tagging augmented with video and audio sensors
  
• Extensive use of electronics to monitor police behavior
  
• Immersive VR shopping booths
  
• 60 percent of internet accesses from mobile devices
  
• Single address for emails, phone calls, etc.
  
• HDTV over broadband
  
• Assisted lane-keeping systems in trucks and buses
  
• Most new cars fitted with positioning systems as standard
  
• Pollution-monitor chips built into cars
  
• Light-emitting fabrics used in clothes
  
• Smell-emitting clothing, uses context
  
• TV-quality video screens built into clothes
  
• Jewelry that changes shape, color, and texture
  
• Portable translation device for simple conversation
  
• Shape-changing fabrics
  
• Terahertz jammers in clothes as personal modesty shield
  
• Dual appearance - you can change how you look with quick tech
  
• Laws restrict what can be shown on video clothing