One likely innovation in the coming years is instant translation.
The ability to speak into your phone and have your words instantly translated to
the language of the person at the other end.
In the field of nanotechnology,
it is possible we will see the use of microscopic particles to deliver
chemotherapy directly to cancerous cells in the body.
Rather than carpet bombing the healthy cells around them,
straining the health of a cancer patient.
Also in nanotechnology,
we may see computer chips be replaced with a sort of gel containing nanoparticles.
This would allow for
even the most complex super computers to be no bigger than a tennis ball.
What this will mean is even household computers
will have a lot of more calculating power.
It may also be used for running programs for robots,
designed to do highly complex manual task and also permit for highly mobile AI.
Speaking of artificial intelligence, it is possible in the next 50 to a 100 years,
we shall see AI taking over more and
more areas of the labor market previously handled by humans.
You could see AI pushing shopping carts back into position at the grocery store,
or even the carts pushing themselves.
Machines engaged in building construction and even filling basic health care and
nursing positions in hospitals.
More alarmingly, numerous military chiefs have predicted that combat roles will
increasingly be performed by on the ground automated forces and,
of course, unmanned aircraft.
In the field of transport,
more electric charging stations on intercity highways may mark a final shift
from the combustion engine to the electric one, even for long distance shipping.
Also possible by the end of the century is for
self-driving cars to become more common, if not the majority mode of transport, and
affordable for the average person.
Self-driving cars, properly programmed, could safely close the gaps between cars
on the road that humans have to leave for their own safety.
Improving traffic congestion and using more than the estimated 5 to 10% of
the space on the road we humans currently use at any given time.