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Artificial stem cells seem like the next thing to really revolutionize medicine.

Quantum computers for brute force hacks seems doable in 100.

Eye tracking pointer devices will likely be more convenient than mice within a dozen or two years. This will probably be widely available for people who are paralyzed first.

Diamond processors are always 10 years away, but I think we can do it in 100. This would revolutionize the amount of power we can put through a chip without worrying about cooling.

Quick charge capacitor replacements for standard rechargble batteries

Low yield fusion plants. I'd like to think of them as capable of high yield, but it's much harder than initially thought. Some ideas are quite promising for low yield.

Asteroid mining. We've had the tech to get people to the asterodi for decades, just lack the will to do it.

I suspect we will see a human brain to digital interface. I don't think it will be "downloading minds" or anything, but I could see someone finding a way to plug a specialized camera or mic in to have a full functioning robotic replacement part.

I'm pretty sure they already have the beginning pieces to this, but its too specialized and expensive to do anything commercial with it yet.

Nuclear fusion seems increasingly achievable.

Suicide Machines on Street Corners.

Computer circuits based on light instead of electricity.

Ai and eeg can read brain waves generate images already kinda decent, maybe meet the robinsons memory viewer machine.

Is it cheating to say AI and humanoid robots?

Anti-aging tech, if so.

Cancer curing nanotechnology

Direct brain interfaces for, like, VR. So instead of a screen strapped to your face, your visual cortex is just stimulated so you see the game using your own "hardware." A literal Matrix type environment for your mind.

This is either gonna be cool and fun, or scary and evil. But it will exist.

I think we can make an oven with a tiny fire breathing dinosaur in it.

Portable communicators. It would be slick to have a USB c tricorder though.

Fully autonomous humanoid robots. Unfortunately with out-of-control AGI they will probably kill me.

It would have been cool to have a benign C3-PO or R2D2.

Underwater cities

FTL communication using quantum entangled particles.

https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Preparing_for_the_Future/Discovery_and_Preparation/ESA_takes_steps_toward_quantum_communications

fusion maybe, but in scifi, it often requires an alien race making first contact, we wont even get to things like anti-matter tech without that intervention. SG1 is more in our time frame, but with aliens already possessing advanced tech