My revised Future world timeline

[Maximum7]

I revised
my future world that will happen after the Information Age. Here it is.

Era 1: Post-Information Age (2020-2040)
-the immediate future. 20 or 30 years or so
Era 2: The Fusion Age (2045-2055)
-the advent of fusion power eliminates the need for fossil fuels and ushers in an age of unlimited energy
Era 3: Nano age (2055-2070)
-Nanotechnology truly takes off and permeates every aspect of life
Era 4: Interplanetary Age (2070- 2150)
Humanity explores the solar system and establishes bases on the moon and Mars
Era 5: Interstellar Age (2150-2180)
-The invention of Faster than light travel allows humanity to explore the galaxy
Era 6: Intergalactic Age (2180-3000)
-Humans learn to transverse the intergalactic void and explore the universe
Era 7: The Energy Age (3000+)
-Humans learn to convert themselves to pure energy. Humans begin to live in their own designer universes

This is my outline of the future. What 5 inventions/technologies/developments/discoveries can you think of for each era?

 

[Ferocitus]

QUOTE="Maximum7, post: 14738144, member: 301353"]
Era 1: Post-Information Age (2020-2040)
-the immediate future. 20 or 30 years or so
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Doesn't really mean much, as it stands.

Era 2: The Fusion Age (2045-2055)
-the advent of fusion power eliminates the need for fossil fuels and ushers in an age of unlimited energy

Unfortunately, there isn't a way to prevent embrittlement of the essential
containment structures without rare exotic elements like hafnium, beryllium,
zirconium, and niobium.

For the forseeable future, hundreds of other industries will continue to use the
extremely limited quantities of those elements.

Anyone proposing to build a commercial fusion reactor will have to show that
they have the required quantities of those elements for the lifetime of the
reactor. Once they've been irradiated they're gone.

In any case, a ridiculous number of fusion reactors is required to to meet the
entire world's energy demand. Reactor lifespans are so short that renewables
will remain the best option for a very long time.

Era 3: Nano age (2055-2070)
-Nanotechnology truly takes off and permeates every aspect of life

Too pessimistic. I'd say it will hit by 2027.
The ability to design and manufacture molecules and materials with very
specific properties is not far off.

Nano-car racing!
http://nanocar-race.cnrs.fr/indexEnglishLive.php

Era 4: Interplanetary Age (2070- 2150)
Humanity explores the solar system and establishes bases on the moon and Mars

Bases on the moon might be viable by then, but fragile bags of water are not
the best option to inhabit them. Robots will remain the best option for
exploring and exploiting the Moon, asteroids, and planets for a very long time.

Martian colonization by humans is another hilarious "Muskovite" delusion.
There will be no new Oregon Trail where Earthings set off for a better future,
confident that they will be able to survive using only pluck and their love of
freedom.

Era 5: Interstellar Age (2150-2180)
-The invention of Faster than light travel allows humanity to explore the galaxy

FTL never happens.
First craft large enough to have humans aboard attains 0.1c, hits a piece of
dust and disintegrates.
(See Era 7, below: Humans learn to convert themselves to pure energy.)

Era 6: Intergalactic Age (2180-3000)
-Humans learn to transverse the intergalactic void and explore the universe

Hahahaha. Calculate the energy required to get to galactic escape velocity.

Era 7: The Energy Age (3000+)
-Humans learn to convert themselves to pure energy. Humans begin to live in their own designer universes

Currently available.
Fast way: cremation. Slow way: rot in the ground and feed the worms.
FTL way: see Era 5, above.
Inevitable way: cosmic time scale.

My guesses...
Use of cybernetic and other body augmentations will continue to increase.

Some interesting "things" will crawl out of Craig Venter's labs.

Glow in the dark bunnies will escape from a lab, breed, and reach plague proportions
in Australia.

 

[uppi]

Unfortunately, there isn't a way to prevent embrittlement of the essential
containment structures without rare exotic elements like hafnium, beryllium,
zirconium, and niobium.

This statement is not entirely true (although I agree with the general argument). The D--He-3 Fusion process does not produce neutrons and would not embrittle the containment structures. This process is, however, 10 times harder to achieve than D--T fusion and you would need He-3, which is also not an abundant isotope.

 

[Ferocitus]

This statement is not entirely true (although I agree with the general argument). The D--He-3 Fusion process does not produce neutrons and would not embrittle the containment structures. This process is, however, 10 times harder to achieve than D--T fusion and you would need He-3, which is also not an abundant isotope.

Thanks.
That scarcity is why there has been some talk of trying to get He-3 from the Moon.
Given that nobody has demonstrated a viable fusion reactor yet, or (AFAIK) a stable
tokamak , or proved that the Moon has an abundance of He-3 that can be mined
economically, or established an off-Earth base, the probability of all that happening
by the middle of this century is zero.