List of hypothetical technologies
Hypothetical technologies are technologies that do not exist yet, but that could exist in the future.[1] They are distinct from emerging technologies, which have achieved some developmental success. Emerging technologies as of 2018 include 3-D metal printing and artificial embryos.[2] Many hypothetical technologies have been the subject of science fiction.
List
- Acne vaccine[3]
- Alcubierre drive
- Alderson disk
- Anti-evolutionary drug[4]
- Anti-gravity
- Antimatter rocket
- Artificial gametes[5]
- Artificial general intelligence
- Artificial gravity
- Artificial universe[6]
- Artificial uterus
- Bishop ring
- Black hole starship
- Bracewell probe
- Brain in a vat
- Brainwashing
- Brownian ratchet
- Bussard ramjet
- Caries vaccine
- Chronovisor
- Cloaking device
- Cold fusion
- Dean drive
- De-extinction
- Diamond trees
- Digital immortality
- Dipole drive[7]
- Dyson sphere
- Dyson tree
- Dyson–Harrop satellite
- Electrogravitics
- Endoneurobot[8]
- ET3 Global Alliance
- Exoskeletal engine
- Faster than light communication
- Female sperm
- Femtotechnology
- Field propulsion
- Fluorescent multilayer card
- Flying syringe
- Ford-Svaiter mirror[9]
- Fusion rocket
- Gamma-ray bomb[10]
- Gliabot[11]
- Globus Cassus
- God helmet
- Gravitational shielding
- Gravity train
- Gravity-vacuum transit
- Hair cloning
- Halo drive[12]
- HIV vaccine
- Horizon drive[13]
- Hybrid Intelligence Biometric Avatar[14]
- Inertia negation
- Inferential programming
- Infomorph
- Information panspermia
- Isotropic beacon
- Krasnikov tube
- Language-learning pill[15]
- Launch loop
- Malaria vaccine
- Matrioshka brain
- McKendree cylinder
- Mind uploading
- Molecular assembler
- Monopolium[16]
- Muon collider
- Nanochondrion
- Nanocomputer
- Nano electrokinetic thruster
- Neutronium
- Nike ONE
- Non-rocket spacelaunch
- Nuclear bullet[17]
- Nuclear salt-water rocket
- Nuclear shaped charge
- O'Neill cylinder
- Orbital ring
- Organic nuclear reactor
- Perpetual motion
- Phased-array optics
- Photonic railway[18]
- Picotechnology
- Plasmonster[19]
- Pure fusion weapon
- Eugene Podkletnov
- Quantum money
- Quantum telescope
- Quantum vacuum thruster
- Quasite[20]
- Reactionless drive
- Respirocyte
- RF resonant cavity thruster
- Robotoid
- Rocket sled launch
- Room-temperature superconductor
- Santa Claus machine
- Seascraper
- Self-replicating spacecraft
- Shellworld
- Simulated reality
- Skyhook
- Solar thermal rocket
- Soletta
- Space dock
- Space elevator
- Space fountain
- Space gun
- Space mirror
- Space tether
- Sphalerizer[21]
- Spomified asteroid
- Stanford torus
- Starlifting
- StarTram
- Statite
- Stellar engine
- Synthetic epigenetics[22]
- Superintelligence
- Synaptobot[23]
- Tachyonic antitelephone
- Tectonic weapon
- Teleforce
- Thought recording and reproduction device
- Tipler cylinder
- Topopolis
- Universal memory
- Universal snakebite antidote[24]
- Utility fog
- Vacuum airship
- Warp-field experiments
- Wearable generator
- Wet workshop
- Wetware computer
See also
- List of emerging technologies
- List of fictional aircraft
- List of fictional artificial intelligences
- List of fictional automobiles
- List of fictional cyborgs
- List of fictional doomsday devices
- List of fictional firearms
- List of fictional galactic communities
- List of fictional robots and androids
- List of fictional space stations
- List of fictional spacecraft
- List of fictional vehicles
References
- ^ Andersen, David; Dawes, Sharon (1991). Government Information Management: A Primer and Casebook. Prentice Hall. p. 125.
- ^ "You'll want to keep an eye on these 10 breakthrough technologies this year". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 2018-05-17.
- ^ Unknown (August 29, 2018). "On the horizon: An acne vaccine". sciencedaily.com. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
- ^ unknown (November 19, 2018). ""Anti-Evolution Drugs" Could Offer New Strategy against Antimicrobial Resistance Crisis". genengnews.com. Retrieved 2019-04-29.
- ^ AJ Newson (January 1, 2005). "Artificial gametes: new paths to parenthood?". jme.bmj.com. Retrieved 2019-07-13.
- ^ Zeeya Merali (June 19, 2017). "Creating a Universe in the Lab? The Idea Is No Joke". blogs.discovermagazine.com. Retrieved 2019-09-17.
- ^ Robert Zubrin (May 18, 2019). "Robert Zubrin has new propellantless space propulsion concept – Dipole Drive". nextbigfuture.com. Retrieved 2019-05-30.
- ^ Frontiers in Neurosci (March 29, 2019). "Human Brain/Cloud Interface". ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Vol. 13. p. 112. doi:10.3389/fnins.2019.00112. PMC 6450227. PMID 30983948.
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- ^ ME McCulloch (December 20, 2018). "Propellant-less Propulsion from Quantized Inertia" (PDF). tsijournals.com.
- ^ Zoe Nauman (February 16, 2018). "Humanity will abandon speech and communicate through a 'collective AI consciousness' using nothing but THOUGHTS by 2050". dailymail.co.uk.
- ^ Sara Gates (July 10, 2014). "Could We One Day Learn A Language By Popping A Pill?". huffpost.com. Retrieved 2019-05-25.
- ^ L.N. Epele (June 3, 2008). "Monopolium: the key to monopoles". The European Physical Journal C. 56 (1): 87–95. arXiv:hep-ph/0701133. Bibcode:2008EPJC...56...87E. doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-008-0628-0.
- ^ Andre Gsponer (February 2, 2008). "Fourth Generation Nuclear Weapons: Military effectiveness and collateral effects". arXiv:physics/0510071.
- ^ Young Bae (January 1, 2015). "The photonic railway". researchgate.net. Retrieved 2019-07-19.
- ^ Kristin Lewotsky (July 1, 2007). "The Promise of Plasmonics". spie.org. Retrieved 2019-09-15.
- ^ David Kipping (July 10, 2019). "Transiting Quasites as a Possible Technosignature". iopscience.iop.org. doi:10.3847/2515-5172/ab2fdb.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) - ^ Max Tegmark (August 29, 2017). "Superintelligence: a space odyssey". Ft.com. Retrieved 2019-07-09.
- ^ Tomasz P Jurkowski (March 4, 2015). "Synthetic epigenetics—towards intelligent control of epigenetic states and cell identity". Clinical Epigenetics. 7: 18. doi:10.1186/s13148-015-0044-x. PMC 4347971. PMID 25741388.
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