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Expected in the 2090s

Dated forecasts that name this time, as their authors stated them, then the unbuilt ideas AI models placed here.

What authors forecast for the 2090s

  • Kurzweil pictures civilization in 2099 running on about ten to the sixtieth calculations per second, vastly beyond any single human brain.

    Ray Kurzweil · 2099

    From The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, Ray Kurzweil, 2005

  • Kurzweil expects the mostly nonbiological intelligence of a merged human-machine civilization to dwarf today's by an immense factor by 2099.

    Ray Kurzweil · by 2099 · by 2099, the intelligence that will have emerged from human-machine civilization

    From The Law of Accelerating Returns, Ray Kurzweil, 2001

Ideas from Technovelgy: Science Fiction Timeline of Inventions (Bill Christensen) (archived copy), as compiled in Not Boring: Sci-Fi Idea Bank (Packy McCormick); names, works, authors and years are theirs and every description is this site's rewording. Categories, arrival decades and profit are judged by AI models, not people. Method