With things like this, they'll be able to print materials that don't exist, and with properties that are astoundingly weird.Д¬omputing power is going to keep increasing several iterations of Moore's Law past where everyone expects it to stop. I think that 3D printers are going to be a lot closer to replicators or 'magic' nanotech. In related news, electricity demand turns out to have been direly underestimated by all planners public or private and the construction projects to fix this shortfall tend to operate in round the clock shifts. Nobody is selling new petrol powered cars anymore, and with the infrastructure supporting them disappearing rapidly, selling one in the second hand market is quite difficult.ДЄirbus is rolling an out an all-electric prop driven plane - and it is selling as fast as they can build it. Amusingly enough, the same treatment turns out to significantly boost effective intelligence - superior bloodsugar regulation means people are on their best game a much greater percentage of the day.ДЄ heck of a lot of money is spent on mitigating the effects of climate change. The world is older, but not visibly grayer to nearly the extent you would expect - most people are using a cocktail of drugs, hormones, and supplements to maintain vigor and health sufficiently potent that guessing if someone is fifty or thirty at a glance is a mugs game. ' projections, not Book of Revelations schadenfreude.)ДЇinance gets regulated into oblivion, after enabling the 'masters of the universe' is proven to be much too politically destabilizing. What are your expectations for the world of 2030? (Singularities and catastrophic collapse of civilization scenarios excluded: I want 'if this goes on. Just as 'Halting State' was basically at the 'stick a fork in it, it's done' stage when Google announced project glass, I think we're creeping up on the finishing line for 'Rule 34'.ДЄnd in about a month I'll be getting down to work on 'The Lambda Functionary', the third book in the trilogy, set circa 2030, in a world where the second and third generation descendants of ATHENA are in widespread use, the global population is ageing and greying (in particular, in Europe, where by 2030 the median age is projected to be 45.4). So far I haven't heard about any venture capital partnerships throwing the rule book out of the window and getting into organized crime business process re-engineering, but I may have been thinking too small. I'm pretty sure some of the British police forces are proactively engaging in internet monitoring already here in Edinburgh they're already running anti-cyber-bullying campaigns in schools.

Bruce is always a decade ahead of the rest of the SF field.) (Or 1998's 'Holy Fire' by Bruce Sterling, for a look a little further down the line. The 'chemputer' that could print out any drug.

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