Future technology

Future technology-related topics include:

• Emerging technologies, technologies that are perceived as capable of changing the status quo
• Hypothetical technology, technology that does not exist yet, but that could exist in the future
• Futures studies (also called futurology), the study of postulating possible, probable, and preferable futures and the worldviews and myths that underlie them
• Technology forecasting, attempts to predict the future characteristics of useful technological machines, procedures or techniques