TILAM's challenge is a difficult one for me, probably for you too oh gentle readers. It is difficult to speculate about specific inventions that have yet to be thought out and made, it's a bit easier to think of things that will be improved significantly. And if you scout out for "new inventions" on the web for ideas, you find millions upon millions of links and such, which is totally useless to me, I don't have time to search for all that nonsense.
So, to take the coward's way out, I will not list 10 specific inventions, but list 10 areas where I think life changing and significant improvements will be made in the next 100 years (hell, probably 50 years, maybe even 25)...
Personal Communication - we are already having streaming video, texting, etc being lumped into a personal device. I'm thinking that the personal mobile phone, internet, email, etc will be combined into a single micro unit contained in, say, a pair of sunglasses. We already see this with mp3 players (Oakley), I expect the gizmo's added to the glasses to expand.
Personal Transportation - hover cars, "in air" highways where we drive these hover cars in vertical lanes not horizontal, no more traffic jams, WOO!.
Long Distance Travel - forget human transporters (disassemble here and assemble there), I don't think that is going to happen. But high speed travel, either via tubes or something else, will be revolutionary. I'm talking inTER-continental and inTRA-continental.
Casual Space Travel - Vacation Destinations above the stratosphere will be offered for a small fee to those beautiful people who can afford them.
Medicinal Cures - Cancer, Leukemia, even the common cold will be come passe, the only thing stopping us from living long enough to annoy the hell outta our kids will be that great equalizer, old age - or getting hit by a bus.
Genetics - we'll be able to "manufacture" solid and healthy gene strands, using this to fix problems that might occur in people while they are in cell form - and to take it even further, transplants (or curing, like the earlier item) will become a matter of manipulating genetic material in order to manufacture or fix unhealthy or broken organs.
Energy - at some point OPEC will go broke, due to our final decision to become completely independent from fossil fuels - and screw those bastards anyway. Solar, Wind, not sure which one, but Energy use will become cheap and easy. Perhaps recycling waste?
Bionics - no, not the $6million dollar man, but prosthetic/artificial limbs (and from one inventor, chips to enhance brain capabilities) will have significant improvements.
ID Improvements - I really don't see this as a "omg big brother is watching you", but personal identification chips/codes/implants of some sort. I see the upside of this, not the downside. Monitoring criminals, checking in at the local airport, voting, anything that requires an ID will be improved. Consumer Purchasing via scanners tied to your personal identification device; linked to the banking system, no more need for credit cards or debit cards or atm cards - BAM, instant ID and cash/goods.
Leisure Activities - virtual reality chambers will present a variety of activities from playing in a rock band in concert to role playing games to sports to, well, probably sex. The personal leisure device will offer anything and everything to the paying customer - we'll never have to leave the house!
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