In this weeks regular segment Ross of ABC Wide Bay radio and I chatted about a recent report from Thompson Reuters on the technology that we are most likely to see in 2025.

Its sources are patents and current buzzing scientific journal literature and although this is a good start for what may be ahead, I questioned whether we would see many of them.

Their top 10 for 2025 included:

1. Dementia Declines
2. Solar Power Everywhere
3. Type 1 Diabetes Prevention
4. No more food shortage
5. Simple Electric Flight
6. Digitally connected
7. No more plastic garbage
8. More precise drugs
9. DNA mapping normalised
10. Teleportation tested

Although many of the above are very likely to occur including digital connection, no more plastic bags, DNA mapping, many others are less likely to be in wide or any use at all.

This is not because we can’t, but because we won’t. It will be either too expensive, the infrastructure to make it plausible will not yet be ready, or 2025 is just too early.

This list includes: no more food shortages – which I argue we could solve now id we just played nicer together; solar power everything – I’d love this to come true, but we have a current grid system based on non renewable fuels that represents 94% of all of our fuel usage that will not dismantle itself and be replaced within a decade and no list would be complete without teleportation – which even with the greatest of optimism I can’t see us beaming Scotty up anywhere near 2025.

I’d also bet that the true breakthrough technology of 2025 hasn’t even been heard of yet, nor maybe even thought of.

Have a listen now and then share what technology you think will dominate in 2025.