technology predictions for 2025 | Future timeline
Read technology predictions for 2025, a year that will see the world transform thanks to disruptions in technology that will impact a wide range of sectors—and we explore some of them below. It’s your future, discover what you’re in for.
Quantumrun Foresight prepared this list; A futurist consulting firm that uses strategic foresight to help companies thrive from future trends. This is just one of many possible futures society may experience.
technology forecasts for 2025
- Global cybercrimes cost USD $10.5 trillion in damages. Likelihood: 80 percent.1
- Hydrogen airships make a comeback with new prototypes. Likelihood: 50 percent.1
- Meta releases its third-generation smart AR glasses. Likelihood: 70 percent.1
- VinFast becomes the world's first automaker to commercialize XFC (Extreme Fast Charge) electric batteries. Likelihood: 65 percent.1
- The world's first artificial shooting star display happens. Likelihood: 60 percent.1
- Growth in traditional tech spending is driven by just four platforms: cloud, mobile, social, and big data/analytics. Likelihood: 80 percent1
- New technologies such as robotics, artificial intelligence, and augmented and virtual realities represent over 25 percent of global Information and Communications Technology spending. Likelihood: 80 percent1
- Automated construction crews meant to replace human workers begin trails in locations worldwide 1
- Global number of Internet connected devices reaches 767600000001
- Abu Dhabi "Masdar City" is fully built1
- Dubai's "Dubailand" is fully built1
- China builds a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier by this year. Likelihood: 70%1
- Drone usage in agriculture is adopted globally 1
- Electronic devices can be charged using Wi-Fi 1
- Smart kitchens that turn cooking into an interactive experience enter the marketplace 1
- Brain-reading devices allows wearers to learn new skills quicker 1
- Drone usage in agriculture is adopted globally. 1
- Electronic devices can be charged using Wi-Fi. 1
- Smart kitchens that turn cooking into an interactive experience enter the marketplace. 1
- Brain-reading devices allows wearers to learn new skills quicker. 1
- 30 percent of corporate audits will be performed by artificial intelligence. 1
- China launches Enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry (eXTP), a $440-million X-ray telescope led by the China National Space Administration this year. Likelihood: 75%1
Forecast
In 2025, a number of technology breakthroughs and trends will become available to the public, for example:
- China achieves its aim of producing 40 percent of the semiconductors it uses in its manufactured electronics by 2020 and 70 percent by 2025. Likelihood: 80% 1
- Since 2020, Africa’s largest data science academy, Explore Data Science Academy (EDSA), has trained 5,000 data scientists for jobs in South Africa. Likelihood: 80% 1
- Deutsche Telekom offers 5G coverage to 99% of Germany’s population and 90% of the country's geographic territory Likelihood: 70% 1
- Germany invests €3 billion euros in artificial intelligence research this year to help close the knowledge gap against countries competing in the field. Likelihood: 80% 1
- Between 2022 to 2026, the worldwide shift from smartphones to wearable augmented reality (AR) glasses will begin and will accelerate as the 5G rollout is completed. These next-generation AR devices will offer users context-rich information about their environment in real-time. (Likelihood 90%) 1
- Brain-reading devices allows wearers to learn new skills quicker 1
- Smart kitchens that turn cooking into an interactive experience enter the marketplace 1
- Electronic devices can be charged using Wi-Fi 1
- Drone usage in agriculture is adopted globally 1
- Automated construction crews meant to replace human workers begin trails in locations worldwide 1
- Cost of solar panels, per watt, equals 0.8 US dollars 1
- Dubai's "Dubailand" is fully built 1
- Abu Dhabi "Masdar City" is fully built 1
- Share of global car sales taken by autonomous vehicles equals 10 per cent 1
- World sales of electric vehicles reaches 9,866,667 1
- Average number of connected devices, per person, is 9.5 1
- Global number of Internet connected devices reaches 76,760,000,000 1
- Predicted global mobile web traffic equals 104 exabytes 1
- Global Internet traffic grows to 398 exabytes 1
Prediction
Technology related predictions due to make an impact in 2025 include:
- How the first Artificial General Intelligence will change society: Future of artificial intelligence P2
- Artificial Intelligence is tomorrow’s electricity: Future of artificial intelligence P1
- Why are countries competing to build the biggest supercomputers? Future of Computers P6
- Cloud computing becomes decentralized: Future of Computers P5
- Future of software development: Future of computers P2
- Say goodbye to your mouse and keyboard, new user interfaces to redefine humanity: Future of computers P1
- Housing prices crash as 3D printing and maglevs revolutionize construction: Future of Cities P3
- Your addictive, magical, augmented life: Future of the Internet P6
- Your future inside the Internet of Things: Future of the Internet P4
- Rise of the big data-powered virtual assistants: Future of the Internet P3
- Gestures, holograms, and matrix-style mind uploading
- The digital storage revolution: Future of Computers P3
- A fading Moore’s Law to spark fundamental rethink of microchips: Future of Computers P4
- The big business future behind self-driving cars: Future of Transportation P2
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