How technology will change humanity by 2020

Top futurist, Ray Kurzweil, predicts how technology will change humanity by 2020: "Specifically what can we expect? Solar power on steroids, longer lives, the chance to get rid of obesity once and for all, and portable computing devices that start becoming part of your body rather than being held in your hand." Here are the main points:

• Memory devices in our clothing
• Images beamed into the retina instead of on a screen
• Ubiquitous virtual reality
• Integration of information on the Internet with our memories
• Fuels manufactured with nanotechnology
• Cheap and efficient solar energy
• Ubiquitous genetic engineering

 

Will this make all of us like gods or only a few? Will this create an even starker digital divide?