What Will the World Look Like in 2025? Experts Analyze Predictions
According to analysts from Thomson Reuters in New York, USA, by 2025, pilot licenses may become a new form of identification for adults, quantum teleportation may become feasible, and everything in our daily lives—from our homes to the media—will be digitized.
These insights come from a recently published report titled “The World in 2025: 10 Predictions About Innovation.” The report forecasts the future of science and technology just ten years ahead by analyzing global patent data and scientific literature.
To complete the report, researchers identified ten emerging fields of science by analyzing popular topics using Thomson Reuters’ scientific website. They also examined global patent data from the Derwent World Patents Index to find the ten fields with the highest number of patented inventions since 2012.
The fields of technology that attract the most research and commercial interest will be reassessed to identify the “hot spots” for innovations that will lead to the biggest breakthroughs in the future.
One of the predictions in the report is that solar power will become the largest energy source on Earth by 2025. According to the most frequently cited scientific research reports from the past two years, the process of harvesting and converting solar energy is becoming increasingly advanced. Ultimately, instead of being merely a potential environmental resource, solar energy will be utilized by the majority of the world’s population.
In the field of biology, mapping DNA will become a standard procedure during childbirth. Additionally, researchers predict that in ten years, teleportation experiments will become commonplace. This stems from the explosion of scientific reports surrounding the discovery of the Higgs boson, often referred to as the “God particle,” with over 400 citations in studies from 2012. This reality is seen as a sign that the scientific community will experiment with more quantum teleportation techniques.
Furthermore, everything everywhere—from the smallest personal items to the largest continents—will be digitally connected. This is the result of improved semiconductor devices, nano capacitors made from graphene-carbon supermaterials, wireless systems, and 5G technology.
In the field of healthcare, Type 1 diabetes may become preventable. Advances in molecular biotechnology will lead us to a stage where we can modify humans to identify and treat diseases. This area is currently leading in patenting genetic technologies and is considered a burgeoning frontier of scientific research.
We still have to see how many of these predictions will come true. However, the forecasts for life in 2025 are considered quite intriguing. “Our goal is to ignite discussion in the research community and the world at large by showing them what is actually happening and sometimes what is a bit unclear in the research and scientific community,” stated the research team.
Here are the 10 predictions for the world in 2025 from Thomson Reuters:
1. Reduced incidence of dementia.
2. Solar power as the largest energy source on the planet.
3. Type 1 diabetes may be preventable.
4. The end of food shortages.
5. Electric air transport will flourish.
6. Everything will be digitized.
7. Oil-based packaging will become a thing of the past.
8. Cancer treatments will have fewer harmful side effects.
9. DNA mapping at birth will become routine.
10. Quantum teleportation will be common.
