The life-changing tech we’ll use in 2050 is already being developed right now

It has often been said that the world doesn’t move at the speed of light, but at the speed of technology.

We live in a golden age of innovation, with new gadgets, gear and gizmos popping up in the market almost every day. And the further we go into the future, the more advanced we’ll become.

It can be amazing to consider how far tech will take us in the next few decades. What will the world look like by 2050? The reality is that a lot of the innovative devices that will dominate society during the first half of the 21st Century are already creeping into our lives right now.

The technological changes we’ll witness in these 50 years will be nothing short of extraordinary. Rarely, though, do we stop and think about how so many of these advancements actually already exist right now.

The future certainly looks bright, filled with everything from AI that helps us accomplish even the smallest daily chores and the self-driving cars that can take us wherever we need to go, to the commercialization of space travel and climate control machinery that will change the way we experience the world.

Explore the technological changes of these 50 years in the infographic below to discover the major impact that all this scientific progress will have on us, read our predictions for the future and learn how many of these devices are already creeping into our lives in the present.