List of hypothetical technologies

Short description: Technology that could exist in the future

Hypothetical technologies are technologies that do not exist yet, but that could exist in the future.[1] They are distinct from emerging technologies, which have achieved some developmental success. Emerging technologies as of 2018 include 3-D metal printing and artificial embryos.[2] Many hypothetical technologies have been the subject of science fiction.

The criteria for this list are that the technology:

1. Must not exist yet
2. If the technology does not have an existing article (i.e. it is "redlinked"), a reference must be provided for it

## Contents

* 1 Biology
* 2 Engineering and manufacturing
* 2.1 Computing and robotics
* 2.2 Megastructures
* 2.3 Nanotechnology
* 2.4 Transport
* 3 Minds and psychology
* 4 Physics
* 4.1 Space
* 5 See also
* 6 References

## Biology

* Acne vaccine[3]
* Anti-evolutionary drug[4]
* Antiprion drug
* Artificial gametes[5]
* Artificial gill
* Artificial "super" mitochondria[6]
* Caries vaccine
* De-extinction
* Dyson tree
* Ethnic bioweapon
* Female sperm
* Flying syringe
* Hair cloning
* HIV vaccine
* Humanzee
* Life extension
* Liquid breathing
* Male egg
* Nanochondrion
* Nootropic
* Prime editing
* Respirocyte
* Synthetic epigenetics[7]
* Universal flu vaccine
* Universal snakebite antidote[8]

## Engineering and manufacturing

* Biogel refrigerator[9]
* Chitin-cellulose composite[10]
* Diamond trees
* Exoskeletal engine
* Mezoelectronics[11]
* Microfactory
* Piezer[12]
* Tectonic weapon
* Vertical zoo[13]
* Wearable generator

### Computing and robotics

* Dentifrobot[14]
* Hypercomputer
* Inferential programming
* Plant-based digital data storage
* Quantum memory
* Quantum money
* Robotoid
* Roll-away computer
* S-money[15]
* Universal memory

### Megastructures

* Cloud Nine (tensegrity sphere)
* Globus Cassus
* Seascraper
* Shellworld
* Vertical city[16]

### Nanotechnology

* Bush robot
* Claytronics
* Grey goo
* Mechanosynthesis
* Molecular assembler
* Nanocomputer
* Nanomatrix skyscraper[17]
* Programmable matter
* Santa Claus machine
* Utility fog
* Wet nanotechnology
* Zettascale computing[18]

### Transport

* Bering Strait crossing
* ET3 Global Alliance
* Flying submarine
* Gravity train
* Gravity-vacuum transit
* Transatlantic tunnel
* Vacuum airship
* Water-fueled car

## Minds and psychology

* Artificial general intelligence
* Brain in a vat
* Brainwashing
* Cortical modem
* Digital immortality
* Endoneurobot[19]
* Gliabot[19]
* Global brain
* Infomorph
* Intelligence amplification
* Language-learning pill[20]
* Matrioshka brain
* Memory editing[21]
* Mind uploading
* Moral enhancement
* Omega Point
* Simulated reality
* Sphalerizer[22]
* Superintelligence
* Synaptobot[19]
* Technological singularity
* Thought recording and reproduction device
* Universal translator

## Physics

* Anti-gravity
* Antimatter weapon
* Artificial gravity
* Brownian ratchet
* Cloaking device
* Cold fusion
* Coleopter
* Computronium
* Electrogravitics
* Faster than light communication
* Femtotechnology
* Fusion torch
* Gamma-ray bomb[23]
* Gravitational shielding
* Hafnium bomb
* Inertia negation
* Monopolium[24]
* Muon collider
* Neutronium
* Nuclear bullet[25]
* Nuclear clock
* Nuclear lightbulb
* Nuclear shaped charge
* Organic nuclear reactor
* Perpetual motion
* Phased-array optics
* Picotechnology
* Plasmonster[26]
* Project Excalibur
* Pure fusion weapon
* Room-temperature superconductor
* Space-time cloak[27]
* Tachyonic antitelephone
* Teleforce
* Teleporter
* Time machine
* Tipler cylinder
* Torsion field (pseudoscience)
* Tractor beam
* Wet workshop

### Space

* Alderson disk
* Alcubierre drive
* Antimatter rocket
* Artificial universe[28]
* Asteroid laser ablation
* Beam powered propulsion
* Bernal sphere
* Bias drive[29]
* Bishop ring
* Black hole starship
* Bracewell probe
* Bussard ramjet
* Dean drive
* Diametric drive[29]
* Dipole drive[30]
* Disjunction drive[29]
* Dyson sphere
* Dyson–Harrop satellite
* Enzmann starship
* Field propulsion
* Fission sail
* Ford-Svaiter mirror[31]
* Fusion rocket
* Gravity tractor
* Halo drive[32]
* Information panspermia
* Isotropic beacon
* Krasnikov tube
* Laser broom
* Laser propulsion
* Launch loop
* Lightcraft
* Lunarcrete
* Lunar space elevator
* MagBeam
* Magnetic sail
* McKendree cylinder
* Momentum exchange tether
* Nano electrokinetic thruster
* Nanoship[33]
* Non-rocket spacelaunch
* Nuclear pulse propulsion
* Nuclear salt-water rocket
* O'Neill cylinder
* Orbital ring
* Ouroboros habitat[34]
* Photon rocket
* Photonic railway[35]
* Pitch drive[29]
* Plasma bubble[36]
* Quantum telescope
* Quantum vacuum thruster
* Quasite[37]
* Ringworld
* Reactionless drive
* RF resonant cavity thruster
* Rocket sled launch
* Rotating wheel space station
* Self-replicating spacecraft
* Skyhook
* Solar thermal rocket
* Soletta
* Space coach[38]
* Space dock
* Space elevator
* Space fountain
* Space gun
* Space mirror
* Space tether
* Space tug
* Spomified asteroid
* Stanford torus
* Starlifting
* Starseed launcher
* StarTram
* Statite
* Stellar engine
* Sun scoop
* Terrascope[39]
* Thermonuclear micro-bomb engine[40]
* Topopolis

## See also

* List of emerging technologies
* List of existing technologies predicted in science fiction
* List of fictional aircraft
* List of fictional artificial intelligences
* List of fictional cars
* List of fictional cyborgs
* List of fictional doomsday devices
* List of fictional galactic communities
* List of fictional robots and androids
* List of fictional gynoids
* List of fictional space stations
* List of fictional spacecraft
* List of fictional vehicles

## References

1. ↑ Andersen, David; Dawes, Sharon (1991). Government Information Management: A Primer and Casebook. Prentice Hall. pp. 125.
2. ↑ "You'll want to keep an eye on these 10 breakthrough technologies this year" (in en). MIT Technology Review. https://www.technologyreview.com/lists/technologies/2018/.
3. ↑ Unknown (August 29, 2018). "On the horizon: An acne vaccine" (in en). sciencedaily.com. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180829115522.htm.
4. ↑ unknown (November 19, 2018). ""Anti-Evolution Drugs" Could Offer New Strategy against Antimicrobial Resistance Crisis" (in en). genengnews.com. https://www.genengnews.com/news/anti-evolution-drugs-could-offer-new-strategy-against-antimicrobial-resistance-crisis/.
5. ↑ AJ Newson (January 1, 2005). "Artificial gametes: new paths to parenthood?" (in en). jme.bmj.com. https://jme.bmj.com/content/31/3/184.
6. ↑ Andrés Caicedo (July 2, 2017). "Artificial Mitochondria Transfer: Current Challenges, Advances, and Future Applications" (in en). hindawi.com. https://www.hindawi.com/journals/sci/2017/7610414/.
7. ↑ Tomasz P Jurkowski (March 4, 2015). "Synthetic epigenetics—towards intelligent control of epigenetic states and cell identity" (in en). Clinical Epigenetics 7 (1): 18. doi:10.1186/s13148-015-0044-x. PMID 25741388.
8. ↑ Unknown (May 28, 2014). "Universal antidote for snakebite: Experimental trial represents promising step toward" (in en). sciencedaily.com. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/05/140528105256.htm.
9. ↑ Yuriy Dmitriev (December 7, 2015). "Zero-energy Bio Refrigerator cools your food with future gel" (in en). inhabitat.com. https://inhabitat.com/zero-energy-bio-refrigerator-cools-your-food-with-future-gel/.
10. ↑ Natalie Parletta (July 26, 2018). "Can crab shells and trees replace plastics?" (in en). cosmosmagazine. https://cosmosmagazine.com/biology/can-crab-shells-and-trees-replace-plastics.
11. ↑ Ryszard Romaniuk (June 1, 2010). "Electronics and telecommunications in Poland, issues and perspectives Part II: Science, Research, Development, Higher Education" (in en). researchgate.net. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/234054011.
12. ↑ Bill Christensen (August 19, 2005). "Homeland Security Orders Modern Version of Jules Verne's Leyden Ball" (in en). livescience.com. https://www.livescience.com/395-homeland-security-orders-modern-version-jules-verne-leyden-ball.html.
13. ↑ BuBa Arquitectos (February 15, 2015). "The Vertical Zoo: A wild greenery-wrapped tower that provides refuge for animalia" (in en). inhabitat.com. https://inhabitat.com/the-vertical-zoo-a-wild-greenery-wrapped-tower-that-provides-refuge-for-animalia/.
14. ↑ Neetha J. Shetty (January 17, 2013). "Nanorobots: Future in dentistry" (in en). ncbi.nlm.nih.go 25 (2): pp. 49–52. doi:10.1016/j.sdentj.2012.12.002. PMID 23960556.
15. ↑ Cambridge University (May 7, 2019). "S-money: Ultra-secure form of virtual money proposed" (in en). phys.org. https://phys.org/news/2019-05-s-money-ultra-secure-virtual-money.html.
16. ↑ Kayla Matthews (December 2, 2018). "Vertical Cities: Can Mega-Skyscrapers Solve Urban Population Overload?" (in en). planetizen.com. https://www.planetizen.com/blogs/101788-vertical-cities-can-mega-skyscrapers-solve-urban-population-overload.
17. ↑ Shahar Polachek (September 22, 2017). "Nanomatrix Skyscraper" (in en). evolo.us. http://www.evolo.us/nanomatrix-skyscraper/.
18. ↑ Tiffany Trader (December 6, 2018). "Zettascale by 2035? China Thinks So" (in en). hpcwire.com. https://www.hpcwire.com/2018/12/06/zettascale-by-2035/.
19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 Frontiers in Neurosci (March 29, 2019). "Human Brain/Cloud Interface" (in en). ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 13: pp. 112. doi:10.3389/fnins.2019.00112. PMID 30983948.
20. ↑ Sara Gates (July 10, 2014). "Could We One Day Learn A Language By Popping A Pill?" (in en). huffpost.com. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/learn-language-pill-drugs-video_n_5574748?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAALZnwyNzhdopLHPOfQl3NFAZCvQsNmgtgbNQu-90jO0cb5zAFVETVjW3AZ04KX0gI974naXjA1N8AZkrE3RXwzFyr801T9te20kGmKb2vLclKIS--m_6s0CIGB88n--0rDfpX6dssrRqWvykQnNlqbFM0kIpLGsS62wEKUX1WzZp.
21. ↑ Rachel Riederer (February 20, 2017). "Memory Editing Technology Will Give Us Perfect Recall and Let Us Alter Memories at Will" (in en). vice.com. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5355ed/memory-editing-technology-will-give-us-perfect-recall-and-let-us-alter-memories-at-will-v24n1.
22. ↑ Max Tegmark (August 29, 2017). "Superintelligence: a space odyssey" (in en). Financial Times. https://www.ft.com/content/31176c28-8bea-11e7-9084-d0c17942ba93. Retrieved 2019-07-09.
23. ↑ David Adam (August 14, 2003). "US military pioneers death ray bomb" (in en). The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/aug/14/usa.davidadam.
24. ↑ L.N. Epele (June 3, 2008). "Monopolium: the key to monopoles" (in en). The European Physical Journal C 56 (1): 87–95. doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-008-0628-0. Bibcode: 2008EPJC...56...87E.
25. ↑ Andre Gsponer (February 2, 2008). "Fourth Generation Nuclear Weapons: Military effectiveness and collateral effects". arXiv:physics/0510071.
26. ↑ Kristin Lewotsky (July 1, 2007). "The Promise of Plasmonics" (in en). spie.org. http://www.spie.org/news/spie-professional-magazine/2007-july/the-promise-of-plasmonics?SSO=1.
27. ↑ Clay Dillow (November 16, 2010). "Metamaterial 'Space-Time Cloak' Conceals Not Just Objects, But Entire Events" (in en). Popsci.com. https://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-11/metamaterial-space-time-cloak-doesnt-just-conceal-objects-entire-events/.
28. ↑ Zeeya Merali (June 19, 2017). "Creating a Universe in the Lab? The Idea Is No Joke" (in en). blogs.discovermagazine.com. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2017/06/19/build-a-universe-in-the-lab/.
29. ↑ 29.0 29.1 29.2 29.3 Marc G. Millis (July 16, 1996). "The Challenge To Create The Space Drive" (in en). ntrs.nasa.gov. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19990023236.pdf.
30. ↑ Robert Zubrin (May 18, 2019). "Robert Zubrin has new propellantless space propulsion concept – Dipole Drive" (in en). nextbigfuture.com. https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2018/05/robert-zubrin-has-new-propellentless-space-propulsion-concept-dipole-drive.html.
31. ↑ Jillian Scharr (June 26, 2013). "Why Warp Drives Aren't Just Science Fiction" (in en). Space.com. https://www.space.com/21721-warp-drives-wormholes-ftl.html.
32. ↑ David Kipping (March 11, 2019). "The Halo Drive: fuel-free relativistic propulsion of large masses via recycled boomerang photons". arXiv:1903.03423 [gr-qc].
33. ↑ Michio Kaku (March 15, 2011). "Physics of the Future" (in en). Doubleday.
34. ↑ Dattatreya Mandal (October 19, 2015). "MIT's conceptualized Mars habitat makes use of 'native' silica on the alien planet" (in en). hexapolis.com. https://www.hexapolis.com/2015/10/19/mits-conceptualized-mars-habitat-makes-use-of-native-silica-on-the-alien-planet/.
35. ↑ Young Bae (January 1, 2015). "The photonic railway" (in en). researchgate.net. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/298090729.
36. ↑ "Plasma bubble could protect astronauts on Mars trip" (in en). newscientist.com. July 17, 2006. https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9567-plasma-bubble-could-protect-astronauts-on-mars-trip/.
37. ↑ David Kipping (July 10, 2019). "Transiting Quasites as a Possible Technosignature" (in en). iopscience.iop.org 3 (7): p. 91. doi:10.3847/2515-5172/ab2fdb.
38. ↑ Mike Wall (March 25, 2011). "Water-Powered Spaceship Could Make Mars Trip on the Cheap" (in en). Space.com. https://www.space.com/11230-water-powered-spaceship-mars-solar-system.html.
39. ↑ David Kipping (August 1, 2019). "The "Terrascope": On the Possibility of Using the Earth as an Atmospheric Lens". Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 131 (1005): 114503. doi:10.1088/1538-3873/ab33c0. Bibcode: 2019PASP..131k4503K.
40. ↑ Brian Wang (March 19, 2013). "Thermonuclear Micro-Bomb Propulsion for Fast Interplanetary Missions by Friedwardt Winterberg" (in en). nextbigfuture.com. https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2013/03/thermonuclear-micro-bomb-propulsion-for.html.

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