21 defining tech shifts to impact lives by 2030

21 defining technologies are set to change our lives in unimaginable ways in the next 14 years, as per the World Economic Forum report.

Zee Media Bureau

New Delhi: Reports of robots stealing jobs and driverless cars are doing the rounds these days. However alarmist or fascinating they may appear to be, but technological shifts are set to change lives before we would even realize it.

The World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council's report 'Deep Shift: Technology Tipping Points and Societal Impact' talks of the following technologies that will reach a tipping point between by 2010 change our life like never before:

1) 90% of the population will have unlimited and free data storage by 2018

2) The first robotic pharmacist will arrive in the US 2021

3) 1 trillion sensors will be connected to the internet by 2022

4) 10% of the world's population will be wearing clothes connected to the internet by 2022

5) The first 3D-printed car will be in production by 2022

6) The first implantable mobile phone will become commercially available in 2025

7) The first government to replace its census with big-data technologies by 2023

8) 10% of reading glasses will be connected to the internet by 2023

9) 80% of people on earth will have a digital presence online by 2023

10) A government will collect taxes for the first time via blockchain 2023

11) 90% of the global population will have a supercomputer in their pocket by 2023

12) Access to the Internet will become a basic right by 2024

13) The first transplant of a 3D-printed liver will occur 2024

14) More than 50% of Internet traffic to homes will be from appliances and device by 2024

15) 5% of consumer products will be 3D-printed

16) 30% of corporate audits will be performed by artificial intelligence 2025

17) Globally, more trips will be made using car sharing programs than privately owned cars by 2025

18) Driverless cars will account for 10% of all cars in the US.

19)The first AI machine will join a corporate board of directors 2026

20)The first city with more than 50,000 people and no traffic lights will come into existence by 2026.

21) 10% of global gross domestic product will be stored using blockchain technology 2027.