List of hypothetical technologies
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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:
- Must not exist yet
- Is credibly proposed to exist in the future (e.g. no perpetual motion machines)
- If the technology does not have an existing article (i.e. it is "redlinked"), a reference must be provided for it
Biology
[edit | edit source]- 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
[edit | edit source]Computing and robotics
[edit | edit source]Megastructures
[edit | edit source]Nanotechnology
[edit | edit source]Transport
[edit | edit source]Minds and psychology
[edit | edit source]- Artificial general intelligence
- Brainwashing
- Cortical modem
- Digital immortality
- Endoneurobot[19]
- Eradication of suffering
- Gliabot[19]
- Global brain
- Infomorph
- Intelligence amplification
- Isolated brain
- Matrioshka brain
- Memory editing[20]
- Mind uploading
- Moral enhancement
- Simulated reality
- Sphalerizer[21]
- Superintelligence
- Synaptobot[19]
- Technological singularity
- Thought recording and reproduction device
- Universal translator
Physics
[edit | edit source]- Anti-gravity
- Antimatter weapon
- Non-rotational artificial gravity
- Brownian ratchet
- Cloaking device
- Computronium
- Electrogravitics
- Faster-than-light communication
- Femtotechnology
- Gravitational shielding
- Gamma-ray laser
- Monopolium[22]
- Muon collider
- Neutronium
- Phased-array optics
- Picotechnology
- Plasmonster[23]
- Room-temperature superconductor
- Space-time cloak[24]
- Tachyonic antitelephone
- Teleforce
- Teleporter
- Time machine
- Tipler cylinder
- Tractor beam
- Wet workshop
Nuclear energy and weaponry
[edit | edit source]- Cold fusion
- Fission fragment reactor
- Fusion torch
- Gas-cooled fast reactor
- Gas core reactor
- High-temperature superconducting stellarator[25]
- Inertial fusion power plant
- Magnetic fusion power plant
- Microfission bomb[26]
- Muon-catalyzed fusion reactor[27]
- Nuclear bullet[28]
- Nuclear clock
- Nuclear fusion–fission hybrid reactor
- Nuclear fusion bomb power plant
- Nuclear isomer bomb/Pure gamma-ray bomb[29]
- Nuclear pulse-powered X-ray laser
- Nuclear-powered car
- Nuclear-powered cruise missile
- Nuclear-powered aircraft
- Nuclear-powered locomotive[30]
- Nuclear-powered tank
- Nuclear shaped charge
- Pure fusion weapon
- Reduced moderation water reactor
- Subcritical fission bomb[26]
- Supercritical water reactor
- Supercritical carbon dioxide reactor[31]
- Transplutonic fission bomb[26]
- Traveling wave reactor
- Very-high-temperature reactor
Space
[edit | edit source]- Alderson disk
- Alcubierre drive
- Antimatter rocket
- Artificial universe[32]
- Asteroid laser ablation
- Beam powered propulsion
- Bernal sphere
- Bias drive[33]
- Bishop ring
- Black hole starship
- Bracewell probe
- Bussard ramjet
- Dean drive
- Dipole drive[34]
- Dyson sphere
- Dyson–Harrop satellite
- Enzmann starship
- Field propulsion
- Fission sail
- Ford-Svaiter mirror[35]
- Fusion rocket
- Gas core reactor rocket
- Gravity tractor
- Halo drive[36]
- Information panspermia
- Isotropic beacon
- Krasnikov tube
- Laser broom
- Laser propulsion
- Launch loop
- Lightcraft
- Liquid core nuclear propulsion
- Lunarcrete
- Lunar space elevator
- MagBeam
- Magnetic sail
- McKendree cylinder
- Momentum exchange tether
- Muon-catalyzed fusion propulsion[37]
- Nano electrokinetic thruster
- Nanoship[38]
- Non-rocket spacelaunch
- Nuclear electric rocket
- Nuclear lightbulb
- Nuclear photonic rocket
- Nuclear pulse propulsion
- Nuclear salt-water rocket
- Nuclear thermal rocket
- Pulsed nuclear thermal rocket
- Radioisotope rocket
- O'Neill cylinder
- Orbital ring
- Ouroboros habitat[39]
- Photon rocket
- Photonic railway[40]
- Pitch drive[33]
- Plasma bubble[41]
- Quantum telescope
- Quantum vacuum thruster
- Quasite[42]
- Ringworld
- Reactionless drive
- RF resonant cavity thruster
- Rocket sled launch
- Rotating wheel space station
- Self-replicating spacecraft
- Skyhook
- Solar thermal rocket
- Space coach[43]
- 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
- Terraforming
- Terrascope[44]
- Thermonuclear micro-bomb engine[45]
- Topopolis
See also
[edit | edit source]- 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 space stations
- List of fictional spacecraft
- List of fictional vehicles
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