List of Hypothetical Technologies
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



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]

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[edit]

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



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



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



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

Minds and psychology[edit]

Artificial general intelligence
Brainwashing
Cortical modem
Digital immortality
Endoneurobot[19]
Gliabot[19]
Global brain
Infomorph
Intelligence amplification
Isolated brain
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



Anti-gravity
Antimatter weapon
Non-rotational artificial gravity
Brownian ratchet
Cloaking device
Computronium
Electrogravitics
Faster than light communication
Femtotechnology
Gravitational shielding
Gamma-ray laser
Inertia negation[citation needed]
Monopolium[23]
Muon collider
Neutronium
Phased-array optics
Picotechnology
Plasmonster[24]
Room-temperature superconductor
Space-time cloak[25]
Tachyonic antitelephone
Teleforce
Teleporter
Time machine
Tipler cylinder
Tractor beam
Wet workshop

Nuclear energy and weaponry[edit]

Cold fusion
Fission fragment reactor
Fusion torch
Gas-cooled fast reactor
Gas core reactor
High-temperature superconducting stellarator[26]
Inertial fusion power plant
Magnetic fusion power plant
Microfission bomb[27]
Muon-catalyzed fusion reactor[28]
Nuclear bullet[29]
Nuclear clock
Nuclear fusion–fission hybrid reactor
Nuclear fusion bomb power plant
Nuclear isomer bomb/Pure gamma-ray bomb[30]
Nuclear pulse-powered X-ray laser
Nuclear-powered car
 Nuclear-powered cruise missile
Nuclear-powered aircraft
Nuclear-powered locomotive[31]
Nuclear-powered tank
Nuclear shaped charge
Pure fusion weapon
Reduced moderation water reactor
Subcritical fission bomb[27]
Supercritical water reactor
Supercritical carbon dioxide reactor[32]
Transplutonic fission bomb[27]
Traveling wave reactor
Very-high-temperature reactor



Alderson disk
Alcubierre drive
Antimatter rocket
Artificial universe[33]
Asteroid laser ablation
Beam powered propulsion
Bernal sphere
Bias drive[34]
Bishop ring
Black hole starship
Bracewell probe
Bussard ramjet
Dean drive
Dipole drive[35]
Dyson sphere
Dyson–Harrop satellite
Enzmann starship
Field propulsion
Fission sail
Ford-Svaiter mirror[36]
Fusion rocket
Gas core reactor rocket
Gravity tractor
Halo drive[37]
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[38]
Nano electrokinetic thruster
Nanoship[39]
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[40]
Photon rocket
Photonic railway[41]
Pitch drive[34]
Plasma bubble[42]
Quantum telescope
Quantum vacuum thruster
Quasite[43]
Ringworld
Reactionless drive
RF resonant cavity thruster
Rocket sled launch
Rotating wheel space station
Self-replicating spacecraft
Skyhook
Solar thermal rocket
Space coach[44]
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[45]
Thermonuclear micro-bomb engine[46]
Topopolis



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



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