In 2018, a number of technology breakthroughs and trends will become available to the public, for example:
- There will be one Wi-Fi hotspot for every 20 people.
- Elon Musk's supersonic Hyperloop train to open to public
- Apple Inc. transition to OLEDs screens, marking shift in smartphone industry
- Tesla plans to build and sell 500,000 electric vehicles
- HP's latest computer invention, The Machine, is available for purchase and is 6 times more powerful than current servers
- 10Gbps Wi-Fi available at 5GHz frequency bands
- Cell phone signals become 1000x faster with pCell
- James Webb Space Telescope is launched into orbit to discover liquid water on other planets
- First 3D printed car created
- Cost of solar panels, per watt, equals 1.5 US dollars
- Kenya/Uganda/Rwanda's "Mombasa-Kigali railway project" is fully built
- London's "London Crossrail" is fully built
- Abu Dhabi's "Saadiyat Island" is fully built
- South Korea's "Songdo IBD" is fully built
- Abu Dhabi's "Yas Island" is fully built
- World sales of electric vehicles reaches 5,200,000
- Predicted global mobile web traffic equals 10.5 exabytes
- Global Internet traffic grows to 132 exabytes.