Promising Scientific Inventions for 2020

Many of us were looking forward to seeing popular science fiction that became real in 2020. But 2020 has been surprising us since it started and in the third month of the year, it continues to surprise us. We are now in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, thanks to our rapidly evolving scientific technology. And with this rapidly changing technology, we are continually trying to reach the point where we can fight off the viruses that keep taking our lives. 

Meanwhile, there have been many other scientific inventions in 2020 that are ready to go off the shelf. Either those inventions have been developed, or they are in the process of designing, or they are just plain laughable. 

Do not forget though, the imaginations we laugh at today, end up surprising us in future when they become real.

So here are some of the promising scientific inventions for 2020 that everyone hoped would become real in 2020, have a look and find out how many of them are ready to go off the shelf. 

The List of Promising Scientific Inventions for 2020

1. Japan's Robotic Moon Base

Japan has been planning to build a robotic lunar outpost for quite some time now, and now is the time when they finally release some news about it. There is no reason, at least not technologically, that Japan would not be able to make this possible. If any country can, its Japan - build a robotic base for robots by robots. However, some economic obstacles might come in their path.

2. China's Beijing-London Rail Network 

One of the most ambitious plans of China - get 17 different countries to get on board for the idea of linking the western world with the eastern one with a high-speed rail line. No, we are not talking about linking Easter and Western China by Rail, we are talking about linking London and Beijing. How likely are the countries to trade their natural resources and human rights in exchange of infrastructure developments? 2020 is here to tell us that. 

3. Driverless Cars

Ah, the future of the automobile industry has been staring them in the face for quite some time now. These automated self-driving cars have been everyone's objective from Google to Tesla to GM and Toyota. However, there are still big hurdles in the path, and the first one is, getting all these heterogeneous cars from different companies to talk to one another. And frankly speaking, we still don't have the infrastructure to link all our vehicles, not just to each other but with the traffic too.

4. New competition: Biofuels and Fossil Fuels

Well, it's about time this happens; its pure happiness, seeing companies moving towards a sustainable future. The US military pledged in 2010; they would be using half of their energy from renewable sources by 2020. 

5. Cars will fly

JK Rowling might have made the Ford Anglia fly back in the early 2000s, the rest of the muggle world is still waiting for that magic to trickle down to the rest of us. However, as promising as this invention sounds like in 2020, technologically, logistically and economically, we still cannot reach there.

The US Military might have created something that looks and sounds like a flying car, its called 'Flying Humvee' and it is but a prototype. But the rest of us folks still have to wait for this 2020 invention to turn up. Nonetheless, at least one car is airborne, that should count as an achievement. 

6. Control devices using brains

A human brain is this universe's most fascinating, unconquered creation. While a lot of people have imagined harnessing its raw power to do something extraordinary, it still won't be able to be one of the most promising inventions of 2020. However, it was a very promising promise by Intel. 

Yes, but what is possible right now includes a chip in the brain that can respond to the gross neural activity. However, we still don't know our brain so well to create an interface that can let you surf the channel without you putting any manual effort. 

If you think there are some more out-of-the-world inventions that were promised to us in 2020, mention them in the comments! Share this article with your friends and let them know what we should keep expecting. Do not give up on 2020 just yet.