Historically speaking, it’s been fairly easy to predict what the future will look like. And the further back we go, the easier it is.

Up until only a few hundred years ago, change happened so slowly that people likely didn’t imagine what the future would look like. Things simply didn’t change. The life your grandparents lived, was the same as the one you lived. The same would be said for your grandchildren and their grandchildren to come.

You were born either into nobility or peasantry. You lived your life with all of the advantages or perils that came with that life. And then you died.

Aside from the odd war or famine, the world around you remained largely stagnant. Life-changing technological advancements were few and far between.

Only in recent centuries did noticeable change happen within a generation or two. Only then did people start imagining what changes the future might bring.

Since then, change has gone exponential. And we now find ourselves at a place where we not only imagine the future, but that future often materializes in mere decades.

In Kevin Kelly’s phenomenal book ‘The Inevitable,’ he makes 12 powerful predictions of how technology will shape our future. The truly fascinating part isn’t that some of his ideas are bordering on science fiction — it’s that we’ll likely see them within a generation.

Technology is advancing at such incredible speeds right now that even the most far-fetched ideas are likely no more than a century away from becoming reality.

And things are only getting faster.

Buckle up.