WI technological progress accelerated by a generation

[Eurofed]

This is yet another of those threads where I'm fishing for ideas for a TL of mine, but expect and hope the topic may be of sufficient general interest to warrant a separate discussion.

Let's assume the pace of technological development somehow gets accelerated by a generation in comparison to OTL, across the board: in some fields it may be 10-15 years, in others 25-30, but it averages to a couple decades. Assuming that TTL 1980s-1990s have the same technology as our current one, which near-future technologies do you expect to see by 2010 ?

In order to make the discussion relevant and useful to my TL, please assume the following butterflies: a) there is no Holocaust, so voluntary eugenetics and biotechnologies suffer no Nazi-wrought cultural taboo b) after the Moon landing, the space exploration/colonization program keeps the same frantic pace as before c) electric motors, not the internal combustion engine, become the default option to power cars, and rail transport remains the main technology for long-distance land travel and cargo delivery.

[Elfwine]

This isn't directly related to faster technoloical development per se, but it sounds like high speed rail will also be more commonly used (speaking as an American).

So probably more development of public transit is part of this as a consequence.

Any consequences of exploration of Mars - what those are I'm not sure, but that's also obviously in there.

[Tyr]

So....its a FH thread but...you've decided to frame it as AH for some reason?
Basically look to what is high tech today and it'll be mainstream in a decade or so.

[Eurofed]

Originally Posted by Tyr

So....its a FH thread but...you've decided to frame it as AH for some reason?

I posted it here because the divergence is in the past (and also because I once posted a similar thread in the FH forum sometime ago and it got very little feedback anyway).

Basically look to what is high tech today and it'll be mainstream in a decade or so.

I hope to get some suggestions developed in some more detail than this. Anyway, the average technological acceleration is two decades, not one.