A little concepting trick I use:

Take your campaign strategy and apply it to 15 years in the future. Come up with as many ideas as possible and work backwards to feasibility, this way the available tech isn't limiting creative execution.

Here's a nice list of future tech/science.

It's an interesting look at what the future will hold. The prospect of "networked" systems in traffic have been talked about for the last 5-10 years (See: topdocumentaryfilms.com) but for some reason the only great innovation we've made is the step to the hybrid. Fingers crossed Tesla can actually gain some traction.

Synthetic meats are NOT the answer to anyone's dietary problems. I'm hoping in this future they'll figure out a better way for us to eat more filling less-calorie dense foods.

Also: the concept of a "cellphone" as they're presenting it is going to be outdated. We don't have a phone in our pockets so much as a miniature computer (that doesn't let us use voIP half of the time). Will it even take the same form factor?