Brain interfaces.

Imagine the speed and intensity of the Facebook/YouTube/Twitter/Reddit comments section once you take out the necessity to type.

Sounds very close to a definition of hell.

You forgot coffee between 3 and 4!

Steam engine as well

Coffee replaced beer as a safe drink. You can imagine that people thought more and thought better when they went from using a depressant to using a stimulant.

They are all about making the transmission and accumulation of information easier.

I am just guessing here. I feel we will get more connected to biology in the future meaning communication with your cells and what your body is trying to tell you.

My guess. Quantum? Quantum technology leading to very high processing of data leading to studying human genes and dna and any model you throw at it.

1. ideas as spoken words

2. spoken words as symbols

3. symbols as data

4. data as packets

Speaking is the only one on that list not generally considered a technology. Every human civilisation we know about has developed spoken language. It seems to be built in to us.

Writing has only been independently invented a few times in history, as far as we know. Some historians reckon that map-making came before written language and it was that which had the largest impact.