Beyond 2030: What Sports Will Look like for the Athletes, Consumers, and Managers

In this chapter, Schmidt and Stoneham take a long-term perspective on the impact of technology on sports from the viewpoints of athletes, consumers, and managers. Drawing on predictions from experts in this second edition of 21st Century Sports: How Technologies Will Change Sports in the Digital Age and their own research, the authors paint a picture of what the future of sports will be like in the next three decades. They even venture beyond the thirty-year mark, providing a glimpse of what may come and some direction for navigating the unknown.