Technologies such as 3D Laser Scanning, Augmented Reality, Enhanced Visual Communication, Automation on the Shop Floor, Internet of Things, Materials Enhancements, Cloud Computing, 3D Printing, and Generative Design are all rapidly improving and more importantly, are set to converge in a synergistic way, enabling an explosion of technology that will affect all industries including shipbuilding. For various structural reasons, the shipbuilding industry may be hesitant to embrace these changes but countervailing forces will overcome this and result in different methods being used for design, engineering and construction in 2030 and beyond. This paper examines those technologies and the forces driving change.