American scientist Michio Kaku in his book "Physics of the Future" tried to predict how our world will change over the course of 100 years. What technologies will appear and what new threats will challenge humanity.
Technology is evolving very quickly. A simple card that sings "Happy Birthday!" Surpasses the computing power that Hitler and Stalin had. At this rate of growth, computer chips will soon not be separate entities - they will be embedded inside everything: buildings, people, and even food.
The glasses will be connected to the Internet. They will instantly read information and display it on the lenses of the owners. Navigation and shopping will be much easier. I went to the store, and the glasses showed where to buy the same thing, but cheaper. Tangled in narrow streets somewhere in Mytishchi - a navigator with glasses will lead to the highway.
We all remember such an attempt - smart glasses Google Glass. But now the project is on hold. I think Google was in a hurry - the appropriate technology has not yet been developed to make such glasses really useful and effective. But in 10-15 years - quite!
The scientist does not admire robots at all, but looks at their progress with suspicion. Most likely, robots at some stage of their development will try to move people away from process control. Artificial intelligence will feel its superiority and will be able to go beyond the "do no harm to humans" program. However, robots do not have to destroy people. It is much easier to drive people to reservations, feed, drink and assume that people are happy (well, just as we think about hamsters bored in cages).
Although a positive scenario of symbiosis between humans and robots is also possible. In the future, a full-fledged supercomputer can be created from the Earth, which will have artificial intelligence and travel across the Universe. So we get rid of the limitations of interstellar flight.
Scientists will learn how to properly reprogram the correct genes. In particular, it will activate genes that slow down the aging process.
A microsensor will be installed in the body of each person. It will read basic health indicators. The information will be forwarded to a medical center of each patient's choice. And when oncology and other diseases appear, they will be solved with the help of nanorobots. A small robot will go through the vessels to the affected area and inject medications pointwise.
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Viruses can also be tracked and destroyed at the point of their localization, until they affect the entire body.
In the 21st century, people will learn to revive extinct species of animals and plants that have preserved their genome. And the necessary tissues can be grown from stem cells.
Social problems in the next 10-20 years will get worse. Oil fields will begin to deplete, and migrants will actively make their way to the West. In doing so, they will wastefully relate to energy, which is finite.
There is only one way to solve the problem - to invent new sources of energy. The future will belong to hydrogen and solar energy, the scientist is sure.
Humanity will not seriously deal with the problem of global warming. There will be only beautiful conversations. Why is that? Because hydrocarbons are the cheapest energy source at the moment. And this leads to economic growth that everyone cares about. Therefore, the only way out, as in the previous paragraph, is
The author says that peoples do not want to deal with the problem of global warming, since fossil fuels, being the cheapest source of energy, stimulate economic growth.
The discovery of electricity turned the world upside down in the 20th century. "Electricity of the XXI century" will be magnetism - namely, the discovery of superconductivity at room temperature.
Superconductivity is a property of metals when their resistance becomes zero. This means that the efficiency of the electric current is close to 100%, there is practically no energy loss. This happens at low temperatures.
If you run a current into a superconducting ring, it can work there for 100 thousand years!
Where it leads? We will have powerful magnets. There will be trains and magnetic levitation cars that will hover above the surface. This means that they have to move with great speed, because the force of friction with asphalt does not affect them (only with air, but it is thousands of times weaker). This will be a real technological revolution! After all, such transport requires much less costs.
Transportation of goods and products will become much easier and cheaper, which means that goods in stores will become cheaper. And travel will generally be simplified to a minimum. By the way, this would help the environment, as emissions from aircraft would be significantly reduced. The planes would remain only for intercontinental flights.
Well, globally, humanity is moving towards the creation of a planetary civilization. Travel will become easier, resources will be cheaper, computers of the future will be able to translate any speech easily, and the language barrier will disappear. There are already many events that unite all nations. Pop culture, movies and sports.
Author: Alexander Dementiev