The future is just the speculation of a handful of futurists, scientists and specialists. But who to believe if not them? City crazy? Politicians? Wanga's predictions? That's just the point: there is no choice. However, some predictions look, to put it mildly, strange - we want to talk about them. So what to do? Life is generally a strange thing!
You will be able to communicate with deceased relatives
According to the notorious futurist Ray Kurzweil, it is possible. Thoughts about death and eternal life do not let a person go, and this is reflected even in technology. Alas, it is impossible to make people immortal, but they can be digitized - to create a virtual reality where programmed avatars of our deceased relatives will exist, which will look like living beings, communicate with us like the ghost of Obi-Wan. All that is needed for this is as much information as possible about the deceased and patience.
Only one question arises: is it necessary to re-agitate the heart, communicating with someone who does not exist? After all, this is not a living person, but a projection that cannot be hugged and which is, by and large, artificial. And this realization will come sooner or later. So after all, you can go crazy, right down to the desire to commit suicide in order to be closer to the mirage.
Your kitchen will take care of your meals
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Another reason to leave the room will soon disappear. You just have to wait for Amazon to arrange the delivery of food using drones directly to the kitchen. And you don't have to poke your fingers into buttons or call by phone - everything will be done by a smart refrigerator, which will send out notifications about missing products by itself. So in the future, don't be surprised where all the money disappears: it was spent by the refrigerator, which decided that you couldn't do without lamb carcass and 17 kg of potatoes. Now, if these refrigerators earned money themselves and threw away the missing food, they would not have a price.
Can browse the web with their contact lenses
A group of Samsung engineers are developing contact lenses that will enable users to access the Internet. To do this, they stuffed a light-emitting diode, high-tech graphite and silver nanowires into a tiny lens and, according to rumors, have already tested them. They are controlled by eye movement. The main thing is not to turn them on while driving, otherwise the untimely video from YouTube will be the last thing you saw.
We will share thoughts
According to futurists and brain specialists, there is no doubt that this will be possible in the foreseeable future. It's simple: thoughts and impulses are translated into data that can be stored in the cloud, and, if something happens, it can be sent to friends. And that is convenient! After all, usually brilliant thoughts disappear irrevocably, and here they can be carefully saved. Just keep your dirty thoughts to yourself, because any cloud can be hacked. How are you going to look people in the eye after they are published?
Mars will have rings like Saturn
The only thing that makes Saturn any interesting is its rings. But, as astrophysicists say, he doesn't have long to show off in circles. Some 20-40 million years, and the same beauty will appear on Mars. No, this is not another project by Elon Musk. Scientists have long noticed that the satellites of the Red Planet - Deimos and Phobos - are getting closer and closer to the surface of Mars every year. And one fine moment the force of gravity will tear the unfortunate satellites into small fragments. Well, where to go to these debris? They will enter the orbit of the planet and form a near-Saturnian landscape.
Revived "Jurassic Park"
Thanks to advances in cloning technology and biogenetics, we will be able to personally enjoy the greatness of mammoths, megalodons and the vile intrusiveness of raptors. So what if they are without a navel, but alive! It will come to the point that genetics will "resurrect" Neanderthals and animals that were mercilessly exterminated several centuries ago. Why is this needed? Simply because genetics can do it - there are no other reasons. Aren't you interested in seeing the real Jurasik Park, and not the fruit of Maestro Spielberg's imagination?
CGI will completely replace actors
Why do you need an actor if you can create your own ideal? He does not need to pay a lot of money, since he will fully and completely exist in the digital space. There will be no need to build scenery and look for extras: everyone can be created in special editors and endowed with the necessary features - almost like in Pelevin's "Generation P". But it's too early for the actors to worry about their jobs. This technology will not soon become popular and in demand.
AI will replace artists
According to Ray Kurzweil, a man whose predictions come true with a 90% probability, computers will soon be able to draw, write, compose and create better than the most ingenious of people. Apparently, one should expect a large number of suicides among unclaimed creative people.
The days will get longer
It's not about changing the perception of time and other metaphysical rubbish. The days are literally getting longer: every 100 years, the day increases by 1.7 milliseconds. So someday humanity will have the same missing 25th hour. But Nekrasov's words come to mind: "It's a pity - you won't have to live in this wonderful time - neither for me, nor for you."
We'll eat swamp-grown food
According to some forward-thinking minds in the food industry, we will soon be eating things made from seaweed. Yes, from that thick slime that floats on the surface of the water. Apparently, thanks to flavors and flavor substitutes, we won't even have a clue that just a few days ago it was just a common swamp mud.
Smart pills will be able to detect health threats
In 2014, Google X labs announced they were working on microscopic pills that would circulate bloodstream and detect cancer and heart disease long before they become dangerous. And this is a great alternative to medical examinations, which no one ever goes to. Diseases are usually remembered when they are already blooming in a violent color and one cannot do without serious intervention. And so there is a hope that the disease will not go unnoticed.
Bathroom mirrors will check us every morning
If you want to know the condition of your skin, weight and how old you look, then look in the mirror. According to the British technology company Futurizon, soon every citizen of the Earth will have a bathroom with mirrors, which have built-in LED displays and high-resolution cameras. You will be able to track changes, and the data will be transferred to the attending physician. Naturally, the mirror, like other modern gadgets, will be connected to the Internet.
Planes of the future will have panoramic windows
The problem with portholes is not even that they suck in and kill people - they are rather an exception to the rule. But the fact that not everyone can see the heavenly beauty from the window is a fact. The more valuable is the window seat. After all, what is the most pleasant thing during the flight? No, not food and not even a calm neighbor. The most pleasant thing is the view: endless plains, rivers and cities blazing with electric light. Everything seems so small and fussy. That is why Spike Aerospace develops airplanes with panoramic windows. However, one should not think that these will be the traditional type of portholes, for the manufacture of which glass, plastic and rubber seals are used. The portholes will be virtual, but no less impressive. It's even better and more beautiful this way.
Every step you take will be watched by a dust spy
Recently, Californian professor Chris Pister introduced the world to the concept of "smart dust" - tiny sensors invisible to the human eye that can record and transmit any information. Although this technology has not been mentioned before, evil tongues have begun to talk that it is by no means new and has been used by intelligence for many years. After all, as you know, most technologies are first developed for military needs, and only then, after sufficient study and use, passes into the tenacious hands of civilians. I am glad that now this very dust will not be a secret for us.
Auto-driving cars will become a reality, not a fantasy
According to forecasts, there will be about 10 million self-driving cars on the roads in the next 2-3 years. The long-standing dream of Google and Tesla to flood the market with drones has long been known. But it is much more interesting how many of them will be on our roads.
Nanorobots in your blood can protect you from disease
It is a little uncomfortable to realize that there are robots scurrying inside you that can be hacked. But on the other hand, they are much more effective in protecting you from diseases than their own dysfunctional immunity. However, there are many more questions than answers about robots. For example, where will your health information be stored? After all, in fact, if you wish, you can get to know you, so to speak, from the inside, in the smallest detail, right down to a genetic predisposition to specific diseases. Fortunately, all of this will not happen until 2030, so there is still time to find out the level of privacy and the ethical implications of such technology.
Antibiotics will stop working
For more than a dozen years we have been getting used to antibiotics just so that they stop working. Alas, the era of antimicrobial resistance is ending, which could lead to a very real pestilence among patients. Presumably, this will happen in the 2050s, so all hope is for medicine, otherwise our future is sad.
The asteroid will arrive, but not soon
Someday this should happen, because millions of people are almost looking forward to this event. Therefore, NASA decided to reassure all those hoping for a collision of the Earth with Nibiru or asteroids. Presumably, this will happen on March 16, 2880. This prediction has the highest probability of coming true - as much as 1%. Yes, yes, with a 99% probability, humanity will again escape the fate of the dinosaur ancestors.
We will have access to the knowledge of the whole world
If you think you have access to any information, then let me disappoint you. Not all data is posted on the Web. According to Google, they plan to make all of the world's information publicly available. Presumably, it will take at least 300 years. Another question, is it necessary? After all, we do not use data from the Internet to the fullest, wasting time searching for porn and cheap goods.
Fully functional robots
We are holding our breath, still waiting for the robots we see on the big screen. According to experts, AI is proving to be a much bigger problem than expected.
However, what we will see shortly is a transhuman. We will soon begin replacing parts of ourselves with machines and genetically modified body parts. And soon we will face a struggle between the higher people that we have created, and people without complements.
Brain prosthesis
For the first time, it became known about neural prostheses in 2005. It is important to understand that this is not a substitute for the brain, but a kind of hard drives for storing memory, as well as a kind of patches that can repair damage in the brain and improve its activity. It will take decades to develop them, but someday people will be able to bring their minds closer to the level of a computer.
We'll still have to leave Earth
Stephen Hawking also said that the planet is doomed and we will have to look for a new home. Nasty things like climate change, epidemics, population growth and natural disasters will make life unbearable. Plus, the unfortunate 1% percent of the threatening asteroid haunts everything.
Theodore Sedin