Futuristic 2024, May

Technology is advancing so fast that we often cannot keep up with it. Very soon, mankind will be able to turn other worlds into gardens of paradise and wipe entire continents off the face of the Earth with a snap of fingers. Our friends from "Eksmo" have collected for you the most interesting works on the coming century and the problems that it will bring

American astrophysicists have presented a fundamentally new theory: in the future, they will be able to transfer planets into the so-called "habitable zone" so that they become suitable for life. To do this, they will need a satellite with a gravitational thrust

Over the past decade, computer games have made a dizzying leap in development. The first 3D images of the past today bring a smile compared to the increasingly detailed elaboration of the modern computer landscape and characters

For the origin of life, the fusion of the male and female germ cells is necessary. It is so? Is it possible to do without it?

People will suffer from congenital blood diseases, but become resistant to malaria. The development of computer technology will significantly reduce the human brain, and men will disappear due to mutations in the Y chromosome

Today it is already difficult to imagine that not so long ago we lived in a world without smartphones, instagram and even navigators

What will happen if we manage to create animals endowed with the same intelligence as ours? As BBC Future found out, it looks like a start has already been made

The opening of the world's first hotel on the space station is scheduled for 2022, reports SpaceNews. The American company Orion Span is developing the hotel on the Aurora modular orbital station

Swedish specialists are working on creating "electronic copies" of deceased people. At first, these will be just programs, but in the future, robots visually similar to the dead may be created

Humanity has been living on Earth for about 300 million years, constantly changing throughout the entire period of its existence. People living on Earth today, representatives of the species Homo sapiens, have appeared relatively recently - between 200 and 50 thousand years ago

The report of the Research Center of the Land of the Rising Sun was published the day before and presented to the general public. Based on this, by 2035 in Japan, almost all possible work will be performed by robotic technology

Anthropologists talked about the development of the human race over the past 100 years, highlighting both positive dynamics and negative phenomena

We have already written about the fact that the pornography industry is actively being introduced into modern engineering

When the warp drive was first introduced to humans - along with the debut of Star Trek fifty years ago - our understanding of the universe was fundamentally different from the current

Some independent researchers believe that a century of airships awaits the inhabitants of the Earth in the future, and Russia will play a key role in this

The end of the 19th - the beginning of the 20th century was marked by a new aircraft, which was named an airship. At that time, any aircraft in the sky became a sensation and the object of a human dream

With the acceleration of technological progress, humanity may be rapidly approaching a critical point in its development

The world famous British scientist James Lovelock, who was the first to discover the harmful effect of chlorofluorocarbons on the ozone layer of the planet, shocked the public with his statements more than once

Specialists of Tomsk State University (TSU) joined the consortium for the development of the space resource base

In Voronezh, research is being conducted on freezing people to prolong their life. An unusual project was launched by KrioRus, which has been keeping the bodies of the deceased in liquid nitrogen for more than eight years in order to revive them in the future

Developing genetic technologies like CRISPR genome editing can be comparable in their possible danger to weapons of mass destruction

If while "Jurassic Park" is a fiction, then "Ice Age Park" is completely real

According to a professor from Stanford, very soon the growth of the population on our planet may lead to the fact that humanity will be forced to start feeding on its own kind

Anthropologist Stanislav Drobyshevsky told what surprises the further evolution of our species is fraught with. We more or less imagine the path from monkey to man. And what will happen to us next

Leading geneticists have said that human genes could be programmed to make people immune to radiation, aging and cold

According to the International Energy Agency and a number of US government departments, global climate change will not only lead to the destruction of life on Earth, this danger is quite comparable to a much more serious disaster

What will happen if the entire population of the Earth is settled in one city? What size will this metropolis be, and will it be able to provide all the resources? Are there real examples of cities with ultra-high population density

Today, the twenty-fifth of April is International DNA Day. Exactly sixty-six years ago, scientists published the first studies of the molecular structure of the basis of every life we know. Now, when genetics has reached incredible heights, humanity is on the verge of a fantastic revolution.DNA

At one time, literally from every crack in the media space, futurologists crawled out with their predictions. Futurologists are people who predict the future, talk about how we will live in many years and what humanity is striving for in general

Most of the forecasts of the future are similar

One of the founders of the genre - Jules Verne - predicted not only space travel, submarines, helicopters, but also artificial satellites and guided missiles with a jet engine. H.G. Wells describes the laser in War of the Worlds

In this article, I will speculate about the future of the present civilization. All reasoning is just my subjective opinion, since no one can know for sure what happened in the past.According to my version, before our civilization, even over the past 10,000 years, there were at least 4-5 other civilizations on Earth, completely different in terms of development

Microsoft President Brad Smith said the use of autonomous combat weapons systems posed a number of ethical issues that governments need to address as urgently as possible.He said that rapidly advancing technologies, where flying, floating or walking drones can be equipped with lethal weapons - missiles, bombs or small arms and are programmed to operate fully or partially autonomously, "will end up … in many countries."

"Asgardia" - rather unusual project, the purpose of which is - create a separate nation in space. Last month, its authors announced their intention to eventually build a space station in low-earth orbit and on the moon

After the World Health Organization declared a state of emergency over the Zika virus epidemic, reporters recalled a longstanding US Army report revealing the military's interest in the use of mosquitoes for military purposes

If the world existed according to the rules of science fiction, time travel, teleportation, aliens and humanoid robots would be commonplace. However, we live in a real world where science fiction is not fact, but just fiction

I like zombies, or rather, I like killing them. I shoot hundreds of them every week on my Xbox while playing Half Life, Oblivion and Dead Space. And how many films have been filmed about them! Obviously we like it when zombies scare us

According to the UN forecast, the world's population will grow to 8.6 billion by 2030, to 9.8 billion by 2050 and to 11.2 billion by 2100. Most notable population growth will be observed in African countries

By 2050, about half of the world's population will suffer from myopia, and a fifth of the population will have a critical increase in the risk of blindness, scientists say. The study was published in the journal Ophthalmology

Twentieth-century science fiction writers have often placed their heroes in the next century, detailing the technology and society of the future. Almost everyone was sure that humanity in 100-150 years will already conquer the nearest interplanetary space