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Earth has been abandoned because it's simply gotten too hot to live on. Instead people choose to live on cooler galaxies many light years away. (They get there by uploading their mind to the desired planet)

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The Earth's temperature has increased more than 30 degrees

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In 2300, significant technological advancements are changing the world forever. For example:

1. Superhuman Powers Are Now Possible

By this point, technologies like nanotechnology, room-temperature superconductors, anti-gravity, forcefields, and programmable matter have exponentially evolved to levels that are unimaginable to people from earlier centuries. Some humans have already uploaded their minds to synthetic bodies that allow them to achieve practical immortality. With the help of the most high-tech synthetic human bodies and synthetic human brains, individuals are now capable of having powers that would be considered superhuman and inconceivable by 21st century standards.

Depending on what technologies people have access to, they can:

Turn themselves invisible

Morph into another person entirely

Stretch their limbs to twice their length

And levitate from ground level to the roof of a skyscraper in seconds

They can:

Heal a wounded person just by touching them

Read thoughts and emotions

Extract recent memories from peoples' minds

And lift objects weighing thousands of tons

They can:

See through walls

View individual atoms with the naked eye

Use telescopic vision to see distant astronomical objects

Hear a whisper from miles away

Determine the precise chemical composition of something just by tasting, touching or smelling it

And they have the capability to constantly observe everything around them because of microscopic cameras distributed throughout their body that can view the entire electromagnetic spectrum

They can:

Sprint at lightning speed

Survive after walking on molten lava

Never require sleep

And survive indefinitely without food and water because their skin can absorb solar and vibrational energy from the environment around them

2. Humanity Is A Type 1 Civilization On The Kardashev Scale

The Kardashev scale is a method of measuring a civilization's level of technological advancement based on the amount of energy it's able to use. A Type I civilization is able to harness all of the energy on its home planet and harness all of the energy that reaches its home planet from its neighboring star.

By 2250, virtually all of Earth's natural energy was already harnessed or captured. Solar, wind, hydroelectric and geothermal technologies are being used to create huge amounts of energy using vast amounts of Earth's land, water, and atmosphere. Fusion and antimatter are used to create vast amounts of energy. Additionally, entirely new forms of energy production that were unknown in previous centuries are being utilized.

In Earth's orbit, there is now a comprehensive network of energy-capturing vessels. These vessels are organized in such a way that they harvest every ounce of incoming solar radiation being reflected back into space from Earth. Each vessel acts as a node within a gigantic web that completely encircles the planet. An invisible shield is formed between the nodes and it absorbs solar radiation from every corner of the globe.

Additionally, this invisible shield has the added benefit of stabilizing the Earth's climate. This shield is able to be adjusted at certain points around the Earth to control the amount of heat passing through from the Sun. As a result, rain can fall wherever and whenever it is needed, while hurricanes and tornadoes can be easily controlled.

This vast amount of energy now available to humans is creating enormous wealth, prosperity, and technological advancement. And because of this increased amount of energy along with state-of-the-art replicator machines, almost all material needs are virtually eliminated.

From this point forward, the only way for human civilization to gain more energy is to harvest directly from the sun and expand outward into space.

3. Teleportation Is Now Available To The Mainstream Public

When a person is using a synthetic body comprised of nanobots, they now have the ability to transport to another location that is many miles away without traversing physical space.

This is made possible by having teleporter machines at two locations that are wirelessly connected with each other.

Whenever a teleportation occurs, the physical arrangement of nanobots and the consciousness of a person is shared with the receiving teleportation machine.

It's also possible to transport other physical objects as well.

However, it's considered controversial to transport biological organisms since transporters require the destruction of the original versions of organisms.

4. Life Has Been Found On Another Planet

Because of probes equipped with antimatter propulsion, dozens of neighboring star systems have been explored. After surveying thousands of planets, automated probes discovered a one-celled organism within 100 light-years of our Solar System. As expected, this lifeform reproduces using binary fission. Its internal chemical structure is strikingly similar to DNA. This might indicate that this form of life is quite common throughout the Universe.

The planet that it lives on contains liquid water and its distance from its star makes it habitable for life. Its star system also includes gas giants in the outer regions, which offer protection from incoming comets.

5. Humans Now Live In Other Star Systems

Thanks to our ability to travel at near the speed of light, interstellar travel is increasing greatly during this time.

Settlements on planets of distant star systems are inhabited by thousands of humans and machines by now. Those star systems include:

Alpha Centauri, which is over 4 light-years away

Barnard's Star, which is about 6 light-years away

And Wolf 359, which is about 8 light-years away

Many of the space ships on these journeys are operated by beings with artificial general intelligence or super intelligence, but a small percentage contain human pilots. These human pilots are typically transhumans who have heavily modified bodies and brains. In fact, their bodies might be entirely synthetic. These humans are much better equipped to cope with long journeys than natural, non-upgraded humans. These transhumans are also much more likely to survive in harsh environments on other planets.

Hibernation pods with connections to virtual reality experiences are utilized for trips that last over several years.

When spaceships containing humans arrive at these distant planets, programmable matter technology is used to construct various types of buildings on those planets relatively quickly.

And by this point, the most distant exploratory spacecraft has reached over 50 light-years away from Earth

6. Earth Is Able To Be Protected From Asteroids

Dozens of lasers are being constructed on planets and moons throughout the solar system to stop an asteroid or comet from hitting the earth.

In many situations, humans are able to detect a potential collision from an asteroid that is projected to happen months or even years into the future. When the lasers hit those asteroids, they slightly change the trajectory of those asteroids so that they have almost no possibility of hitting Earth. The earlier we can accomplish this after detecting a potential collision, the higher the chances of success.

7. The Entire Solar System Is Being Inhabited By Humans

Earth's moon is now the most heavily populated of all the space colonies. It has millions of permanent inhabitants.

Mars has declared its independence from Earth. It's heavily populated with large cities that are connected with a hyperfast, automated rail network. A massive terraforming effort is also underway on both Mars and Venus.

The asteroid mining sector now generates the most revenues for humans in the inner solar system. Thousands of asteroids are being mined at a time. Advances in nanotechnology and related fields enable these asteroids to be stripped literally atom-by-atom so that nothing goes to waste. More than several types of precious metals are harvested for use in hi-tech industries. The largest asteroids, which are sometimes called minor planets, are being hollowed out and their interiors are converted into enormous power plants, research stations, and settlements for humans.

Jupiter is gaining a steady influx of prospectors comprised mostly of heavily-modified transhumans and sentient robots. Jupiter is being siphoned for its vast supply of hydrogen and helium. A number of floating cities and gigantic refineries are beginning to appear in the upper atmosphere of Jupiter as well. Meanwhile, Jupiter's moons are being exploited for their metals, minerals, and ice.

The rings of Saturn now have luxurious hotels orbiting around them, offering magnificent views of this massive gas giant. Guests are able to venture outside of these hotels and drift among the slowly moving ice and rock fragments in Saturn's rings. Saturn's largest moon Titan is now home to entire cities. Enceladus is another moon of Saturn, which contains an ocean of liquid saltwater under its icy crust. It has great potential to serve as a water source for human civilizations in the outer Solar System.

Even the distant planets of Uranus and Neptune have gas miners now and developments there are expected to dramatically increase over the next decades and centuries.

Pluto and the Kuiper Belt are being exploited for minerals and ice as well. The Kuiper Belt is a region of the solar system beyond the orbit of Neptune, which contains over a trillion comets, asteroids, and other small objects made largely of ice.

Lastly, much of the Solar System is being turned into "smart" rocks, with neural networks embedded throughout asteroids and on the surface of moons. This is allowing powerful artificial intelligences to handle large-scale scientific experiments and automated mining operations.

8. Moore's Law Is Reaching Its Physical Limit

Today, a computing device with a weight of 2 to 3 pounds can perform calculations that are over 40 orders of magnitude greater than the best supercomputer two centuries earlier.

That is because computer substrates are now reaching the highest density and efficiency allowed by the laws of physics. Artificial super intelligences made this possible by creating subatomic matrices at incredibly tiny scales. Diamond-like materials are not being incorporated and they're able to encode information at over several orders of magnitude smaller than nanotechnology.

One of the major issues that prevented this level of computational power in the past was heat management. Generating this level of computational power used to produce heat that was equivalent to a thermonuclear explosion in the early 2000s. However, new developments in physics eventually solved this challenge, as well as others.

9. Earth's Ecosystems Are Being Repaired

Human activity over the last couple of centuries led to catastrophic damage to natural habitats on Earth. During that time, half of the known species on earth went extinct as a result of pollution, climate change, deforestation, mining, the construction of new cities, and more.

Various wars, nuclear attacks, industrial accidents, and nanotechnology experiments also played a part in exterminating life in large parts of the world.

However, by the early 2200s, it became possible to recreate those extinct animals and plants and bring them back to life. This involved using a combination of fossil records, DNA samples, computer models, and molecular engineering. Once these lifeforms were grown or reproduced in sufficient numbers, they were distributed back to their original native environments. They're now living as close as possible to how they lived prior to human interference. There are now strict laws prohibiting any harm to come to them as well.

Additionally, entire deserts have been transformed back into forests with the use of artificial rain and other forms of weather control. Toxic lakes and rivers are being cleaned. And oceans are being de-acidified, cooled, and made habitable once again for countless sea life.

And, many decades ago, android zoos entirely replaced biological zoos as part of an effort to treat biological animals more humanely.
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Read technology predictions for 2400, a year that will see the world transform thanks to disruptions in technology that will impact a wide range of sectors-and we explore some of them below. It's your future, discover what you're in for.

Quantumrun Foresight prepared this list; A futurist consulting firm that uses strategic foresight to help companies thrive from future trends. This is just one of many possible futures society may experience.

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Welcome to futurist.com

Before you read this post check out Futurist Speaker Nikolas Badminton and what he can do for your organization with his futurist keynotes.

What will life be like in 100 and 200 Years? It's hard to consider as no-one alive today will be around. Let's speculate on those futures.

Nikolas often gets interviewed by publications on various subjects and a while back he was asked about what life will be like in 100 and 200 Years in these two Best Life articles from 2018, ' This Is What Life Could Look Like 100 Years from Now' and ' This Is What Life Could Look Like 200 Years from Now '.

In 2022 we are at a later stage of exponential progress and change. Some say that more has changed globally in the past 50 years than the previous 250, however it's the millennia behind us that have brought us to where we are today.

By 2122 we will have likely leveled-up as a race of people. I personally believe that we will hit a crunch in the next 100 years in terms of the health of the planet and the exploding population in mega-cities (cities over 10 million people in size). It's very hard to predict 20 years into the future, and maybe we shouldn't predict at all, but we can see signals of change today that inevitably come to pass and define the world in 100 years time.

Let's get into it...

What will the world look like in 100 years?

By 2122 the training wheels are off and we are in a new mode of operation with data as the foundation and systemic parts of society starting to create fairness and equality in the world (we have a long way to go from where we are today)

Here are some speculations on where we will be in 2122:

We will stabilize at around 11 billion global population with 90% of the global population will live in cities and will result in completely new ways of living and working and we will be in a 100% renewable energy situation. Mega-tall buildings - 100+ stories - will be the norm in major cities to accommodate the needs for accommodation. It's likely that no-one will drive vehicles - it will all be autonomous transportation.

The world will run on systems, sensors, cameras, artificial intelligence, and autonomous infrastructure.

Globally we will see a level of collaboration between governments that we do not see today. And, it will be about planning for greater population movement and wealth distribution. We will be headed towards a world of equality and abundance. Ideas like 'The Venus Project' will start to come into being.

We will also see the 1% moving to out-of-jurisdiction at-sea communities - they call this seasteading. Mobilization on this has already started.

We will also see research bases on The Moon and Mars. Elon Musk's grave will be on Mars at the peak of the Olympus Mons.

What will the world look like in 200 years?

By 2222 we will have ascended into being an entirely new kind of society.

Here are some speculations on where we will be in 2222:

No more disease. No more cancer. Medicine will be so advanced that we will see people living to 150+ years old. People will also forego having children but there will be some that choose to do this selectively.

Wealth and earnings have no meaning - we will have a world striving to be completely equal. Leaders will be defined the goodness they do in the world and the entire society will have an active role in building culture and sustaining communities.

Technology will be invisible. Things will just work seamlessly.

There will be pop up communities that choose to live 'the old way' off of the land and with a lack of technology. They will be seen as important parts of historical society and many people in the world will crave to visit those experiences as a reminder of how we lived, and how close we came to really screwing everything up.

This was originally shared on nikolasbadminton.com

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The future looks bright, except when it doesn't. Here are 10 exceptionally regrettable developments we can expect in the coming decades.

Listed in no particular order.
1. Virtually anyone will be able to create their own pandemic

Earlier this year, Oxford's Global Priorities Project compiled a list of catastrophes that could kill off 10 percent or more of the human population. High on the list was a deliberately engineered pandemic, and the authors warned that it could happen in as few as five years.

Many of the technologies for this prospect are starting to appear, including the CRISPR/cas9 gene-editing system and 3D-bioprinters. What's more, the blueprints for this kind of destruction are being made available. A decade ago, futurist Ray Kurzweil and technologist Bill Joy the US Department of Health for publishing the full genome of the 1918 influenza virus, calling it "extremely foolish." More recently, a number of scientists spoke out when Nature decided to publish a so-called "gain of function" study explaining how the bird flu could be mutated into something even deadlier.

The fear is that a rogue state, terrorist group, or a malign individual might create their own virus and unleash it. Natural selection is good at creating nasty and highly prolific viruses, but imagine what intentional design could concoct.

2. People who transfer their minds to computers are actually killing themselves

One of the more radical visions of the future is a world in which biological humans have traded-in their corporeal bodies in favor of a purely digital existence. This would require a person to literally upload their mind to a supercomputer, but this hypothetical process might actually result in the permanent destruction of the original person. It would be a form of unintentional suicide.

This is what's known as the "continuity of consciousness" problem. Sure, we may eventually be able to cut, copy, and paste the essence of a person's personality and memories to a digital substrate, but transferring the seat of consciousness itself may be an untenable proposition. Neuroscientists know that memories are parked in the brain as physical constructs; there's something physically there to copy. But consciousness still eludes our understanding, and we're not certain how it arises in the brain, let alone how we can transfer it from point A to point B. It's also quite possible that subjective awareness cannot be replicated in the digital realm, and that it's dependent on the presence and orientation of specific physical structures.

Mind uploading will likely require destructive atomic-scale scanning of the brain. It would be similar to the way teleportation is done in Star Trek. Indeed, one of the dirty little secrets of this sci-fi show is that the person being teleported is actually killed each time it happens, replaced by an exact duplicate who's none the wiser. Mind transfers could be similar, where the original brain is destroyed, replaced by a digital being who's convinced they're still the original-but it would be a delusion.

3. Authoritarianism will make a comeback

As threats to national security increase, and as these threats expand in severity, governments will find it necessary to enact draconian measures. Over time, many of the freedoms and civil liberties we currently take for granted, such as the freedom of assembly, the right to privacy (more on this next-it's worse than you think), or the right to travel both within and beyond the borders of our home country, could be drastically diminished.

At the same time, a fearful population will be more tempted and willing to elect a hardline government that promises to throw the hammer down on perceived threats-even overtly undemocratic regimes.

The threats to national security will have to be severe to instigate these changes, but history has precedents. Following the September 11 attacks and the subsequent mailings of anthrax spores, the US government enacted the Homeland Security Act. This legislation was criticized for being too severe and reactionary, but it's a perfect example of what happens when a nation feels under threat. Now imagine what would happen if another 9/11-type event happened, but one involving hundreds of thousands of deaths, or even millions.

Such an act of terrorism could be unleashed through miniaturized nuclear weapons, or the deliberate release of bioweapons. And the fact that small groups, and even single individuals, will have the power to attain and use these weapons will only make governments and citizens more willing to accept the loss of freedoms.

4. Privacy will become a thing of the past

We are rapidly approaching the era of ubiquitous surveillance, a time when virtually every aspect of our lives will be monitored. Privacy as we know it will cease to exist, supplanted by Big Brother's eyes and ears.

Governments, ever fearful of internal and external threats, will increasingly turn to low-cost, high-tech surveillance technologies. Corporations, eager to track the tendencies and behaviors of its users, will find it impossible to resist. Citizens of the surveillance society will have no choice but to accept that every last detail of their lives will be recorded.

Already today, surveillance cameras litter our environment, while our computers, smartphones, and tablet devices follow our daily affairs, whether it be our purchasing proclivities or the types of porn we watch.

Looking ahead, government agencies and police could deploy more sophisticated tracking devices, including the much-anticipated -tiny sensors that would monitor practically anything, from light and temperature to chemicals and vibrations. These particles could be sprinkled around Earth, functioning as the eyes and ears of the planet. In conjunction with powerful data mining algorithms, virtually everything we do would be monitored. To ensure accountability, we could watch the watchers -but will they allow it?

5. Robots will find it easy to manipulate us

Long before artificial intelligences become truly conscious or self-aware, they'll be programmed by humans and corporations to seem that way. We'll be tricked into thinking they have minds of their own, leaving us vulnerable to all manner of manipulation and persuasion. Such is the near future envisaged by futurist and sci-fi novelist . He refers to these insidious machine minds as HIERS, or Human-Interaction Empathetic Robots.

"Human empathy is both one of our paramount gifts and among our biggest weaknesses," Brin told Gizmodo. "For at least a million years, we've developed skills at lie-detection...[but] no liars ever had the training that these new HIERS will get, learning via feedback from hundreds, then thousands, then millions of human exchanges around the world, adjusting their simulated voices and facial expressions and specific wordings, till the only folks able to resist will be sociopaths-and they have plenty of chinks in their armor, as well."

Brin figures that some experts will be able to tell when they're being manipulated by one of these bots, but "that will matter about as much as it does today, as millions of voters cast their ballots based on emotional cues, defying their own clear self-interest or reason." Eventually, robots may guide and protect their gullible human partners, advising them when "to ignore the guilt-tripping scowl, the pitiable smile, the endearingly winsome gaze, the sob story or eager sales pitch-and, inevitably, the claims of sapient pain at being persecuted or oppressed for being a robot."

6. The effects of climate change will be irreversible

Late last year, world leaders forged an agreement to limit human-caused global warming to two degrees Celsius. It's a laudable goal, but we may have already passed a critical tipping point. The effects of climate change are going to be felt for hundreds, and possibly thousands, of years to come. And as we enter into the planet's Sixth Mass Extinction, we run the risk of damaging critical ecosystems and radically diminishing the diversity of life on Earth.

Climate models that even if carbon dioxide levels came to a sudden halt, the levels of this greenhouse gas in Earth's atmosphere will continue to warm our planet for hundreds of years. Our oceans will slowly release the CO2 it has been steadily absorbing, and our atmosphere may not return to pre-industrial levels for many centuries. As a recent assessment from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stated, "A large fraction of climate change is largely irreversible on human time scales."

In The Bulletin, science writer Dawn Stover lists the ramifications:

The melting of snow and ice will expose darker patches of water and land that absorb more of the sun's radiation, accelerating global warming and the retreat of ice sheets and glaciers. Scientists agree that the Western Antarctic Ice Sheet has already gone into an unstoppable decline. Currents that transport heat within the oceans will be disrupted. Ocean acidification will continue to rise, with unknown effects on marine life. Thawing permafrost and sea beds will release methane, a greenhouse gas. Droughts predicted to be the worst in 1,000 years will trigger vegetation changes and wildfires, releasing carbon. Species unable to adapt quickly to a changing climate will go extinct. Coastal communities will be submerged, creating a humanitarian crisis.

Our only recourse, it would seem, is to start geoengineering the planet, but that will also complications.

7. The antibiotic era will end

An increasing number of diseases are becoming resistant to antibiotics. Eventually, we could make the unhappy transition to a "post-antibiotic era," a time when even the most routine infections could threaten our lives.

The era of antimicrobial resistant bacteria will change medicine as we know it. Transplant surgery will become difficult, if not impossible. Simple operations, such as a burst appendix, will be perilous once again. Pneumonia would ravage the elderly, as would many other diseases of old age, including cancer.

How bad could it get? A recent report by the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries in Britain predicted that the new era of antimicrobial resistance will kill upwards of 10 million people each year by 2050. No wonder they're calling it the "antibiotic apocalypse."

Thankfully, we're not completely out of options. Scientists are currently on the hunt for undiscovered antibacterial compounds. They're also working to develop bacteria-fighting viruses and vaccines. Failing that, we could alway design artificial microorganisms that can hunt down and destroy problematic bacteria.

8. Getting robots to kill humans will be disturbingly routine-and dangerous

It's The Terminator scenario come to life-the unleashing of fully automated weapons systems that dispassionately hunt down and kill human combatants.

These systems, known as LAWS (Lethal Autonomous Weapons), are under development, and it'll only be a matter of time before they're tacked onto pre-existing weapons, including powerful munitions and nuclear warheads. These robotic weapons are supposed to reduce human casualties and make war more humane, but experts fear these futuristic killing machines could be prone to accidents and even escape human control.

LAWS will be imbued with safety mechanisms and "moral" programming, but as Wendell Wallach from Yale University's Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics told to Gizmodo, they'll be difficult to test, will still have software bugs, and will act unpredictably at times, even displaying unanticipated behavior.

"The speed-up of warfare and cost factors will make LAWS essential for advanced nations and attractive to non-state actors," Wallach said. "While countries like the US promise that there will be meaningful human control and strong communication links to LAWS, they are particularly interested in LAWS for undersea weapons because they are difficult to communicate with." As an example, Wallach worries about an unmanned submarine that mistakenly launches powerful munitions or even a nuclear warhead.

"We could have a nuclear conflagration before anyone even recognized what happened," he said. "This is only one of hundreds of scenarios where semi-intelligent weaponry poses existential risks for humanity, long before the better recognized superintelligence might ever be realized. The long-term consequences of failing to ban LAWS far-outweigh any short-term benefits."

9. We'll lose all the satellites

Few people today are aware of the risks posed by the partial or total loss of our satellite fleet, a catastrophe that could be instigated by a Kessler Syndrome (as portrayed in the film Gravity), a massive geomagnetic solar storm, or through a space war.

Without satellites, our ability to communicate would diminish dramatically. GPS would be completely wiped out, along with those systems dependent upon it. Space-based synchronization would grind to a halt, affecting everything from the financial sector to the electrical grid.

We need to take this risk more seriously and act accordingly. For starters, we should improve the robustness and resilience of our infrastructure; our dependence on satellites has put us in a precarious position. We also need to develop an appreciation of the orbital ecology. As time passes, both Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and Geosynchronous Orbit (GEO) are getting increasingly cluttered with satellites and space junk. Unless we start to clean it up, we could lose these precious areas of space for decades, if not longer.

10. We'll never make contact with aliens

We take it for granted that eventually-whether it be next week or sometime during the next millennia-we'll make contact with an extraterrestrial intelligence. Trouble is, it'll likely never happen. That's because there's no one out there transmitting signals for us to intercept, and no one's travelling between stars in search of new places to conquer.

The ongoing Great Silence isn't just a trivial observation. Our galaxy is ancient, so we should have made contact with aliens by now. Signs of ET, from radio signal leakage through to megascale engineering projects, should be virtually everywhere. Yet we see nothing.

The fact that we haven't had an alien meet-and-greet could be read as a dire warning for our future. Perhaps there's a technological barrier that can't be surmounted, such as artificial superintelligence or weaponized nanotechnology. Alternately, aliens might be paranoid and xenophobic, playing it safe in case the neighbors are hostile. Alternately, intelligent life may choose to explore the infinite realms of cyberspace instead of the cold, dead cosmos. Either way, zipping around the galaxy in spaceships doesn't appear to be an option.

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Every generation dreams of what life will be like for the next one, and our predictions as humans have historically been horribly wrong, for better and worse.

While progress is being made at unprecedented levels, history has taught us that it's wiser to remain humble yet imaginative. Knowing that, let's discuss the 10 most realistic predictions for the next 30 years that can change our lives forever.

1. Nobody Will Drive Cars Anymore

Self-driving cars are not the future, they are already here and they work. And with time, they'll get smarter, more affordable, and more accessible. Unlike human drivers, a self-driving car never fatigues, never drinks and drives, never feels sleepy, and has faster reaction times.

This will allow for much better traffic coordination and minimize traffic jams and accidents. Self-driving cars aren't perfect, granted, but they don't need to be. They just need to be better than most human drivers which is not that hard of a goal to achieve.

2. White-Collar Workers Will Become Digital Nomads

The COVID-19 pandemic showed us that remote work is not only possible but inevitable. By 2050, the world will be so connected that even having a home office won't be necessary, let alone an office building. White-collar workers will be able to become true digital nomads and will have the ability to work anytime, anywhere. The 9-to-5 workday will die once and for all.

3. Blue-Collar Jobs Will Become More Lucrative Than Ever

Although AI can't fully replace humans at work, it is making some white-collar jobs less relevant. But since blue-collar jobs like farmer, plumber, electrician, technician, and construction worker require manual labor, they will become far more lucrative than ever before in history-perhaps even more than some white-collar jobs.

4. Breakthrough in Battery Tech Will Kickstart the Next Era of Wearables

Pretty much all modern electronics, from smartphones to electric cars, run on lithium-ion batteries. And the tech has gotten us quite far since its discovery in the 1970s. But today, lithium-ion batteries are not able to keep up with the speed of tech anymore.

Fortunately, several alternative battery technologies are already in the works, so it's fair to predict that we'll see a major breakthrough within the next decade. Since battery life will no longer be a problem, it will supercharge the innovation, production, and adoption of wearable gadgets like smart glasses, watches, rings, shoes, and more.

We may also see novel gadgets like anti-anxiety headbands that reduce stress, speed-sleep earmuffs that help you fall asleep faster, or similar. These gadgets will be more focused on improving quality of life rather than enhancing productivity or entertainment.

5. VR Experiences Will Become Our Favorite Pastime

The metaverse may not happen as planned, but it's very likely that virtual reality will become a big part of our lives in the next few decades. In the same way that we pay for amusement parks today, we will pay to rent VR "experiences" in the future.

These experiences may include floating in outer space or the deep sea, walking on Mars, roaming fictional worlds like Hogwarts and Narnia, and many more. To capitalize on this future, VR artists will become a very common job, and some enthusiasts and gamers will go so far as to buy haptic bodysuits to take their experience to the next level.

6. Traditional Smartphone Form Factor Will Go Extinct

Contrary to what some say, we don't think smartphones will go extinct and be fully replaced by AR glasses. Instead, what's perhaps more likely is that the traditional smartphone form factor (aka "phablet") will go extinct but newer, flexible form factors will become mainstream like foldable or rollable phones with bigger screens.

Simple tasks that we do on our phones today like calling, messaging, and checking emails will indeed be done on wearables. But more immersive tasks like gaming, working, and video calling will probably be done on flexible smartphones which will be much thinner, lighter, and more pocketable due to the new battery tech.

7. AI Will Make Full-Length Movies

AI tools today have already started making short video clips using text prompts. And within a decade, it'll become capable enough to produce full-length movies using screenplays as prompts. Of course, you'll still need to do some manual editing, but the process will become so fast that creating a movie may only take a few weeks time at max.

We also envision actors commoditizing the use of their faces and voice, and licensing them to film studios to apply on top of stunt doubles via deepfake and voice cloning technology. That way, famous actors won't really have to perform and can just capitalize on their identity itself.

Weirdly enough, this technology may also be used to make dead actors "come back to life" and continue starring in a movie or TV series virtually forever. But this capability will spark some serious moral and ethical concerns and fuel controversy. And lastly, people will also use AI to make modifications to the parts of a movie they don't like. Yes, really.

8. Movie Theaters Will Go Extinct

Although there's nothing quite like sitting in a physical movie theater alongside real people, we think cinemas will go extinct very quickly. Why? Because it's simply more convenient to watch movies at home. And if you want that in-person cinema experience, VR artists will be more than happy to design a virtual movie theater for you and your friends.

9. GMOs and AI Will Help Supercharge the Food Industry

By 2050, the global human population is projected to reach nearly 10 billion, and this is a big problem because we already have hundreds of millions of people suffering from hunger.

An effective way we can feed billions of people in the next decades is through the use of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) crops and the deep integration of AI into the farming industry.

Humans have selectively bred plants and animals for thousands of years for better yield, and using GMO crops (simply put) is like fast-forwarding that process to get more food out of limited land. GMO crops will grow faster and bigger, and increase our food's shelf life.

AI will also help make farming more efficient, reduce wastage, use less water, and strengthen global supply chains. It's also likely that lab-grown cultured meat will replace (and be indistinguishable from) meat harvested from animals; this will help greatly reduce our emissions and slow down climate change.

10. We Will Witness the Inception of Artificial General Intelligence

The AI we have today is called ANI (artificial narrow intelligence), and although capable, it's limited to performing very specific tasks and can't match the intelligence of an adult human in multiple aspects. But since AI is growing exponentially, we may soon get to a point where "artificial general intelligence" or AGI is no longer just a prediction.

"Developing AI and AGI has been the great dream of the computing industry. For decades, the question was when computers would be better than humans at something other than making calculations," Bill Gates writes. "Now, with the arrival of machine learning and large amounts of computing power, sophisticated AIs are a reality and they will get better very fast."

With ANI, the biggest threat to society seems to be unemployment, but when we think about AGI, the dangers (and benefits) start creeping into the science-fiction territory. We could try preparing for it as much as we want, but it's impossible to predict how AGI will change our society.

The World Will Never Be the Same

Human beings are linear thinkers, so it's no surprise that the exponential growth of technology can be so difficult to comprehend. Concepts like self-driving cars, digital nomadism, wearable technology, and virtual reality were science fiction 20 years ago. But today, they are not only real but also being adopted by an increasing number of people.

Will man have set foot on Mars by 2050? Will there be the world's first trillionaire? Who knows! What we do know for sure is that, despite the challenges, there's a lot to look forward to and mankind will continue to accomplish feats previously thought impossible.

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Mind uploading - which allows them to live in synthetic bodies where anything is possible. (Morphing, super strength, etc.)

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Everyone is monitored by surveillance cameras and are tracked

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Mars is terraformed

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Solar System develops rapidly

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Cancer Vaccines

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Earth population reaches 11 billion

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Steriods developed that will give humans super-human abilities

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People living on the moon

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Interstellar exploring

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All animals have been safely shipped from earth

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Evidence that we're not alone

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First bicentenarians

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Robot Paramedics

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Invisibility suits

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Abundance of underground homes

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Science-based Photosynthetic humans

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People spend most of their time in the metaverse

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Thanks to robots, most employees work 20 hours or less per week

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O'hare Air becomes real