Transmission will be just as easy as other forms of brain augmentation. Picking up thoughts and relaying them to another brain will not be much harder than storing them on the net. Synthetic telepathy sounds like something out of Hollywood but it is absolutely possible, so long as "communication" is understood to be electrical signals rather than words. It is more likely that direct brain links using electronics will achieve this, but GM will help a lot by increasing longevity - keeping people alive until electronic immortality technology is freely available at reasonable cost.
The idea that breakthroughs in the field of genetics, biotechnology and artificial intelligence will expand human intelligence and allow our species to essentially defeat death is sometimes called the Singularity. There is already some weather control technology for mediating tornadoes, making it rain and so on, and thanks to climate change concerns, a huge amount of knowledge is being gleaned on how weather works.
We will probably have technology to be able to control weather when we need to. It won't necessarily be cheap enough to use routinely and is more likely to be used to avoid severe damage in key areas.
We will certainly attempt to. A majority of scientists in the US support a federal programme to explore methods for engineering the Earth's climate otherwise known as geoengineering. These technologies aim to protect against the worst effects of manmade climate change. Antarctica will be "open for business" Dev 2.
The area seems worth keeping as a natural wilderness so I am hesitant here, but I do expect that pressure will eventually mean that some large areas will be used commercially for resources. It should be possible to do so without damaging nature there if the technology is good enough, and this will probably be a condition of exploration rights. PT: Pretty close. Before there is a rush to develop Antarctica we will most likely see a full-scale rush to develop the Arctic. Whether the Arctic states tighten control over the region's resources, or find equitable and sustainable ways to share them will be a major political challenge in the decades ahead.
Successful if not necessarily sustainable development of the Arctic portends well for the development of Antarctica. This is very plausible. We are already seeing electronic currency that can be used anywhere, and this trend will continue. It is quite likely that there will be only a few regional currencies by the middle of the century and worldwide acceptance of a global electronic currency.
This will gradually mean the others fall out of use and only one will left by the end of the century. PT: Great try! The trend on this is actually more in the opposite direction.
The internet is enabling new forms of bartering and value exchange. Local currencies are also now used by several hundred communities across the US and Europe. In other words, look for many more types of currency and exchange not fewer, in the coming decades. We will all be wired to computers to make our brains work faster Dev 2.
We can expect this as soon as for many people. By most people in the developed world will use machine augmentation of some sort for their brains and, by the end of the century, pretty much everyone will. Do you agree or disagree with Acemoglu? Or, as past predictions have shown , it's impossible to accurately conjecture what life will be like in years. Let us know your thoughts in the comments below or on Facebook.
Breadcrumb alum. Sort by Relevance Date. What Will the World Be Like in ? May 4, Jay London. No vision of the future is complete without flying cars. If you ask people today about the world in , they will, invariably, say we will have cars in the air. People are desperate to hold on to the idea of a future where you can take to the sky in your personal vehicle.
Though stop to think for a second: How different is this vision than one when the skies are full of personal UAVs. Do you have to be in the flying car?
There also seems to have been a fixation on a future where we would spend large amounts of our life underwater, holding races on seahorses, upside-down fishing for seagulls, and taking rides on buses powered by whales.
Not to mention underwater hotels. But these bad guesses also speak correctly to our present: The ocean remains almost entirely unexplored and unexploited except for taking all the fish out of it. Perhaps even years ago, French artists saw that we would be using up our resources and space on land, and so guessed that the sea would be the next logical place to move.
Above, you can see that years ago, someone knew that the Roomba would be coming to our living rooms.
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