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I have been thinking for a long period of time of how our world may change in the future. New technologies appearing, make me constant to feel that even in 20-50 years the life on the Earth will be far different from the one we used to see today. One can’t hide the sheer fact, that constant technologies development makes our life much more convenient and easier in some way. Such a fact has motivated me to share some piece of information available about futuristic technologies that will definitely change our world, at that creating new technological era. Writing this article, I have chosen top 5 futuristic technologies that may already appear in the period of next centuries and from my viewpoint totally change the lifestyle of all mankind forever.
Robotics
Despite the fact that robots already exist in the world, we all know that they do a very limited set of functions independently of human aid, and can’t be considered today as a serious assistant for the humanity in general. But it helps to remember that robotics is on the way of its rapid and fast development process. So, in the nearest future, we will see automated helicopters, airplanes, cars, or trains which will be able to transport passengers without human control.
Furthermore, if automated transport means to reach the maximum point in its development, people may prevent the major part of traffic accidents, occurring today, as automated transport will be basically programmed for safe driving. Thus, in nearest future, such professions as pilot or driver may disappear at all.
Moreover, the scientists are already elaborating the robots which could do a certain scope of surgeries assisting doctors in this way, what in its turn will influence the quality of surgeries done today.
Also, if to speak about the military sphere, the robots may be involved in international military conflicts to assist people in fighting at that saving their lives. I dare predict that within time people will start use robots at all on the battlefields, and the conflicts will be resolved without wasting of human lives.
And that’s not all about the robots. It seems to me that robots will be actively used as housewife assistants too.
You must admit the fact that it would be much more convenient if robots could clean your house or cook food for you without human control. People would actually have much more time to set about something more useful than washing clothes or cleaning the house.
But how could these futuristic human assistants influence our lives? No one knows it for sure. If to be more realistic the life could become much more convenient than it was before, but the possibility of some rather unexpected scenario can’t be excluded as well.
Moon colonization technologies
Do you think that Moon colonization is some unrealistic scenario? But, it worth remembering that in 2009 the lunar rovers discovered some moon particles, containing ice, which could be actually melted down into water, at that making the opportunity of human constant living on Moon more realistic now.
International government scientific institutions are already developing new technologies that would enable to transfer human expedition on Moon, moreover the scientists say that the Earth resources are not unlimited, and if people elaborated the technologies for getting of lunar resources it could make possible to build some space bases on Moon, where people could actually live permanently, what in its turn would become the basis of interplanetary human influence and relationships as well. Moreover, the absence of atmosphere and low gravitation field would allow building some observation centers, that would enable to get more detailed photos of some distant regions of our universe.
It should be mentioned that Moon could be an essential center to study planetology, space science, astronomy or space biology.
Replication technology
Imagine that you had a machine that would be able to recreate any item you would actually have at the moment, starting from some of the food dishes and finishing with human organs, for instance. Even 5-10 years ago that would sound very fantastic and unbelievable. But today within the development of 3D printers, which could be treated as a major prototype of replicator, we can say for sure that it is real.
So, how would replicator work? As I understand the idea of replicator, the main working principles of it would be the formation or rearrangement of subatomic particles, which are the basics of any being on the Earth. And when you are going to create something with the use of replicator, you will just need to choose the algorithm of these subatomic particles formation to get the desired material.
It’s really quite hard to imagine how replicator could affect the world in general, but now I can say for sure that it would ease the entire human life because any sphere of human activity will be totally rearranged within the development of replicator. Imagine, how it might affect the process of human treatment in the hospitals! Nowadays there are a lot of people in the world, who need to get some of the organs transplanted. Today these surgeries are very expensive and are unavailable to the major part of citizens. So, the replicator could recreate human organs and at that making human’s life much longer than it could be.
Moreover, using the replicator people will be able to get some of the items they actually wanted to have before in the simpler way. For example, you want to have some new sneakers, and using the replicator you wouldn’t need to go and buy them somewhere, you just could recreate them at all.
Replicating machines could even synthetize almost any kind of human food, bringing much more convenience in our lives.
Generally, many more examples may be provided here, but the most essential is that such kind of replicating machines would actually play an important role in human’s world economy, making it moneyless within time.
New generation batteries
Nowadays people are finding a proper solution of how to make the use of present mobile devices much easier than today. One of the major challenge the owners of mobile devices meet every day is the battery charge. It seems at the first glance that this problem can be not so serious as it is represented to us, but just think over how many problems may arise when the battery in our mobile device is dead! Today, the scientists from California are already elaborating the batteries that needed to be charged just one time for 30 years. In other words, we actually wouldn’t have to get charging devices at all, what will make our mobile or tablet devices work 100% independent.
Just imagine what a technical revolution in the world of mobile or tablet devices could occur! As I think we would be able to observe this innovative invention already in 10-15 years.
Neurotechnologies, enlarging our life
Just think of the idea that the humanity could affect the term of their life. Seems like a nice idea, isn’t it? And now imagine that in 100-150 years it will come true. Yes, I am thinking of it absolutely serious. As you know, the major part of the mysteries connected with any disease in the world connected with human brains. And as you know as well, our brain isn’t studied perfectly well at the present day. And imagine then, that you would have such a technology that would scan our organism, and could predict the disease we could have in the future.
If to consider an average statistics of human’s life, we actually may say that people live in general from 65 to 75 years. And just think of the technology that would be able not only to predict any of human disease, but to correct the work of our organism in a way to prevent this disease at all. Applying these neurotechnologies the humanity could prolong its life in a term of up to 120-150 years. Just imagine how many things more you could do if your life term doubled!
Having observed the top 5 futuristic technologies that may appear for the period of the next centuries, we could actually just conjecture what our world will turn into. But one I can say for sure now, that the humanity will become much more informed and well-educated, the development of technologies described will influence the development of another new technology, what in its turn will make the life on the Earth very dissimilar to the one, we are living today.
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With Love,
Kate