Technology: The 5 Predictions That Will Change The World

The 5 Predictions That Will Change The World

Science fiction films and books tend to make us imagine a better future, where certain technology that seems impossible to us have revolutionized the world. As we have already seen, the culture of science fiction has already foreseen events that are possible, such as cloning for example. In this logic, a recognized futurist philosopher Gray Scott decided to publish a top 5 predictions that would revolutionize the world.

 

Gray Scott explains that he is often asked about futuristic philosophy and that people tend to ask him what he thinks would be the top predictions for the future. He, therefore, decided to devote an entire article to it.

 

THE DEVELOPMENT OF TRANSHUMANISM BY 2035

Scott explains that in 2035, even though many humans will not identify as trans humans (meaning human beings with body parts composed of other materials or technology), they will be. According to Transparency Market Research, the market for medical implants will rise by 8% between 2012 and 2018. These include cardiovascular, breast, and dental implants, and eye lenses.

 

But the most interesting are the implants that should be developed in the years to come, such as exoskeletons controlled directly by the brain, digital implants, bionic muscles, or even implants for improving intellectual performance.

 

Gray Scott explains, arguing with the words of evolutionary psychologist Dr. Nigel Barber that we are in the development of acceptance of these bio-human technologies and this should continue. This state of affairs is mainly due to the development of education and technology in our daily lives. The development of atheism also plays in favor of this acceptance of technology, with religious principles intervening less and less in technology and biotechnology.

 

TRANSHUMANISM

CONNECTED OBJECTS WILL ALLOW HUMAN CONTACT AND INTERACTION

In recent years, connected objects have gradually invaded our daily lives, and as we saw during CES 2014, it is not ready to stop. We observe the development of many connected objects such as socks, underwear, technical clothing, or even connected toothbrushes and other life assistants. We have even seen the appearance of connected sex toys for remote interaction with your partner. Gray Scott considers that this is only the beginning and that this type of technology will continue to develop in a still "sensitive" perspective. Indeed, he imagines clothes of the future as a "haptic skin", a kind of second skin interacting with ours. It will not only be able to detect the stimuli we send, but also send them to us. With this in mind, he imagines, for example, being able to remotely send a hug to a loved one for his birthday, for instance—a future where technology will be at the service of a softer world full of emotions.

 

HUMAN CONTACT AND INTERACTION

ARTIFICIAL WOMBS TO GIVE BIRTH TO BABIES BY 2033

Delivering viable babies is totally artificial wombs sounds like pure science fiction, but in reality, we are not that far off. Indeed, Yoshinori Kuwabara of Juntendo University in Tokyo and his team managed to grow goat fetuses for 10 days. Additionally, Dr. Hung-Ching Liu of Cornell University succeeded in creating endometrial tissue by stimulating cells in an artificial uterus.

 

ARTIFICIAL WOMBS

It would seem that Japan is the first country to practice birth via artificial uterus. Not only because they are pioneers in the field, but also because the country faces the "celibacy syndrome", sekkusu shinai shogun in Japanese. Indeed, the Japanese Family Planning Association has identified that 45% of women aged 16-24 "are not interested in or despise sexual contact". In addition, the United Nations has estimated that the Japanese population will be reduced to 108 million instead of the current 128 million by 2050.

 

SMARTPHONES WILL BE REPLACED BY AUGMENTED REALITY

While connected glasses, the best known of which are currently Google Glass, are still in their infancy, Gray Scott predicts that they will however be our future. He explains that in the future our micro computing technologies will no longer be mainly concentrated in our smartphones but augmented reality glasses. And it could be in an even more accomplished, miniature form. Indeed, The Ghent University's Center of Microsystems Technology in Belgium recently developed curved LCD screens. We can therefore already imagine lenses, rather than connected glasses.

 

Scott goes on to explain that everyone will be able to create their reality with the interactions and information they want and need when they want it. He concludes by saying that the information will be instantly available in our vision of the future.

 

AUGMENTED REALITY

HUMANS WILL BE ABLE TO GET YOUNGER BY 2025

This is a dream that many have developed and this for millennia: eternal youth, rejuvenation, the beauty of 20 years forever… Gray Scott is convinced that rejuvenation will be possible within fifteen years. Several scientific studies suggest that he is not necessarily wrong. Indeed, according to a study published in Cell, American and Australian researchers have succeeded in causing a rejuvenation of a mouse muscle. Indeed, they were able to observe that the increase in NAD+ could resorb metabolic dysfunctions in old mice. They were able to see that the age indicators of the mouse increased to 6 months when they initially gave the mouse 2 years. This would represent for man the equivalent of rejuvenation from 60 years to 20 years. These researchers hope to be able to test the principle on humans in 2014.

 

This would be an extremely impressive and in some cases very positive scientific advance. However, it would also generate many problems and questions, calling into question the very principle of the life of humans and humanity.

HUMANS WILL BE ABLE TO GET YOUNGER