If, for instance, universal basic income and more robust welfare is in the cards, it will mean that the people will have more control over what they do in order to afford survival. That would be interesting. I think we will see the greatest job growth in the creative industries and service sector. I believe that the majority of agricultural and manufacturing jobs will become automated and therefore governments will have to find new sectors to create employment.
We will earn a living by the value we create for the society we live in. There will still be lots of passive income for people or corporations that own things—land, resources, digital networks—but for those who work with their hands, the future looks bleak. I think as software eats more and more jobs that involve monotonous routines, humans will work to provide that which makes us most human—empathy, connection, and companionship. The world is changing fast with the acceleration of AI and other new technology.
We will be human-machine hybrids basically what we are now via smartphones and do what we've always done: make copies of ourselves and entertain ourselves along the way. Most jobs will be leveraged by virtual reality, machine learning, and the internet of things and their descendants. Well, earning a living is another construct.
Jobs are a relatively recent phenomenon. They came about when small business was made essentially illegal in the late middle ages, and people were forced to work as employees for chartered monopolies. We will need people to manage climate, develop energy solutions, and educate children.
Hopefully there will be fewer people making stuff nobody would want without advertising to sell it. People will provide in-person services that cannot be outsourced and are tough to automate, like care and education; these also happen to be low-carbon jobs.
Jobs in clean energy, food, art, and entertainment will also continue to grow. Jobs that require judgment, creativity, and empathy will offer the greatest employment prospects for humans. Jobs that require pattern recognition and standardized behaviors—from manufacturing to banking to radiology—will be increasingly done by machines. Educating others will become an increasingly-valued pursuit, no matter what happens with technology. Learning and developing will always require human relationships, and our society will become more aware that how children develop from birth predicts the future of countries and our global society.
Frontline person-to-person jobs, such as school teachers, nurses, general practice doctors, psychologists, physical therapists, and sales people, will still be done by people.
The jobs that will be the most secure will be skilled trades, such as electricians, plumbers, welders, heating and air conditioning, fine carpentry work, and crafts. The hospital of the future will still need somebody to fix the broken plumbing. You will give up some control of your life, and that will be your payment into this world to exist.
It will be a near-perfect world of bliss and progress. The entrepreneurial bug is boring into every heart. In the recent past, it was only in the developing world that having multiple side gigs even when one is full-time employed was considered acceptable.
To do this, companies will strengthen their capability to incubate and trade the ideas and efforts of their brightest talents in a more empowering way.
When done badly, you get the Google self-driving car debacle. However, big consulting and advertising agencies have long understood and acclimatized to this reality. And seeing as they operate at the vanguard of the knowledge economy, we can only assume that they are the canaries in the mines of tomorrow. My hope is that people will be empowered to work more flexibly and earn a fair and equitable wage in more meaningful, fulfilling jobs.
The current generation wants something different in their workplace, companies need to adapt to that. In addition, while I believe all companies will have to be tech companies in order to be relevant 10 years from now, technology will be in service to humans employees, customers, partners — not a replacement for them.
Technology is a powerful tool that, at its best, enables people to do what they are uniquely good at, and to find their most fulfilling role being creative, applying judgement, building relationships. For example, our algorithms do the rote work of sifting through thousands of styles and fits, so stylists can focus on curation and creating a personal connection with clients. We will hopefully be able to contribute to society, to build, to connect, to give, and to create within a different economy of reward.
The robots will have arrived, fine-tuned to a degree of elegant automation. As people switch jobs 15 or more times in their lives, companies will be on the lookout for the ability to learn fast and be comfortable with change.
While the Gilded Age and the tech age will have glamorized the riches and spoils of mega-wealth, people will be willing to take lower pay for more meaningful work.
Compensation will not just be money and reputation, but new, more human- and values-centered metrics designed to help us measure our impact on society. In 50 years' time, you have to expect a lot of people worldwide will have some form of universal basic income.
The job ladder will have a natural shift upwards—what we usually consider skilled labor will be considered unskilled, and everything will shift upwards. Eventually AI will catch up to something that resembles creativity; then that'll have a similar shift where suddenly someone who is doing an entry-level design job will now just delegate that to an AI.
But then creative direction or oversight or editing is still a human endeavor. I think there's a counterpoint to the answer about jobs. If we end up settling new planets, we may find ourselves back to extremely low-level homesteading-type jobs where there will be people digging trenches and building structures on Mars and other planets like that.
Iit may be too expensive to bring all the robotic equipment with us, so we will be very quickly building robots to do more digging. There will be a Universal Basic Income. We will look back in horror that we hired human beings to do menial tasks such as scrubbing toilets in our homes. It will seem the moral equivalent of child labor. The coexistence of different models of value and revenue creation will become more visible than today. I think that in many marvelous and troubling ways, the physical and digital spaces will converge, and that this will really shift what we imagine are the gaps between us as human beings.
I think people will avoid large, mass-targeted social networks and be much more deliberate about where they say what, choosing even more closed and niche chambers for privacy. I think that we will use fewer words and written text to communicate with one another, especially when telling stories. I am fascinated by the use of memes for communication on social media.
Often, a well-used meme conveys a message or a feeling in ways that text alone cannot. Different languages have words that do not translate well into other languages, however facial expressions from video or photo are better able to communicate a specific feeling.
Online communication will remain dominant, and social media platforms will still lead in this sector. Disinformation, deception, harassment, and user-privacy concerns will be issues of the past thanks to news organizations and watchdog groups working together.
My hope is that we can engineer ways for people to communicate and connect on a deeper level than many of us are used to via social media updates and small talk. We, as humans, find much deeper meaning and joy when we bond over our dreams, our struggles, and our vulnerabilities—not over our latest vacation or the cool dish we just ordered out at dinner.
I hope that we still talk face-to-face when it matters—to me, there is no substitute for human connection. Technology is great for keeping in touch across long distances or in different parts of the world, but I would always rather be across the dinner table having a chat with my wife Joan than texting or on the phone. Hopefully, still in person! Maybe more gestures.
Our digital communication should likely move beyond text and emoji to something more gestural. Communication will be only through thoughts. Nothing else will exist for those that are uploaded into the cloud or live in quantum intelligence enclaves.
We are still very bad at communicating ideas. Information flow does not equate to ideas flow. Maintaining emotional connection when exploring complex ideas within large groups is extremely tough. The funny thing is that, contrary to what most people believe, emotions are more primitive routines and thus far susceptible to programming shortcuts than the more abstract parts of our vast cognitive spectrum. Some AI systems today can read facial cues better than trained psychologists but none can adapt math instruction to the pace of a struggling pupil.
So, how easy is it really to incorporate emotional cues into ideas transfer? One quick win is to use voice modulation in conferencing packages to manipulate moods. Computers that can smell fear, disgust, dislike and similar cues would naturally be countermanded by those that can generate fake feeling cues.
Will the bad outweigh the good? As already indicated, the more technically exciting challenge is how to visualize and symbolize complex ideas and to rapidly sync mindsets around the meeting table whilst doing so. Not even to our romantic interests. Human interaction will be dramatically reshaped, with both positive and negative consequences. We will have more options for digital communication i. The epoch of fear and isolation that defined the earlier part of the century will galvanize the development of new technologies to create better, more honest communication, and deeper connections.
Empathic technology will connect humans not only by verbal, auditory, and visual means, but also emotionally. Through technologies like quantum computing and artificial intelligence, we will be able to map neural activity and emotions, enabling communication of feelings directly between brains. We will have solved the epidemic of loneliness and moved way past the trap of the attention economy and social media likes. At home, empathic technologies will deepen our bonds—divorce rates will go down, teenagers will start dating more again and have more sex , and cities will be known for how easily their residents make friends.
We have seen technological developments disrupt the ways we traditionally communicated with each other and go about our daily lives. Social media has changed the way we develop communities and has connected us with people we otherwise would never have met. Online communities are going to continue to play a major role in how people come together. In fact, it will likely be the primary factor in bringing people together. I am starting to see this firsthand with Waze Carpool.
Our future society is going to see more online communities transition into the real world, and digital platforms will be the mechanism used to forge real-life human interactions. We will communicate with each other through a chip in our eyes. There will be no need to speak, just think and blink to talk.
The final destination will be direct brain-to-brain communication. Basically cutting into the feed of optical nerve, cutting into the feed of the olfactory—all the things that feed into the brain, we'll first learn how to stimulate those directly and then we'll start reading the brain and feeding it information.
Male and female pronouns will disappear. Despite radical technological advances, we will cycle back to value person-to-person contact. We will see that friendship, compassion, and solidarity amongst human beings and communities of concern cannot be replaced by virtual means. In many ways, the video game industry may be what will push the world over that edge. Also, art. There are new people and new times, and so there will always be new ways and methods to say the same old things: that we hate one another, that we love one another, that we want to connect, and that we want to escape this reality and find new spaces in the universe in which we can try and start over, to do life differently.
It will get ugly quickly. Already by , the average African will have a supercomputer in their pocket that will make the first iPhone appear to them as a horse and carriage do to an astronaut. Consumers will command technologies that make them participants and producers at the same time. This will extend far beyond media and entertainment industries already witnessing the collapse of those old categories. I if I am still around will be able to modify and mash up the 3D printing template bought from a company or individual, and sell on that creative product via micro-payments, which will go through yet more variation.
Ironically for those who celebrate this democratization, the act of creation will become less valued and more mundane, as it shifts from the work of gods to daily efforts of humans. I believe screens will fade out of existence, though augmented reality will certainly be part of our daily lives. Today, our ancient drives—healthy drink yeast-killing pathogens and food, mating, hunting, teaching stories —have become hyper-amplified to substance abuse, obesity, porn, spectator sports, and click-bait.
In 50 years, we will either exaggerate these further, or use biology or electronics to curb our urges, or to direct them to more modern needs. The way we laugh and entertain each other will stick around. I think people will become reacquainted with analog, real-world forms of entertainment, like hanging out with other people, talking, touching, and playing.
People may even play music together, or make art or theater, not for money but for fun. We will continue to gather, often over food, in our homes and communities. On one level, this has never changed. As a species, we shall always like set pieces. We want to experience great feats of the imagination together and revel in the knowledge of the unspoken but deeply shared subjective waves they trigger.
Real entertainment for our species has always been about the transfer of adrenaline, laughing together, discussing afterwards etc. In Rome, the city had to divert resources from important social projects to free circuses for this very reason. The truth though is that in recent times, the costs of developing large spectacles in sports, cinema, concerts and the like have been inflated by the bargaining power of professionals. More digital tools might bring more amateurs into the mix and reduce the influence of the big studios, promoters and impresarios.
Digital technologies that can bring down the cost of spectacle entertainment are still relatively underdeveloped because the focus has been on animation more than animatronics, and mechanisms to optimize the real estate of enchantment. But spectacle is first and foremost about physical ambience. Tackle football will be seen as barbaric, akin to gladiator combat.
It will be replaced by flag football. Baseball will be seen as too slow and archaic, and will be about as popular as badminton is now. Esports will get Super Bowl-sized ratings. We will finally move the entire food supply to breakfast tacos, the finest culinary invention of all time. Broadly speaking, the future is going to be delicious, if for no other reason than that more and more people are going to demand food with flavor and nutrition, and food with a story.
There is no turning back to the food I grew up with in the s and s, which was about overly processed and packaged foods. More specifically, the future is going to bring plant breeders into the conversation. Plant breeders, the people who create new varieties of fruits, vegetables, and grains, are the real architects of our food system.
Unfortunately, much of their work is dictated by the handful of agricultural giants who control the seed industry. That means selecting for yield and uniformity above all else—a seed planted in New York is expected to perform the same as it does in Mexico or even China. In the future, we will be breeding fruits and vegetables that are better suited for their local ecology, better adapted for organic farming systems, and of course, for better flavor.
Fresh and organically-grown food will really become a luxury, even more than now. The Jetsons-style add-water-and-stir nightmare will be sold as affordable and convenient, while real texture and flavor may become things only real money can buy. As such, perhaps the real luxury will be food that can rot. More plant-based options. Real meat will be treated as a delicacy to be enjoyed sporadically.
For health reasons, we will integrate more plant-based options or meat alternatives into our daily diets. We will have the equivalent of the replicator of Starship Enterprise Star Trek and we would be able to print food customized to our specific diet, palate, and nutritional needs. A more limited diet, meat and fish for the wealthy, rationing for the less wealthy.
More homegrown food as climate change hits large agriculture. People will eat less meat, and far less industrially-farmed meat as safer alternatives get more traction. I believe unconventional food sources will become more conventional, and that nutritious, plant-based food will replace animal products in a lot of ingredient lists.
I also hope we will grow food in even more sustainable ways, that urban farming will grow, as will more regenerative farming practices that adapt to local ecology, enhance biodiversity, and draw down carbon from the atmosphere.
So I think there is going to be a push for more awareness around the US food industry and a better understanding of how our food is made. That will lead to better global health. Hopefully, more plants.
As the health benefits of a local, seasonal diet become more clear, we should be taxing the environment a lot less as well. Food will be designed not just for our taste buds, but our microbiomes—the bacteria and other microbes that inhabit the human body.
Nutrition will be revolutionized as medical research that better understands how the human body is not a single organism, but a colony of millions of organisms that affect immunity, disease, and longevity. There will be no eating, no breathing, no drinking, no using the bathroom. The flesh will be gone, paving the way for the exploration of how intelligent we can become. When it comes to our ability to control what diets do to our bodies, we are much more advanced than our Iron-Age ancestors.
Over the years, the fads have come and gone, but one desire has been fairly constant: foods that actively condition the body chemistry. In that regard, two main areas of exploration have been most intense: mood enhancement foods that make us feel good about ourselves and metabolism regulation foods that leave little trace on our physical form.
The esoteric and obscure sources of the ingredients serve to mask their artificiality. Food will in fact look and feel remarkably similar to what we eat today—but will come from radically different sources. We will eat meat and dairy grown in alternative forms, produced and scaled through plants and bioengineering processes.
Agriculture and food will change more in the next 50 years than they have in the last 10, years. We now have the tools to engineer slaughter-free meats and fish.
Cell-based meats sometimes called lab-grown meats will be commercially available at competitive price points in the next five to 10 years. Food production technologies will continue to improve, with hydroponic farms like Plenty producing incredible, fresh produce not grown in fields sparing both the beneficial insects and animals.
Inexpensive, delicious, and incredibly nutritious foods will be expected and delivered on even the most meager budgets, thanks to technology and biotechnology worldwide. With the rise of intelligent AI, we will more and more come to appreciate the difference between intelligence and consciousness. Although animals will increasingly be recognized for their own forms of intelligence, their right to life springs from their sentience, their status as conscious creatures. Our diets will be a mix of natural and synthetic foods.
Red meat consumption will be curbed to reduce methane emissions, and we will eat more plant-based foods. Cows and pigs will become more companion animals, admired for their intelligence and connection to humans, than livestock. While meals as social rituals will continue, in 50 years, designers will be creating new modes of dining, like personalized elixirs and plates, based on precision nutrition.
Inspired by foods as new materials, designers will entrench what we eat into our immediate environs. No longer just relegated to backyard gardens, our shift to plant-based diets will be embedded in our everyday spaces. Public schools will be on farms, where, as part of new federal nutrition programs, kids will take home produce for dinner.
Rather than snacking from vending machines, cities will have buildings covered with vertical gardens, where passersby can pluck fresh snacks. After we eat all the animals there will only be vegetables left to eat.
Some people will live on pill supplements. A lot more plants. We will eat plants that provide the same proteins you get now from dairy and meat. Someone is going to figure out how to put B12 in a crop. It will be in mung beans, something akin to that—a legume. That research will be done by big agricultural companies, in my prediction, it will not be done by hippies in a garage. It will be high-tech research that will lead to these developments in agriculture.
We will eat FAR less meat for reasons of cost including the price on carbon that will absolutely be in place in 50 years.
Society will have immense awareness of the animal experience in the human food chain and increased empathy for animals, thus, decreasing demand for meat—even in China. In the future, we will need to take more supplements because of depletion in the soil where we grow our food.
While soil condition is slowly on its way back to health, climate impacts like drought will mean we need more synthetic vitamins and minerals for normal human development. As we become more aware of potential food shortages and more self-reliant, things we now see as unusual, like eating from rooftop and pocket gardens, will become more common. Meat grown in laboratories from animal cells will have replaced meat from factory farms and live animals.
This cultured meat will also revolutionize cuisine. There will even be a fringe movement to embrace Ethical Cannibalism. We will have a choice of how long we live.
Two hundred years ago, the average global life expectancy was about Today it is 72, and over 80 in some wealthy countries. In 50 years, as life extends ever further, many more generations will exist alongside each other. At the same time, instant, universal, and rich communication technologies will ensure that a wider matrix of bonds is made constantly present and vivid. Instead of lamenting the decline of the two-generation nuclear family, we will speak of the explosion of the five-generation extended family.
Death will come to us all, still. But it will take longer, and there will be more people at our funeral, albeit many via hologram. We will choose whether we want to initiate a lightweight legal process that enables us to terminate our own life with dignity, control, and minimal discomfort. Solar flares, supervolcanoes, and asteroids, since genetic diseases, accidents, infections, and probably aging can be eliminated.
I guess how we die depends on who we are. The majority of deaths will be climate-related. Cholera in flood zones, mass murder of migrant populations, starvation, and heat-related deaths. If we assume that the vast majority of the planet will be facing the direct brunt of the climate crisis, that will be most of the deaths. I suppose people in other regions will be dealing more with the spread of diseases— things from Ebola to mad cow disease.
With dignity. We will enjoy our final years in our homes and communities, surrounded by caring people who understand that aging and dying are a part of life. There will be no death, even if we want to die.
We will be able to turn ourselves off for periods of time, but even through quantum archaeology, we may be recreated many times, in many realities. We will still die. But we will die much older than we are now, by as much as one or two decades. In short, we will run and run like the Energizer bunny, for the most part healthy and strong, until we suddenly stop at perhaps as much as years.
We will achieve this through: a detecting and preventing chronic diseases far earlier than we do now, before they wreak irreversible destruction in our bodies; b a deep understanding of the processes and functions by which aging happens, which in turn makes us susceptible to chronic disease; and c using that understanding of aging to develop key factors like proteins or small molecules that we will use to dramatically slow down or stave off aging for much longer.
Finally, when we do die, thanks to the decentralization and unbundling of all the functions of the hospital as we know it today, we will die at home, in our own beds, peacefully surrounded by family and monitored and supported by a fabric of invisible technology woven into the home all around us.
We will still die of accidents, suicides, homicides, advanced old age, plus new and occasionally old diseases. But death in 50 years will be a very different experience. The reasons why we die today—of cancer, infectious disease, and organ failure—will be, in many ways, treatable. I expect humans to regularly live to plus years of healthy old age, perhaps even exceeding several hundred years of age.
But as always, as medicine evolves, new diseases do emerge and new infectious diseases evolve too. With medical advances over the last century or so, death has, for the most part, been removed from our daily lives and pushed into the hospital for our final moments. Between climate disasters and the growth of end-of-life care, death will become less something to be feared.
The stigma around death will have passed; instead, death will become as celebrated as birth. The funeral industry disruption that started when millennials began burying their parents will continue, becoming more human and family-centered through design. Here are 10 predictions for the future world:.
Underground roads: Underground means of transport that are capable of traveling at the speed of sound will be developed. These roads established on the tube system will be linked to each other. For example, this tube system will connect the U. Underground skyscrapers: These multistory buildings that will be built underground will be earthquake resistant and offer many living spaces like home, office, shopping centers and gyms.
Self-cleaning houses: When you are not at home or you are sleeping, technology will be developed that will clean the house via a button. Space hotels: Journeys to the moon and other planets will be possible. These journeys will be performed with a system that will adapt to the gravity of each planet.
Organs that are 3D will be produced to change organs or make them function better. Bug-burger takeaways: In the next 50 years, bugs will be the most important protein sources for people.
Mind-melded families would be greater than the sum of its parts. Of course, an assembly of interconnected minds need not be limited to just family members; friends and colleagues could join in as well, leading to highly interconnected and intimate communities that would exhibit very hive-like behavior. This could very well represent the future family.
A recent breakthrough by researchers at the Center for Neuroengineering at Duke University shows this future may be close than we think. In their experiment, the researchers connected the brains of monkeys with electrodes, allowing them to coordinate their thoughts to carry out basic tasks, like pattern recognition and moving a robotic limb.
Remarkably, similar work has even been done in humans here and here , though less invasively. Imagine a mind-uploaded family, or a family comprised of emulated brains called ems that reside and interact within a powerful supercomputer.
These virtual beings would live as avatars within elaborate simulated environments. Depending on the resources available, these digital families could consist of duplicates that run into the hundreds or thousands of copied individuals. Many of these ems could go on to form new and independent family units, particularly if their source code starts to deviate and drift.
The concept of the family, at least we know it, could very well come to an end. The A. What if all our screens, everywhere, were a two-way networked system that turns the Earth into a digital room with everyone in it?
Can that world be designed and built now, without waiting generations for that future to arrive? If your future devices were continuous, your control over all your devices, and the continuous digital world they could open for you, could Expand exponentially. You switch between multiple screens. All sorts of things are in front of you — with you.
They could be people, services or places. They could be apps or software, digital content books, TV shows, movies, music, recorded videos and more , games or live video from events worldwide. They could even be other devices and sources you control remotely. Your digital life will always be on, always open, always yours. Then switch again. Always ready for you to use in whatever ways you want. Technology is about to move much faster and converge with entertainment, until life is entertainment and entertainment is life.
Or dare I say it, your lives. In the Expandiverse, you will become used to your chosen digital realities being displayed and processed without effort. Multiple screens, multiple identities and multiple transformed video, audio and music feeds will simply appear and you will appear in them.
Much of your life is already you-centered. You choose your private or public audiences. They can use your creation, or appear in it. Or you decide to be the audience and appear inside your digital world. For example, Expandiverse technology includes a workaround to death.
Would you consider enjoying multiple lives in parallel? In the Expandiverse your life is truly yours. The pyramid of scarcity: Scarce knowledge, scarce resources, scarce opportunities, and scarce education have kept society as a pyramid.
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