The world of work in The vision of the future for workers tends to scale from a nihilistic view of the robots taking our jobs leaving us permanently trapped indoors, living entirely from Amazon Prime supplies , through to the utopia of the eradication of repetitive tasks using artificial intelligence. This will leave humans free to think, create and act while never needing to leave your home…thanks to improved teleworking and those highly convenient Amazon delivery drones.
Predicted by: Ian Pearson. Ian has been a full-time futurologist for over 25 years, tracking and predicting developments across a wide range of technology, business, society, politics and the environment. We see a picket line of robots in the city center. Their placards are plastered with slogans written in binary code.
The widespread development of robots and artificial intelligence have necessitated the creation of a legal framework to protect them to regulate the rights of intelligent robots. Subsequently, this code is constantly updated and improved so robots have improving rights in our society.
Personal assistants PAs have rapidly developed throughout the 21st century. To begin with, they could only answer primitive questions: in , voice assistants were as dumb as a box of rocks.
This led to half of all office activities being automated: PAs began to take minutes, write post-meeting reports, summarize lengthy documents, and consciously digest and recapitulate the contents of messages.
They also plan your day, schedule meetings and even order lunch. However, a specially trained AI psychologist is on hand to help us cope.
Predicted by: Mersey Shelley is a pseudonym of Alexey Andreyev, writer and futurologist, who works for Kaspersky. In decades past, palms and fingers were scanned for identification. Now, hands with implanted sensors become the scanners themselves. These implants come in different models with two main variations: first, a simple scanner for daily use.
It helps to read different tags and product codes, and to exchange digital business cards via the handshake ritual you can use face recognition to identify a stranger but this is considered indecent; besides, many people use protection to prevent recognition. Hats with special veils are popular. Second, sophisticated scanners for technicians and other professionals. In other words, a new normal will emerge in how we can manage cancer. We will see more early and proactive screening with improved diagnostics innovation, such as in better genome sequencing technology or in liquid biopsy, that promises higher ease of testing, higher accuracy and ideally at an affordable cost.
Early detection and intervention in common cancer types will not only save lives but reduce the financial and emotional burden of late discovery. We will also see a revolution in treatment propelled by technology. Gene editing and immunotherapy that bring fewer side effects will have made greater headway. With advances in early screening and treatment going hand in hand, cancer will no longer be the cursed 'C' word that inspires such fear among people. Historically, robotics has turned around many industries, while a few select sectors - such as grocery retail - have remained largely untouched.
With the use of a new robotics application called 'microfulfillment', Grocery retailing will no longer look the same. Retailers will operate at a higher order of magnitude on productivity, which will in turn result in positive and enticing returns in the online grocery business unheard of at the moment.
This technology also unlocks broader access to food and a better customer proposition to consumers at large: speed, product availability and cost. We predict that value will be equally captured by retailers and consumers as online.
One thing the current pandemic has shown us is how important technology is for maintaining and facilitating communication - not simply for work purposes, but for building real emotional connections. The line between physical space and virtual will forever be blurred. At the beginning of the COVID pandemic we saw a lot in the news about concerns over the security of video conferencing companies.
By , the lines separating culture, information technology and health will be blurred. Engineering biology, machine learning and the sharing economy will establish a framework for decentralising the healthcare continuum, moving it from institutions to the individual. Propelling this forward are advances in artificial intelligence and new supply chain delivery mechanisms, which require the real-time biological data that engineering biology will deliver as simple, low-cost diagnostic tests to individuals in every corner of the globe.
As a result, morbidity, mortality and costs will decrease in acute conditions, such as infectious diseases, because only the most severe cases will need additional care. Fewer infected people will leave their homes, dramatically altering disease epidemiology while decreasing the burden on healthcare systems. A corresponding decrease in costs and increase in the quality of care follows, as inexpensive diagnostics move expenses and power to the individual, simultaneously increasing the cost-efficiency of care.
Inextricable links between health, socio-economic status and quality of life will begin to loosen, and tensions that exist by equating health with access to healthcare institutions will dissipate.
From daily care to pandemics, these converging technologies will alter economic and social factors to relieve many pressures on the global human condition. Construction will become a synchronized sequence of manufacturing processes, delivering control, change and production at scale.
It will be a safer, faster and more cost-effective way to build the homes, offices, factories and other structures we need to thrive in cities and beyond.
As rich datasets are created across the construction industry through the internet of things, AI and image capture, to name a few, this vision is already coming to life. Using data to deeply understand industry processes is profoundly enhancing the ability of field professionals to trust their instincts in real-time decision making, enabling learning and progress while gaining trust and adoption. Actionable data sheds light where we could not see before, empowering leaders to manage projects proactively rather than reactively.
Precision in planning and execution enables construction professionals to control the environment, instead of it controlling them, and creates repeatable processes that are easier to control, automate, and teach.
A scale up of negative emission technologies, such as carbon dioxide removal, will remove climate-relevant amounts of CO2 from the air.
This will be necessary in order to limit global warming to 1. While humanity will do everything possible to stop emitting more carbon into the atmosphere, it will also do everything it can in order to remove historic CO2 from the air permanently. By becoming widely accessible, the demand for CO2 removal will increase and costs will fall. CO2 removal will be scaled up to the gigaton-level, and will become the responsible option for removing unavoidable emissions from the air. It will empower individuals to have a direct and climate-positive impact on the level of CO2 in the atmosphere.
It will ultimately help to prevent global warming from reaching dangerous levels and give humanity the potential to reverse climate change. Medicine has always been on a quest to gather more knowledge and understanding of human biology for better clinical decision-making. AI is that new tool that will enable us to extract more insights at an unprecedented level from all the medical 'big data' that has never really been fully taken advantage of in the past.
It will shift the world of medicine and how it is practiced. Improvements in AI will finally put access to wealth creation within reach of the masses. Financial advisors, who are knowledge workers, have been the mainstay of wealth management: using customized strategies to grow a small nest egg into a larger one. Since knowledge workers are expensive, access to wealth management has often meant you already need to be wealthy to preserve and grow your wealth. As a result, historically, wealth management has been out of reach of those who needed it most.
Artificial intelligence is improving at such a speed that the strategies employed by these financial advisors will be accessible via technology, and therefore affordable for the masses. Over the next five years, the energy transition will reach a tipping point. Also, if you speak your destination into your flying car, it will take you there correctly, safely, and in a timely manner, obeying the flying rules, and waking you up when your biometric sensors indicate that you need a bio break.
But, even better than having to talk to your gadgets, will we be able to just think about what we want? Electroencephalograms EEGs are already very commonly used for brain diagnostics and consciousness research.
But the level of electric signals detected at the surface of the head is low and is just an indication of what is going on inside the brain. Some researchers like the Brazilian neuroscientist, Dr.
Miguel Nicolelis , have created brain-machine interfaces that can help people to regain limb movement and to control devices. Of course, for someone who is paralyzed and can move using this type of technology, this is fantastic and exists today. For this type of brain-machine interface to function for complex tasks, it's not enough to detect the electrical pulses outside the head, which means there must be sensors or devices inside the head.
Brain implants are not so desirable if you just want to control your car or play a video game. What could be really interesting in the future is to have some mechanism to access your thoughts without being so physically invasive and to correctly interpret those thoughts. Capturing information from a brain might not be the biggest challenge to overcome. The greater challenge is knowing exactly what to capture from the brain. We can focus our attention on no more than 50 bits of information per second , due to the action of the prefrontal cortex.
That happens to protect the brain from being overloaded because your body's environment generates 11 million bits of information per second for the brain to process. Everything that you hear, smell, see, feel, and remember. Everything that your organs are telling you and everything that's happening inside and around you. But you only notice these things if you pay attention, to autonomic processes such as breathing, salivating, and digesting.
It's really a huge amount of information to process, and when we tap into that, interpretation and contextualization will be crucial if we want to use it to control things in the external world.
Just imagine someone giving instructions to a flying car but at the same time getting a communication connection from someone who wants to fight.
This could present some problems. Devices like monitors and speakers are delivering information to our eyes and ears, but what if we could bypass these organs and put the images and sounds directly into the areas of the brain responsible for processing them?
Yes, we need a safe method to deliver the content but we don't want to send microwaves and fry the neurons. Also, we need to send that information at a pace that the brain can process.
Admitting the possibility of such a thing, nothing prevents us from also sending sensations, emotions, and even memories into someone's mind. If you're an entrepreneur you're probably visualizing mountains of money at this point. The things we could deliver for the purpose of work and for socially accepted content would be limitless. But also, other forms of entertainment would certainly be explored. There's also the possibility of placing unsavory thoughts, emotions, and memories into a person's mind.
We already hear about online retailers delivering goods via robots or drones. It seems it won't take long for this to become commonplace after air space regulations are figured out. You also need access to a runway or an open space for take-offs and landings.
The ideal flying vehicle should be able to take off vertically, be controlled mostly by auto-pilot, but also be listening to the mental commands of its occupants. Well, in the case of families or a pilot that isn't alone, there will need to exist some protocols like "Who controls this thing?
And of course, the car will need to be intelligent enough to avoid collisions with other flying cars, airplanes, delivery drones.
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