Then I started wondering what our children and grand-children would witness in their lifetimes. How would the future of mankind be let us say in the coming few decades and in the next hundred years to come although it may have been true that predictions made 50 years ago have not exactly fallen through. We definitely make what advancements are possible based on what exists now and what the thinkers of our times envisage mankind to be in the coming 50/100 years.
Future Living:
When it comes to constructing residences we can be sure that algorithms fed into a computer shall deliver 3D Printouts of villas with swarms of drones capable of lifting them anywhere, and placing them on new locations, by the end of next decade. Our young grandsons will see sensors in these houses almost for everything governed by internet to control temperature and shades of colour on walls through lighting to suit your mood. High strength carbon nano-tubes will be used to construct immense arcologies (very huge structures which will dwarf todays skyscrapers) around 2030’s. There will be sub-aqueous structures that will split water into oxygen and hydrogen for breathing and energy requirements in the decade thereafter.
The Food You Eat
In the thirties cultured meat will replace animal meat and served with an ipod that emanates music increasing the taste-buds of the person eating (certain frequency makes food tastier). Algae farming shall be carried out for use as alternative fuel. Vegetarian meat will be manufactured by separating proteins from starch and bran by rinsing wheat and then used as a burger product. A refrigerator may not just tell you what it contents, it may even tell you what all can be cooked out of it.
In the 40’s cost of raising cattle will be very high. 1400 species of edible insects (sold not as insects but as mini-livestock) could become staple diet in the form of burgers and sausages. I see our sons and grandsons eating these burgers in their college canteens over a conversation of what’s happening on Mars.
By the 50’s the quantity of food required would increase by 70%. Cereals should rise from 2.1 billion tonnes to 3 billion today. Meat production needs will rise from the present 270 million tonnes to 470 mllion tonnes.
Health
By the end of the next decade homes will come with standard walk in medical capsules capable of multispectral scanning for disease or damage. Complicated surgeries will be carried out by robots with precision with robots and humans forming a team. There will be epatients who are constantly connected with their doctors through sensors attached to their bodies and monitored through smartphones for treatment and care..
In the decade after that 3D printers will manufacture medical equipment, prostheses, or even drugs. They will also play a vital role in regenerative medicine, to create tissues with blood vessels, bone, heart valves, ear cartilage, synthetic skin, and even organs. This will further increase the life-spans of our great grandsons and they may survive on an average a 100 year life.
The decade of the 2060’s will see a disease free world coming forth where no one ever dies from an adverse drug reaction; where physicians have an entire range of medicines to choose from to treat a deadly disease.
Transport
Magnetic levitation trains will operate in the next decade and in the decade of the thirties battery operated driverless cars and buses along-with hyperloop trains at 800 miles per hour will be routine transport in megacities.
In the 40’s flying cars will rule the air borne roads. Accidents in the air will see debris falling on the less congested roads below creating a hazard. Sub-orbital space flight may reduce flying time ridiculously requiring special spacecraft and travellers requiring space suits when travelling in space.
In the 70’s Carbon nano-tubes will connect the surface of earth with space.
Robotised Life
Using the Web as a communication tool, people with aspirations may be able to find an audience more easily than ever before. It may not be long until a relatively unknown person uses the Internet social media to win enough support to be able to create a cliché for him.
By the 30’s difference between man and machine will seize to exist. Gradually robots will replace humans in many fields especially in services sector in malls and restaurants. By 2040’s robots will outsmart humans.
Communication
Mobile apps will take over human life and machine to machine communication will start.
Not long thereafter you may wear a wrist-watch that produces a 3D image right in front of your eyes to watch a movie.
Astronautics
By the end of 2030’s robots will be used in space.
By the mid 40’s there would be a Mars base. Huge telescopes more than 100 mtr diameter will see clearly in space, may be life on exoplanets.
In the late 50’s advanced propulsion systems are expected to increase speed of space travel. The speed would be to the tune of 1000 kms per second (3600000 kmph). We will land on Jupiters moons Enceladus and Europa and on Saturns moon Titan.
By the 60’s we should see the colonisation of Mars. Later in another decades time we should see terraforming on Mars to make its environment Earth-like.
In a hundred years from now we could see orbital colonies.
Environmental
This is the most critical aspect environmentalists are bother today at the rate at which the temperature of the Earth is increasing we start to see a bleak future. By the 50’s some of them predict famines. By the 60’s we could see depletion of resources unless and until we tap the resources on the asteroids and other moons.
In another 90 years global warming magnitude will catch up like never before. 30% species will be extinct due to human population encroaching and climate change.
In the beginning of the next century there could be a nuclear war as there would be a resource crunch. Predict some futurologists.
Population Menace
The world population as of July 2017 is 7.3 billion. Out of this 36% is populated in China and India alone. The population would be 8.5 billion in 2030. It would be 9.7 billion by 2050 and 11.2 billion by 2100 a 53% rise by 2017 figures. Does the Earth have the resources to sustain such a population over time. The answer is difficult unless and until we have alternate resources.
Behavorial patterns will be impersonal in the coming decades and as urbanisation and technology takes over people will lose contact with nature. New viruses will arrive and diseases will increase.
