How will be the life in the future?

Technologically, the 20-year jump from 2015 to 2035 will be huge. During that time
some elements of our world will change beyond recognition while others will stay
reassuringly (or disappointingly) familiar. Consider the 20 years to 2015. Back in
1995 we were in the early days of the internet, we worked in cubicles and our
computers were chunky and powered by Windows 95. There were no touch
screen phones or flat screen TVs; people laughed at the idea of reading electronic
books, and watching a home movie meant loading a clunky cassette into your
VCR. So, what will our world really be like 20 years from now? What does the future
hold for the food we eat, the technology we use and the homes we live in? It
would be tempting to roll out the clichés – food pills, flying cars and bases on the
moon – but the reality will probably be less exciting. The world in 2035 will probably
be much like it is today, but smarter and more automatic. Some innovations we
might not notice, while others will knock us sideways, changing our lives forever.

The internet has forever changed the way people meet and fall in love. Online
dating and location-based services such as Vine, Snapchat and Grindr have
opened up possibilities that allow people to look beyond their immediate friends,
friends of friends, and co-workers.

We are becoming more independent and less constrained by the old social
norms. This will have an impact on the relationships we form, with fewer people
choosing traditional marriage, a rise in official (and unofficial) civil partnerships,
and more people remaining single for longer, if not forever.

Dr Helen Fisher, a senior research fellow at The Kinsey Institute for research in sex,
gender and reproduction and an adviser to dating website Match.com, thinks she
knows where relationships are heading.

‘Singles are ushering into vogue an extended pre-commitment stage of courtship,’

she wrote in The Wall Street Journal. ‘With hooking up, friends with benefits, and
living together, they are getting to know a partner long before they tie the knot.
Where marriage used to be the beginning of a partnership, it’s becoming the
finale. ‘Any prediction of the future should take into account the unquenchable,
adaptable and primordial human drive to love,’ she added. ‘To bond is human.
This drive most likely evolved more than four million years ago, and email and
computers won’t stamp it out.’

The future of work

Rather than humans working with machines, automation is likely to make some
jobs redundant: taxi drivers replaced by self-driving Uber cars; receptionists
replaced by robots; doctors outclassed by algorithms that can plug into vast
medical databases; and travel agents wiped out by trip-planning, flight-booking
web services.

Obviously, there will also be new jobs created: the computer engineer/mechanic
who fixes the self-driving Uber taxis; programmers; genome mappers and
bioengineers; space tour guides; and vertical farmers. Technology will continue to
disrupt businesses and eliminate jobs, creating new professions we can’t yet
envisage.

Those of us who work probably won’t do so in a traditional office either. We’re

already seeing a shift in the definition of work: it’s now a task you perform, not a
place you go to. Productivity is no longer measured by sitting at a desk. There’s no
nine to five. No job for life.

The future of health

Prevention will become the focus as we gain greater control of our health
information, using self-monitoring biosensors and smart watches to continuously
gather fitness data; web apps will crunch the data, syncing to electronic health
records. Using these numbers, companies will be able to build a model of your
overall health that can predict future problems. Being forewarned, patients will be
able to take action early, changing lifestyle habits or taking designer drugs tailored
to their individual DNA.

The future of technology

Technology underpins everything we’ve looked at so far – food, health,

relationships and work. We’re heading into a future where improved battery
technology will enable better electric cars, personal flying machines, Hyperloop
transportation systems, private space tourism and drone delivery services. We’ll
wear Band Aid-style fitness sensors on our skin, charge our devices using wireless
power, let algorithms optimise and guard our homes, and have virtual assistants
(the next generation of Google Now, Siri and Cortana) to help us manage the
flood of data and make sense of it.

Some of this might happen. Or none of it. Three things, however, are certain:
technology will get smaller, smarter and cheaper. In fact, it will get so small, smart
and cheap that we’ll be able to put computers and sensors into almost anything –
fridges will tell us when we’ve run out of milk, bins will tell the council when they’re
full, 4K televisions will notice when we’ve stopped watching and turn themselves
off to save power. We’re on the road to the internet of things where everything is
connected, not only to the internet but also to one another.

Link: www.suncorp.com.au/super/.../your-future/what-will-life-be-2035
 5 predictions for what life will be like

1. Say goodbye to your screens: Today’s virtual reality headsets are used for
consumer entertainment, yet they are bulky and isolating. In the future, Light
Field Displays may eliminate the need for a headset or display altogether,
projecting 4D images directly onto your retinas from a point of focus. These
devices may eventually be as unobtrusive as a pair of sunglasses. As next-gen
“displays” replace our TVs, iPads and phone screens, the $3 trillion consumer
electronics industry will reinvent itself.
2. Say hello to your pet “Crispy”: CRISPR (Continuous Regularly Interspersed
Short Palindromic Repeats) is a biochemist’s way of saying that we can cheaply
and reliably edit genes. Today, cat lovers crave exotic breeds, such as the
toyger. Tomorrow, your family pet may be a genetically engineered tiger, yet
the size of a common housecat. Should regulatory bodies ban CRISPR
technologies in humans, underground labs will flourish worldwide, as parents
aim to eliminate congenital genetic disorders or give their kids a heritable
advantage in school and life. This will create new disparities and stigmas.
3. Biofacturing – growing organs and skyscrapers: Perhaps the single most
disruptive change will follow developments in genetic engineering, as
bacteria, algae and other cells become the factories of tomorrow. If you
like the idea of being vegetarian, but love meat, perhaps you can be
“degan” and only eat meat that was produced without killing. Today,
companies like Beyond Meat and Memphis Meats are perfecting deathless
protein.
4. Ads – a necessary evil: Someone has to pay for all of this change, and it is
still going to be us in the form of targeted advertising. Your communications
device, or whatever replaces functions currently served by today’s cell
phone, may be free or heavily subsidized. But you won’t be able to skip the
latest immersive advertising, at least without paying a fee. You will be more
connected than ever before, though advertisers will find clever ways to
influence your behavior, based on the same biometric technology that
monitors your health.
5. The age of implantables: As our world changes, scientists believe that humans’
brains will continue to get bigger, our lifespans will increase, and our cultures will
continue to evolve and merge as we adapt to new environments.

Link: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/10/tech-life-predictions-for-2030/
 What life will be like in 2040? – From self-driving cars to robot lovers and
eating artificial meat

Most cars will be driving themselves, with motorways and roads having self-driving
lanes.

Driverless traffic could travel in convoys, forming “road trains” and allowing
vehicles to drive much closer together, freeing up motorway space. The only
place where you could experience being in control of a car yourself would be a
licensed race track.

Ahead of the ban on sales of new petrol and diesel cars in 2040, we can expect
scrappage schemes during the 2030s which will phase them out. Our roads will
look and sound very different. As for air travel, there will not be huge changes. The
dawn of electric and self-flying planes is possible but they will still be a small
minority.We will see hyper-loops – transport tubes through which passenger pods
can travel at up to 700mph.

Food

As the world’s population booms from the present seven billion to more than nine
billion, we will not be able to farm meat as we have done up to now.There won’t
be enough space for all the animals we would need plus their methane emissions
could cause unsustainable environmental damage.

Communication

Our smartphones will have more or less disappeared, replaced by control centers
which we will wear in a series of devices around our body.

For example, we will wear smart contact lenses, with texts floating in front of our
eyes, and earrings that send messages from a virtual assistant into our ears. We
won’t look as if we are wearing anything extra but it will be as if we are looking
through a smartphone at the real world, albeit one more powerful than anything
we know today.

Our social networks will also become integral to the real world. We may see a
stranger in the street and, using facial recognition software linked to our control
centers, will instantly know their name and be able to access their profile.

Health

We will all wear a huge range of sensors that will constantly monitor things such as
blood pressure, blood sugar and blood oxygen level. Longevity will rise, with many
living well beyond 100 years.
Children born in 2040 will have a more or less indefinite life. With gene therapy,
stem cell and nano-scale medicine, barring an accident or fatal disease, we may
live forever and look much younger.

Link: https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/4115579/self-driving-cars-robot-lovers-future-in-2040/