- Human beings will live to 150 using medical advancements
- We will communicate with people around the world instantly, and without using any aids(embedded chips that read our thoughts and transmit them)
- Machines would have become sentient, with a collective and individual intelligence of their own(singularity)
- Sex, both for procreation or pleasure will become very rare(super efficient IVF that guarantees perfect children; avatars/humanoids /virtual reality for pleasure)
- Physical travel will be unaffordable for most people, unless you're mining on Mars.
- Our diets will consist of man-made tablets, powders, juices.
- Natural fruits and vegetables will be more for the gazillionaires.
- Knowledge will be implanted/transferred to our brains.
- People will have multiple life-like holographic avatars that can perform tasks for them simultaneously, often with other avatars.
- There will be one global currency, of which there will be no physical variant.
- Programmers and hackers will be the investment bankers and bankers of then.
- Mankind would have engineered a third sex - neither/both man and woman - combing the (cliched) strengths of men(e.g. spacial correlation) and women(e.g. EQ).
- Children will be born inside newly grown surrogate clones, who will be discarded after birth.
- There will be no states by large corporations who control everything.
- The same states will auction the right to have children(not to bear them), but only the very rich will be able to afford them.
- Our home interiors will be made of shape shifting materials that will rearrange to form newer shapes depending on designs fed to them. For instance your living room may be a beach with a beach chair one day and a meadow with a view of the swiss alps another.
- We will be completely and utterly self sufficient on energy(solar), food(artificial), water(desalination) and population(seriously below threshold rate). Mankind will then be pointless and aimless.
Do they sound more outlandish compared to my first set? Possibly. Here's when our resident social media editor and nocturnal man-of-words Peter Griffin chimed: why not ask Forbes India staff to add their own predictions to this list, then have our readers rank those ideas and make some predictions of their own. Sounds like a plan, Peter!Watch the Forbes India blog pages over the next few days on how to join us in this interesting exercise. Edit: Readers are welcome to add their predictions or critiques as comments to this post too.
First Published: Jan 12, 2012, 17:03
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