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Interesting video here:
For those who can't watch it, or simply won't watch it, here are the 10 things mentioned:
10. Self Driving Cars
They have come a long way so far already. Intel says this will be an $800 billion industry by the year 2035, and by 2050, it will be $7 trillion. They say transportation fatalities will cease to exist. They say nearly every car on the road by 2050 will be self driving cars.
9. Neurolace Technology - Brain Computer
Bye, bye Iphones and Androids. Within the next decade, tech industry experts say the smartphone that we know it, will become a thing of the past. Tesla founder Elon Musk has launched Neuralink, he says your device may become a part of your brain, creating a brain computer interface which will finally close the gap between our minds and our machines.
8. Space Travel for the Public
The company SpaceX is the first entity public or private to launch a recycled rocket into space. The company wants space travel to be accessible and affordable to the public. Their next goal is to reuse a rocket within 24 hours putting space flight on more of a playing field with commercial aircrafts in terms of how often they can be reliably launched. Some, including NASA astronaut Don Thomas, believes space travel for the public will be a thing in as little as ten years.
7. Artificial Intelligence Revolution
Some of the world's smartest people, including Stephen Hawking says AI poses a threat to mankind than any other technology. Computer scientist, inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil is an authority on this subject. He thinks that on its current course, research into artificial intelligence will produce an AI that will pass the 'Turing' test - meaning that in conversation, it will be indistinguishable from a human being no later than 2029. Of course, there's a threat AI will surpass human intelligence, which is why many, including Hawking wants strict controls on the technology as it matures.
6. Sex with Robots
This seems to have come a thing already, judging by threads I've seen here on the Mayberry (LOL), but nevertheless, it was featured in this video. Famed futurist Dr. Ian Pearson predicts that virtual sex in some form or another will be commonplace by 2030 with robots capable of sexual relations appearing in wealthy households as soon as 2035. He also agrees with London University professor David Levy, author of a book on the subject of human - robot relations, that actual marriage between human and machine will be legal by 2050.
5. Cure for All Cancers
Many experts are promising that an end to cancer is in sight. In 2016, researchers announced a new treatment that acts as a universal cancer vaccine. The treatment uses small amounts of the patients own DNA to prompt the immune system to attack tumors, an unprecedented technique that has shown a great deal of promise. A recent analysis from two universities in the UK has suggested by 2050, cancer mortality and patients under the age of 80 will dwindle to zero.
4. Biotech Upgrades - Anti-Aging
Many scientists say that with the right technology, aging can be prevented, or even reversed. Ray Kurzweil believes that biotech upgrades will add one year life expectancy to our own current lifespans every year beginning in 2020. These encapsulate myriad technologies from computerized 3D printed implants to stem cell therapies to genetic engineering a technology which is already a reality thanks to CRISPR, the gene editing technique that is current undergoing testing in China. The GBI thinks that humans will reach their 120th birthdays by 2050, and David Kekich of the Maximum Life Institute has gone even further, saying he believes we will have the tools to reverse aging by 2029.
3. Transhumanism
Transhumanism is a global movement that believes in the eventual and quite literal merging of man and machine. And as we've already seen, the prospect is not at all far-fetched. Even in the technologies infancy, brain implants have shown the ability to perform such miracles as restoring limited movement to the paralyzed, and giving sight to the blind. Technology like Elon Musk's brain computer, once perfected, will give our brains literal superhuman processing capability. And the field of prosthetics has seen the kind of technological explosion in recent years that makes replacement of your entire body with artificial parts - a concept that is edging out of the realm of science fiction and into the realm of the possible.
2. Artificial Brain Performing as a Human Brain
An artificial brain that performs just like a human brain will be in reach by 2050. If you believe the scientists that have made the development of this tech their life's work, a Massachusetts company called NARALogics has created an artificially intelligent platform based on the design of the human brain and that's just the beginning. Futurists such as Kurzweil and others are a near unanimous agreement that within the next few decades - technology will exist to digitally decode a humans consciousness and upload it into an artificial unit no larger than our actual brains. Of course, if this is true, it means that the human race will have achieved immortality. Our minds will exist solely in the digital realm housed in artificial bodies that can simply be replaced if injured or destroyed along with a fresh upload of a backup copy of our consciousness.
1. Technological Singularity
It should be noted that Ray Kurzweil has been making predictions about the future of technology for over 30 years with an astonishing rate of accuracy. 86% of his predictions have come to pass and he has long insisted that at our rate of technological advancement, we will expierence what he calls - a technological singularity. He describes this as the point at which we will multiply our effective intelligence a billion fold by merging with the intelligence we have created. Many futurists agree that the singularity - the point at which human beings and our technology become one in the same will take place by 2050, but Kurzweil thinks it will happen by 2045.
So Mayberrians, what's bullshit? What's fact? Will any of this happen before 2050?
For those who can't watch it, or simply won't watch it, here are the 10 things mentioned:
10. Self Driving Cars
They have come a long way so far already. Intel says this will be an $800 billion industry by the year 2035, and by 2050, it will be $7 trillion. They say transportation fatalities will cease to exist. They say nearly every car on the road by 2050 will be self driving cars.
9. Neurolace Technology - Brain Computer
Bye, bye Iphones and Androids. Within the next decade, tech industry experts say the smartphone that we know it, will become a thing of the past. Tesla founder Elon Musk has launched Neuralink, he says your device may become a part of your brain, creating a brain computer interface which will finally close the gap between our minds and our machines.
8. Space Travel for the Public
The company SpaceX is the first entity public or private to launch a recycled rocket into space. The company wants space travel to be accessible and affordable to the public. Their next goal is to reuse a rocket within 24 hours putting space flight on more of a playing field with commercial aircrafts in terms of how often they can be reliably launched. Some, including NASA astronaut Don Thomas, believes space travel for the public will be a thing in as little as ten years.
7. Artificial Intelligence Revolution
Some of the world's smartest people, including Stephen Hawking says AI poses a threat to mankind than any other technology. Computer scientist, inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil is an authority on this subject. He thinks that on its current course, research into artificial intelligence will produce an AI that will pass the 'Turing' test - meaning that in conversation, it will be indistinguishable from a human being no later than 2029. Of course, there's a threat AI will surpass human intelligence, which is why many, including Hawking wants strict controls on the technology as it matures.
6. Sex with Robots
This seems to have come a thing already, judging by threads I've seen here on the Mayberry (LOL), but nevertheless, it was featured in this video. Famed futurist Dr. Ian Pearson predicts that virtual sex in some form or another will be commonplace by 2030 with robots capable of sexual relations appearing in wealthy households as soon as 2035. He also agrees with London University professor David Levy, author of a book on the subject of human - robot relations, that actual marriage between human and machine will be legal by 2050.
5. Cure for All Cancers
Many experts are promising that an end to cancer is in sight. In 2016, researchers announced a new treatment that acts as a universal cancer vaccine. The treatment uses small amounts of the patients own DNA to prompt the immune system to attack tumors, an unprecedented technique that has shown a great deal of promise. A recent analysis from two universities in the UK has suggested by 2050, cancer mortality and patients under the age of 80 will dwindle to zero.
4. Biotech Upgrades - Anti-Aging
Many scientists say that with the right technology, aging can be prevented, or even reversed. Ray Kurzweil believes that biotech upgrades will add one year life expectancy to our own current lifespans every year beginning in 2020. These encapsulate myriad technologies from computerized 3D printed implants to stem cell therapies to genetic engineering a technology which is already a reality thanks to CRISPR, the gene editing technique that is current undergoing testing in China. The GBI thinks that humans will reach their 120th birthdays by 2050, and David Kekich of the Maximum Life Institute has gone even further, saying he believes we will have the tools to reverse aging by 2029.
3. Transhumanism
Transhumanism is a global movement that believes in the eventual and quite literal merging of man and machine. And as we've already seen, the prospect is not at all far-fetched. Even in the technologies infancy, brain implants have shown the ability to perform such miracles as restoring limited movement to the paralyzed, and giving sight to the blind. Technology like Elon Musk's brain computer, once perfected, will give our brains literal superhuman processing capability. And the field of prosthetics has seen the kind of technological explosion in recent years that makes replacement of your entire body with artificial parts - a concept that is edging out of the realm of science fiction and into the realm of the possible.
2. Artificial Brain Performing as a Human Brain
An artificial brain that performs just like a human brain will be in reach by 2050. If you believe the scientists that have made the development of this tech their life's work, a Massachusetts company called NARALogics has created an artificially intelligent platform based on the design of the human brain and that's just the beginning. Futurists such as Kurzweil and others are a near unanimous agreement that within the next few decades - technology will exist to digitally decode a humans consciousness and upload it into an artificial unit no larger than our actual brains. Of course, if this is true, it means that the human race will have achieved immortality. Our minds will exist solely in the digital realm housed in artificial bodies that can simply be replaced if injured or destroyed along with a fresh upload of a backup copy of our consciousness.
1. Technological Singularity
It should be noted that Ray Kurzweil has been making predictions about the future of technology for over 30 years with an astonishing rate of accuracy. 86% of his predictions have come to pass and he has long insisted that at our rate of technological advancement, we will expierence what he calls - a technological singularity. He describes this as the point at which we will multiply our effective intelligence a billion fold by merging with the intelligence we have created. Many futurists agree that the singularity - the point at which human beings and our technology become one in the same will take place by 2050, but Kurzweil thinks it will happen by 2045.
So Mayberrians, what's bullshit? What's fact? Will any of this happen before 2050?
