Futurists have announced that awaits as a very promising future
with flying cars, cities that are powered by sunlight, biofuels and many
other things, all by the year 2020.
Associate at the Institute for the Future Mike Liphol says how
technology is developing continuously, he does not believe that the
promised projects will see the light of the day when it is scheduled. He
said that they help people to think systematically about their future.
He said that they do not give answers, they give them predictions, and
you see what are the (im)possible prediction for the next decade.
1. The basis for the robots on the moon
Despite the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan recently,
and the current nuclear crisis, the Japanese continued to work on a
project to build a robot base on the moon, that will be build by robots
and that will be used by robots.
2. Fast train from Beijing to London
The Chinese have a very ambitious plan to link East and West railway
line for fast train, from Beijing to London, and although it sounds
simple, it will be difficult to get permission to build a railway from
all seventeen countries through which the train will pass.
3. Self-directing cars
A scene from the movie Demolition Man in which Sylvester Stallone enters
the cab, where he says where he wants to go, the car drive him to that
place, maybe it is not that far future, since many of them try to do
that. However, before that step is designing a car trains, which need no
driver, and then the cars that can think of themselves. Also, Liphol
suspected complex infrastructure for cars on the road can be designed by
then.
4. Flying cars
While the American agency for development of advanced military
technologies DARPA patented a flying car, it will use only the army and
will not be mass produced. Just as with self-directing cars - it can not
be so quick to design the infrastructure, in this case an air
communication.
5. Controlling devices with mind
As the brain is still unexplored territory, and scientists and science
fiction writers for years are talking about controlling minds. However,
although it is possible to incorporate the chip into the brain, one does
not use all the features of the brain and does not understand all the
neural activity, so thoughts of controlling other devices are still very
feasible.
6. A computer with human intelligence
The company Cisco, which is a worldwide leader in networking, announced
several years ago to work on a computer that will have the processing
power of the human brain, namely, human intelligence, and that will cost
$ 1,000. Liphol considered to be realistic, but the computer will not
be intelligent in the true sense of the word, but only more capable.
7. Translators in mobile phones
As the process of globalization accelerates, more people are working on
the design of a universal translation, and we see that Google translate
does not translate exactly the best. This is because each language is
very complex. The plan is that such a program is inserted into a mobile
phone, and Mike is considered that it is feasible by 2020. year, but
there will be some errors, as well as minority languages will have to
wait a while longer.
8. Synthetic brain that works like a real one
We have already determined that it is feasible to make a computer with
human intelligence, and scientists from Switzerland said that it can be
made to function as genuine, and have created a machine with 10,000
neurons. However, the human brain contains billions and billions of
neurons, given that we do not know how the brain works, it is unlikely
to make a synthetic mind to work as a human mind.
Source:interestingtopics.net
