How the World will look like in the next 50 years

People have always been intrigued of what the future will look like. The answers are quite simple and here you have them for the next 50 years.

How can we know what the future will look like?
To be able to understand the future, you must know the past. What has taken us to where we are today and what has changed along the way. The world has changed a lot in the last 150 years, but we humans are driven by the same basic needs as we were 150 years ago, food, sleep, sex, the feeling of being appreciated and loved. Will this change in the next 150 years? No.

What inventions have really made a difference in the last 150 years?
If you take away all gadgets that people in some part of the world are using for entertainment, the inventions that have affected most people around the world for everyday living are the telephone, electricity, radio, television, computer, the car and the ability to communicate through Internet. Then we of course have a lot of inventions that have made life easier, like new medicine, faster transports etc.

In general the inventions for the last 150 years have been a human strive for freedom and communication, to be able to get in control of the time and world. Since there is still much to do in this area, this will be the focus at least for the next 150 years.

But why do we need to predict the future?
Predicting the future is important for two reasons; first we need to start to think about what kind of future we would like for ourselves and to pass on to the next generation, and then we need to know what decisions we need to make today that will give the best result in the future.

Will we ever get those flying cars in the future I saw in pictures as a kid?
Flying cars is an example of a scenario that has been pictured for the future for a long time. It is a great and exciting concept, but is it realistic? To start with we must find out if there’s a basic need for it, what are the pros and cons. Then we have to think about the system we have today, cars going on the ground, and the transition to a new system. To make it work in this example we need two parallel systems, with a road network for the flying cars simultaneousely as the common road network. Even if the flying cars are improved to be suitable for city traffic, the investments would be huge for a city to implement this, as well as for households to get that extra vehicle. So even if all the pros are there the practical steps for such a new route is too hard to overcome, so I’m sorry, there will be no road network for flying cars in the next 50 years.

How about the virtual worlds, do I need to go on vacation in the future or just have all the cells in my body experience an artificial vacation?
It might be possible in the future to experience the sand between your toes, feel the salt from the ocean on your lips, hear the waves and smell the seaweed, just lying in your bed at home. But we will not be able to fool the mind in the way that no matter how real the experience will feel, you will always know that it haven’t happen for real. That will make all the difference. You can tell people today that you have seen the pyramids in Egypt because you have seen a picture of them, but you will never get the feeling of being there. So, even if a great invention is there for an affordable price, it will never replace the common experience if it is not genuine.

Please tell me we will get in contact with some aliens in the near future...
It is most likely that there are other life in the Universe considered there are billion solar systems. In the aspect that our solar system is about 4.6 billion years, other civilisations could be 10 million or even 1 billion years ahead of us. With these numbers in mind there is no greater chance that they will make contact with us within the next 50 years than in 100,000 years, and with the size of the Universe we will not likely be able to make any contact with them during this time.

So what will the future look like then?
What we will see in the next 50 years is the transition from an oil-dependent society, new medicine, the first steps in the development of artificial intelligence, continued exploration of space, more people to die from AIDS, hopefully a better state for the poor people in the world, challenges in the climate change, and new inventions that make life a little easier and entertaining for some.  

How should I do then to make the future great?
Well, as you know the winner in life is not the one with the most money when he dies, the winner is the person who sleeps best at night. To feel good about yourself and the people around you, listen to them and show them the love and respect they deserve as fellow human beings and help those in need. That is what will matter when you go to bed at night in 50 years from now, and hopefully will give you a good night’s sleep.


Comments:

Where will robots be.

gay robots

What about our global 'War on Terror'? It is unlikely that it will be forgotten overnight

School will be a helmate with everything in it.

We will have characteristics similar to the Chinese people.

We should have floating skateboards

Better chance to get teenagers world wide and help to start a band **$@#

Will people live on the moon?

Who is going to have Govermental or world power in the future?

What about architecture? Will skyscrapers reach higher altitudes?

i really want floating houses....

i really think you should add phasers. whats a future without phasers? also please add matrix-style vr games. you know thats gonna happen.

I don't think there will be any aliens,besides I'm a Christain.God created human,not alien.

i want there to be bubbles to take you places....awesome!!

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So, no PAV's, holograms, robots, or any of the other cool futuristic stuff?
I have to admit- that future really sucks- but I guess we have to face reality; since peak oil is somewhat iminent- a technological regression would have to occur within the next century.

That really does suck though.

I want to see computers used to build cities by special programs, imagine if they invited matter that connected computers with real society man you could have cartoon characters in real life form

where will be pakistanin the world map in future???

It would be cool if buildings were somehow built in a matter of seconds, not in months or years. And yeah, bubble transport would be awesome, too! Dyl, your idea about cartoon characters in real life form is stellar!! I hope we eventually make contact with extraterrestrial intelligence elsewhere in the universe, cuz that would be so COOL!!!! B-)

I want to just look at a screen and have everything in my mind. NO SCHOOL!!!

They should not make robots because it will make us lazy!!

I think in the future there will be this HUGE stroid commig to earth at almost the speed of light. The speed of light is
300,000km per second and it will SMASH the earth!! THEN the earth will no longer exist.

May be sometime in the future there might be floating cars and the cars float by magnets. The cars might transform into a submarie to go underwater or a small plane to fly!! They might go at MACH 5

To tina... I have heard that alien's are mentioned in the bible. Is that true? Well I am embarrassed to not know that for sure to cite the reference and say that my NIV bible is in the garage... i think. Sorry God. Please forgive me Lord God and Jesus Christ I love you. I have my new testament in my room though.

Super football players

A genetically enhanced Brett Favre

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will there be jetpacks that are used for @#$*ing

will there be fling anything

will there be fling dells.

will there be fling Bob,s

a blackhole.......

I agree with most of your points. However, you have failed to account for the possibility of a technological singularity. What is this, you ask? Well, if I drew a graph of paradigm shifts in human history (HOW LONG IT TOOK for the discovery of fire, farming, invention of the wheel, renaissance, industrial revolution, information revolution, etc.), it would exhibit an exponential character on a logarithmic time scale. If you performed a best fit curve to this, it could be gleaned from this chart that at some point in the near future, we will have technology that is capable of self-improvement (aka Artificial Intelligence).

After this point, all bets are off the table, because this means that machines (or more correctly, networks) will become more capable of performing design and improvement of other machines than their human counterparts. This is not a Matrix or Terminator-style bleak outlook, because we simply cannot predict what will happen when we reach this point. Some say all hell will break loose and machines will go nuts. Some say that we will begin to colonize space and become more mature as a species and learn to live better with our planet and its resources and other inhabitants. Others see the comforts brought by such technology quickly turning us toward sloth and gluttony. Some liken it to a spiritual awakening.

The problem with guessing is that everyone always 'said so' once they know they are right. Nobody dares to speak once they are proved wrong through history.

In the 18th century, man was certain that human flight was a dream but Da Vinci was dreaming up an airscrew in the 1500's. People were utterly convinced that bloodletting was the only cure to several diseases until the 19th century , but we have records of plastic surgery in 600BC India.

So what we have is selective memory. As individuals, we remember only certain events and as a society, we tend to forget much more quickly. Technology has caused a change in that (ie. the Information Revolution) in that more information is freely accessible to individuals now that ever before in our recorded history. The next wave will probably come through Nano Technology and miniaturization as stated in your article. Some fear that we are not ready for Nano Technology. My guess is that we will make great strides in Integrated technologies (Nano + Bio + Space + Smart materials.. etc). This will result in
(as a very poor example) a toaster that has Aerospace technologies and grown using Bio technology that has the computing power of a current personal computer and is almost affordable for the geeky. The next step, of course is mass-production and integration into society (How many of you remember the old cellphones?). History has taught us this. We need to stop forgetting so soon.

Sorry my thoughts are not very coherent, but I hope some of my ideas came through in this garbled mess of a reply!

ROBOS WILL DOMINATE ME!!

did you know that is possible to live a virtual life without technological help? using the own mind?

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im a christen but i do belive god also made aliens he dident entend for us to know everything also im 11

Lets try to be reasonable here, will there ever be life on mars? i mean if we continue polluting the o-zone what will protect the rays of the sun from earth.

wait i forgot im 14 :P but i do think its a serious matter.

Ok although everything seems to be off of Futurama or Tripping the rift.... I think the biggest question here is: How will life change if we create a better A.I. throughout this time? cuz let's face it A.I. is good but will screw us over in the long run..

HOPE IT DOESN'T END UP LIKE MAD MAX BEYOND THE THUNDER DOME, WATER WORLD OR THE CALIFORNIA LOVE MUSIC VIDEO.

I PERSONALLY HAVE OPTIMISTIC VIEWS ABOUT THE FUTURE.

IT WILL PROBABLY BE AWESOME.

ESPECIALLY IF WE GET TO MAKE IT THERE.

dude what about all the war stuff???it is very unlikely that the world will remain peaceful for so long...someone or some country will want absulute power like hitler.and the world with all the new nuclear weapons we will just destroy the world itself!!!!!!!!!!

everyone will be gay..sounds good ;)

i just want everything to stay the same the way it is i get kinda freaked out thinkin about the future :(

there will be like flying cars and cool things like hovering scatebords and shit man its gon be off the hoke man its gon be tight :D cant wait dude nothin bad is gona happen till then trust me ;)

we'll all get really fat because robots will do all our work for us.

WALL-E

there should be a pill that will give you an automatic origasm:D

There should be computer chips implanted in our brains so we can have night vision or wallhacks :D

the world will be under robots control :D

there willbe flying cars

will flying cars

what will the weapons be like?

weapons, will be lasers, and melee will be brought back to fruition via the lightsaber.

in the future, there should totally be a, sort of recorder thing, that records your dreams, and you can watch them WHENEVER you want!!!! oooh, free porn, hehehe.

There will be robots. They are already making sex robots that are supposed to come out within the next 50 years. They say the first ones to come out will cost around a mil, but after years they will come down to just a couple hundread bucks. you will be able to order male or female and any size any color. Just how you want it. And they will simulate moaning and movement just like a real human. This I know for a fact. LOOK IT UP!

in the future, everything will be made of metal. thus eliminating the need for wood. OXYGEN FOR EVERYONE!!!!!!

i dont think so!

For Tina:

You believe that there are not aliens? how about other humans? what defines the limits of God's creativity? As I see it... IF God exists and his creation is the universe and all that is within it, what makes another solar system different from "the new world" now generally called america. It was thought at the time that it couldn't exist. That largely was due to the limits of technology of the day that allowed people to travel and discover new things. What's the difference between the state of the art sea vessel from hundreds of years ago to new space technologies being created as we speak? Who's to say wether or not in future we can create a new space vessel that will allow the discovery of a planet that supports life and SURPRISE there is a deer there that doesn't exist on earth? Wouldn't surprise me at all. Now other sentient life? That's another matter... IF there is a God.

Eventually technology will collapse because we realize we can't live with artificial intelligence, it's just bothering us too much. Some people will be wise enough to avoid relying on too much technology and will be the ones who survive when the apocalypse comes.

i hope that in the future it will be very cool.coller than just ipods, cellphones,computers,and cars

i have this feeling ever since yesterday that im more than what i think that some day and somehow im going to be the creator of the futer......i know it sounds lame but it intrests me for some reason i cant explain but i know that i was made for something special to contribute to humanity... ive already come up with the concept of fingernail watches its actually pretty cool but i need a way for people to notice me.im only 13 i have my whole life ahead of me so just remember the name jenny andrea diaz and remember....

Maybe you should use the next 50 years to improve your English. It could take that long by the looks of it.

Man, if God Created all in 7 days, and that was what 28 billion years ago, Im sure he hasnt just been sitting on his ass ever since or before There has gotta be millons of other planets with life on them, Space is a big ass place that we cant even begin to understand, Our entire Solorsystem and everything we know of is just a tiny spec of what is out there, to be more realistic, everything we know including time istelf is the vastness of all space we know of may be nothing more than a spec of microscopic dust in another massive planet in its own space and its own even larger solar system. just like numbers as we know them it never ends. think of it like on MIB when at the end of the movie an alien opens his locker and inthere is our etire galixie and everything we know of including space itself. ... We are nothing more than a blip in time and a tiny phenomenon, we are cancer of this poor planet and untill people realise this our time is limited.

lol well Jenny I hate to say this but you have about 2 years and one month to make your mark or it will be forgoten in time, dont forget that the Bible, the Prophets of ancient greece, mexico and the meian all state the earth as we know it will be done, OVER time itself will end DEC 23, 2012. so.... get moven. I personaly dont buy it but if it does all end there at least it isnt alone in some hospital room, we can all go down together.
What do you all thing about that 2012 deals, look at all the facts first then answer with an intellegent comment not some crap about "ya gonna end" im just wondering how many actually believe this stuff.? sorry about the spelling 28yrs old but spell like im 14 lol.

enjoy ur life while you can dont worry about the future

well, i think that jenny is actually onto something, but then again, i am 13 also, so i actually can imagine that.:D but i don't think that the world will end in 2012, so i am not worrien

personally, i think the lightsaber would be quite simple. all you need, is a high powered energy beam, or laser, a lense, a pipe (PVC tubing, or metal pipe) a conductor, a power source, and a way to activate it (button or switch). (if necessary a reflective rod to keep the laser from going on forever.)

Robots will take over earth don't create them.

it may be true, but then again it mightin't, but if people just try and save the world from being like this, then theres a chance it might be fine in the future. I now turn off all my elcectricity when I'm not using it. I think everything will look like coolness, until it all breaks down, haha when it does, cauae hopefully i wont be alive by the time this happens. lol People should really watch the movie wall.e, cause it is class!!!!

we should get millions of dollars every day :) lol haha see ya

We are officially in the future, there is an LG phone that has a projector, that is the official cornerstone of the fact that we are in the future.

hey how do you know all this ..

Our planet in this solar system will continue to sustain life for 2 billion years more until the sun runs out of power. Its possible that due to our ignorance we may be extinct from nuclear wars, but its possible that cockroaches and microorganisms will survive and a new "human species" will emerge. On the bright side we might be able to colonize other planets in other solar systems of our galaxy Milky Way.

I dont think there will be life in our solar system, but I do think there are other "EARTHS" out there in the galaxy. With all this terror, killing and gay people GOD is going to terminate this EARTH!! If we all lived by simple rules we would have a much better earth!!
What if there is another earth out there? Scarry!!! we can have our internet connect with theres and be a GWN. Galaxy Wide Network.

"If you performed a best fit curve to this, it could be gleaned from this chart that at some point in the near future, we will have technology that is capable of self-improvement (aka Artificial Intelligence)."

NO IT WOULDN'T, HOW IN THE HELL DID YOU DERIVE THAT?

It would be brilliant to think that perhaps sometime, over the next 150 years, everybody on the planet would realise that we are one race - the human race. Despite our unique individual differences we would understand that money, religion and war are immaterial to our advancement in this universe. This is what world leaders should be discussing right now. This is my hope for the future, a world in harmony. I do understand however that in the meantime certain more socially advanced countries may have to bomb the s@*t out of others.

In the future, which I have clearly seen, politicians will wear diapers color-coded for party, size, and absorbency. Their constituents will wear color-coordinated outfits as a means of identification. Consummately serious haberdashers and milliners will be exclusive advertisers on Star Trek reruns playing 24/7 on the Star Trek network, the industry having purchased all rights to the series and derivative films on which each character wears a superimposed fedora. Though children will be inclined to laugh uncontrollably, comedy [and the recitation of history] will have been outlawed -- illegalized, except for jokes about constituents, their gullibility, and their ill-fitting hats.
Jay Leno’s birthday will have become an International holiday, replacing Festivus, which will have been outlawed, but for the pole toss, coincidentally the only remaining Olympic Event. The entire planet earth will have become an Internet hot spot and wind power generator, with turbines positioned everywhere, the largest resting atop the Eifel Tower, affectionately called Le fashion spin.
Under Iranian leadership, creativity and invention will have begun to flourish in peace and tranquility under the threat of nuclear holocaust. China, controlling all global debt will have become a huge rest stop and gas station serving oil to anticipated interplanetary travelers bent on seeing the fully refurbished Great Wall. Visitors will have not yet arrived. Though fresh water will be plentiful, abounding with snake heads, mud snails, zebra mussels and Chinese carp, ice will have become a legendary but valued collectors’ item seen by an equally legendary few. Hawaii will have long since become a beautiful reef, popular with lottery winners.
News will consist only of sports, fashion, rap music, Star Trek reruns and hat ads. That’s all I can remember.

The answer to everyones questions is in the ne 30 years things should be hightec because i hooked up with some local scientists and they told me that they are getting more knewledge then the average scientists.What that means is that they are almost done on this huge machine that can withstand going in the past going in the future and slowing time as we speak.What i wnt to do is finish my college and complete everyones dreams and hopes this will be rough but im 100% sure i can do it.I can do the unthinkable all i need is faith and hope my first invention i want to make a huge lab/station/factory.

we r gona be slaves... !! ... slaves of the NWO! we r gona be the robots... their robots! WAKE THE FUCK UP!!!!!!

i bet theres floating cars and robots and cool awesome suits

is the END OF THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the world will not end in 2012 but will begin! some people will move on and be transported to a different universe and some people will stay (mostly the kind and innocent).im only 14, but i got my info from a good source.... after december/21/2012 our world will be much different and there will be no evil and bad thoughts by people and kids... so im accually quite excited for 2012 (if it happens ofcourse) and if u want it to happen u jst have to believe it will happenand and leave the rest to the angels

Also,, if u want the future to be happy, entertaining and free u just have to help with the venus project. im sure some people have herd of the venus project and maybe dont believe it but give it a try, u have nothing to lose.... go to www.thevenusproject.com... just give it a look im sure u will want what u see. and it can happen!!!

will people live on other planets like mars or the moon

will our o-zone ever be fixed

Spider-Man is awesome!

hello i want to know how i will look

Guys r u all out of your mines it like only 50years we wont have floting car for about 200years

this does not sound like a good idea we r deat in 7 years

science fiction plays a huge part in our future our imagenation can become reallity. star trek for instence they can make stuff instently using computer software, in engineering they are just starting to get the hang of sintering witch is were things can be made from there powder form. maybe one day all objects will be made like this...

do u think that weapons will develop to be like halo e.g. with laser guns like in the old movies

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