Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Speaking of predictions about the future, I would like to make a few of my own about the Year 2100 AD. In doing so I make a number of assumptions. Firstly, that computing power and technology will continue to advance, even if Moore's Law needs to be revised. Secondly, humanity has not destroyed itself in a nuclear war. Thirdly, that civilisation will be able to adapt to climate change, at least in the short term. The likelihood of other potential catastrophes, such as an asteroid strike or gamma ray burst, are too low to be counted in my assessment.

1. We will be energy sufficient without any need of fossil fuels.
2. Humans will be at least partially cyborg, mainly due to the replacement of worn-out organs and body parts. This could mean that life-expectancy will be radically increased.
3. There will be a space port and allied facilities set up on the Moon.
4. Mars will have had several waves of human settlement.
5. Plans to harvest more of the Sun's energy in space will be underway.
6. Self-driving cars will become obsolete and replaced by more instantaneous forms of automated transport.
7. Asteroid mining will be a thing.
8. Robots will be far more advanced and sent on journeys to explore the Solar System and beyond.
9. AI will be more advanced but still controversial.
10. Humans will no longer eat animals. All meat will be 'grown' in factories.

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