A group of academics and futurists have recently made predictions about what the world will look like 50 years from now. Some of their predictions include:
- Underwater highways -- A subsonic tube transport system will be created as a sealed tube that is traveled using pods, enabling connections between the United Kingdom and mainland Europe in less than one hour.
- Underground skyscrapers -- Structures, called "earthscrapers" (inverted skyscrapers), which burrow downwards for many stories into the ground, enabling the withstanding of earthquakes.
- Self-Cleaning homes -- At the press of the button, homes will self clean when you leave the house or while you are sleeping.
- Space hotels -- Holidays to space, in which space hotels orbit the Moon or other planets, generating their own gravity.
- 3D printing of organs -- Providing replacements for people in need of organ transplants, or to improve performance.
- Insect-burger fast food -- Insects are said to become a future main food protein source.
- Flying buses and taxis -- We'll be stepping into the nearest available air taxi as a high power drone-copter will fly us above the traffic to speed us to our destination.
- Body implants that monitor our health and translate any language -- A digital companion that gets to know us and our health over our lifetime, which keeps track of our health needs.
- Quidditch-style aerial sport matches on hoverboards -- We'll be cheering on our favorite sporting teams as they fly around the stadium on hoverboards, in Quidditch-style four-dimensional sport matches.
- Interactive movies... physically taking part in what we watch via VR -- When it comes to watching movies at home, affordable and refined suits will create sensations of touch and will fool all five of our senses, allowing people to physically feel the film or video game.
Fifty years ago the world's population was half of what it is now, and in 50 years from now it is projected to reach over 9 billion people. It will be a highly-populated planet with technology being at the forefront of society. I'm glad that I got to experience the world 50 years ago, when 'big inventions' included such things as the pocket calculator, the weed whacker, and post-it notes. To those who will see in the year 2070... good luck!
From Him, Through Him, For Him (Romans 11:36),
Paul J. Staso
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