By
Dr.
RGS Asthana
Senior
Member IEEE
Figure
1: Flying Drones [15]
Summary
By 2030, Internet of things (IoT) will have over 500 billion devices [5, 10] connected and reaching
1 billion flying drones [15]. Travel in driverless car is near certainty [11];
use of 3D printer [23] to print a specialized meal as well as human parts is a
possibility [12, 13]. Water may become a
scarce commodity but desalination is likely to become cheaper and major
resource for water.
Two billion
existing jobs are likely to disappear by 2030 – but many of these jobs will be
back in different forms in different industries and with a different skill set.
We will need to replace our job training
set-up, as both departmental structures and managerial hierarchies will not
exist as they do today.
By 2020, India
will have overtaken China as the most populous country in the world. People may stop taking pills in favour of a
new device that will enable the body to manufacture its own cures.
Space colonies,
personal privacy, and flying cars will all be hot topics of discussion, but may
not a reality.
Online Software to enable services
has the potential to drastically change our lives as many services will be
available online on demand.
Keywords
Digital connectivity, Communications, Internet of things, driverless cars, 3D-Printing, Agriculture, Big Data, Drinking Water
Prelude
The world has seen an exponential growth in
connectivity over the last five years, and the next five will bring further and
faster expansion of communication [1, 9].
In fact, digital connectivity pervades all aspects of daily life of
common citizen irrespective of country they live in. In India too, ‘Digital
India’ project of the Prime Minister is to enhance Internet connectivity and
make government services available to masses through development of application
portals. It’s already possible in India to file income tax returns online as government
collects all info regarding income of individuals.
According
to Cisco [10], 500 billion devices are expected to be connected to the Internet
by 2030. Each device will include sensors that collect data, interact with the
environment, and communicate over a network. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the network of these
connected devices.
Moor’s law - the exponential
doubling of capacity every 2 years - applies to all digital devices. If we
apply this to transportation, as the connected electric car becomes far more
digital, over the next decade they have the potential of improving by a factor
of 32 [15] while traditional mechanical cars may only double or quadruple. As our physical houses enter the digital
arena of smart homes, they too have the possibility of improving by a factor of
32 while conventional homes improve at
a very low pace. This also applies to
our cities. Normal cities change at a slow pace, while a smart city could
potentially move forward 32-fold over the same period.
Two years ago, Facebook wanted to use unmanned
drone airships to beam the internet down to the estimated four billion people
worldwide. On July 23, 2016, it announced
the first full-scale test flight of its solar-powered craft Aquila [17].
Technological
developments have not only enabled but also accelerated growth of driverless
cars, robotic workers and also 3D printing – in fact, the future is most likely
going to be before you know it. Many evolving technologies will reach a tipping point by 2025,
according to The World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Future of
Software & Society [2]. Both
driverless cars and robotic workers depict power of software with connecting
devices and sensors with systems.
Job Scenario
Kodak Business Model Disappeared
In
1998, Kodak had 170,000 employees and met 85% of all photo paper demand worldwide. However within just a few years, their business
model disappeared and they went bankrupt.
What happened to Kodak may happen to a lot of industries in the coming
years.
Did
you know in 1998 that 3 years later you will never take pictures on
paper film again? Yet digital cameras were invented in 1975. The first ones only had 10,000 pixels, but
followed Moore's law. Now 12 million pixels have become common on smart
phones.
It
will now happen with Artificial Intelligence, health, autonomous and electric
cars, education, 3D printing, agriculture and jobs.
Welcome
to the 4th Industrial Revolution and to the Exponential Age. Software will disrupt most traditional
industries in the next 5-10 years.
New Business Models/ Opportunities
New
insights from IoT connected device data enable businesses to create not only
new models but also services. Sensors can detect location, environment,
presence, and more and provide raw data and analytics to applications, which
transform that insight into action. Thus, apps become powerful and useful and
can provide competitive advantage. In
fact, driverless cars will exploit this technology to hilt.
Businesses empowered with new analytics will automate complicated
tasks, reduce production costs and reach new markets. Internet access will further accelerate this change.
New Business Models
Uber model for taxi
Uber
is just a software tool, they don't own any cars, and are now the biggest
taxi company in the world.
Airbnb for hotels
Airbnb
is now the biggest hotel company in the world, although they don't own
any properties.
Lawyers and jobs
In
the US, young lawyers already don't get jobs. Because of IBM Watson, one can
get basic legal advice within seconds, with 90% accuracy compared with 70% accuracy when done by humans. So if you study law, stop immediately. There will be 90% fewer lawyers in the future, only specialists will remain.
get basic legal advice within seconds, with 90% accuracy compared with 70% accuracy when done by humans. So if you study law, stop immediately. There will be 90% fewer lawyers in the future, only specialists will remain.
Watson
already helps nurses diagnosing cancer, 4 times more accurate
than human nurses. Facebook now has pattern recognition software that recognizes faces better than humans.
than human nurses. Facebook now has pattern recognition software that recognizes faces better than humans.
Jobs
By
the year 2030, over 60% of present jobs may disappear. However, there will be a lot of new set of jobs,
requiring a different skill set.
The routine
programmer’s job may also disappear as program code for routine software shall
be done through other software, eliminating the need for thousands of programmers
in our IT companies. This kind of development is in advanced stage at Stanford.
Further, Infosys in India has already
established a research team to take this forward.
What happens to
jobs in India when jobs all over the World will disappear? We will have many
more jobless people every year World over. Will it lead to another revolution? I
hope, our policy makers are planning for such eventualities.
It may be noted
that expert’s job will be intact for time being.
3D printing [23]
The
price of the cheapest 3D printer today is about $400 which used to be $18,000
say, 10 years before. It not only became
cheaper but also 100 times faster during this period.
Physical
objects are “printed” from raw materials via additive, or 3D – printing: It allows
for printing products at home and creates a whole set of human health
opportunities.
All
major shoe companies started 3D-printing shoes [14]. 3D
printed shoes are attractive for customers because the shoes are custom-made
for each person’s unique feet. Few people have feet that are identical. In
other words, your left foot might be slightly wider or smaller than your right
foot. Because of this, finding shoes that fit both feet perfectly is rare.
Spare
airplane parts are already 3D printed in remote airports. The space station now
has a printer that eliminates the need for the large number of spare
parts they used to have in the past.
3D food printing offers
a range of potential benefits. It can be healthy and good for the environment
because it can help to convert alternative ingredients such as proteins from
algae, beet leaves, or insects into tasty products [12]. In just 15
years over 90% of all restaurants will use some form of a 3D food printer in
their meal preparations, a number of roads designated for driverless-vehicle
only and 20% of all new buildings will be 3D “printed.”
One day, 3D printers may create not only
things, but also human organs [7, 13] – looks like a difficult preposition
today. The material used to print an organ would obviously be different from
what is used to print a bike, and one needs to find out what kinds of materials
will work, such as, titanium powder for making bones. The process is called “bio-printing [7, 13].” However, all bio-printers output cells from a bio-print head that moves
left and right, back and forth, and up and down, in order to place the cells
exactly where required. Over a period of several hours, this permits an organic
object to be built up in a great many very thin layers. In addition to
outputting cells, most bio-printers also output a dissolvable gel to support
and protect cells during printing. 3D printing has
great potential to service custom design needs. It is true that there is
nothing more custom than a human body.
At the end 2017, new smart phones will have 3D scanning possibilities.
You can then 3D Scan your feet and print your perfect shoe at home 14]. In
China, they already 3D printed a complete 6-storey office building. By
2030, 10% of everything that's being produced will be 3D printed.
Agriculture
The world population
will be 8.3 billion up from current 6 billion and will be progressively
well-fed by 2030 [24], with 3050 kilocalories (kcal) available per
person, compared to 2360 kcal per person per day in the mid-1960s and 2800 kcal
today. This shows increasing per capita consumption in many developing
countries which is likely to be close to
3000 kcal in 2030.
There
will be a cheap agricultural robot in the future. Farmers in 3rd world
countries can then become managers of their field instead of working all days
on their fields. The technology will
enable that Agro needs much less water.
The
first Petri dish produced veal is now available and will be cheaper than
cow-produced veal in 2018. Right now, 30% of all agricultural surfaces are used
for cows. Imagine if we don't need that
space anymore.
There
are several start-ups that will bring insect protein to the market shortly. It will
contain more protein than meat. It will be an alternative protein source.
Agriculture has continually been on the forefront of
innovation. Entering the driverless era will be no exception and all jobs
related to vehicle driving in agriculture are likely to disappear.
Artificial Intelligence
An artificial intelligent system using natural
language processing, ontologies and reasoning can be effective in gathering and
extracting information from large data sources and has the ability to identify
the cause and effect within data. Computers become exponentially better in understanding
the world. This year, a computer beat the best Go player in the world, 10
years earlier than expected.
However,
along with advances in technology, the latest strategy for AI developers has
become [21], “Don’t model the world but model the mind.”
Since
2012, a specific machine learning technique called “Deep Learning” has
permeated the AI world. Researchers have abandoned the classical programming tricks-style
of AI and switched to deep learning, because it works far better than any
previous methodologies. Thus, we have made progress on several key AI problems,
viz., image understanding, signal processing, vocal comprehension, and
understanding text. Although, “Deep Learning”
is far from true AI as it does not take us even close to adaptable intelligence
human’s show, but it certainly is a step towards getting there.
These
knowledge processing systems, through the process of learning, identify relationships
and connections between databases; help fulfil the role of marketing companies
through effectively aiding in market segmentation and measurement of
performance while reducing costs and improving accuracy. AI is good at matching patterns and automating
processes. An environment can be planned
in the future where AI based tools replace a range of functions performed today
by the people.
There is an app called "Moodies"
which can already tell in which mood you are.
Until 2020 there will be apps that can tell by your facial expressions if you are lying.
Imagine a political debate where it's being displayed when they are telling the truth and when not.
Until 2020 there will be apps that can tell by your facial expressions if you are lying.
Imagine a political debate where it's being displayed when they are telling the truth and when not.
Microsoft was the first to develop intelligent
software called, ‘Clippy’
[30], an office assistant that proved to be more annoying than useful. More
recently, Apple developed SIRI for its iPhone followed by Google Android OS. Looking ahead, we can expect our personal
assistants accessible to us 24/7 and capable of fully responding to natural
language, including colloquialisms and our personal idiosyncrasies as well as
you can have conversations with them. In
short they will be tuned to our habits so they can write as well as read our
emails, book appointments, perform menial thought tasks, and even anticipate
our needs. Of course, we will be able to assign the degree of autonomy we give
our mind clones.
Big Data for Decisions
Big data is a term for data sets that are very large or complex that traditional data
processing applications are insufficient to deal with them [31]. It is generated in many areas e.g., now we
have more data about communities and the capability to understand and manage
this data is refining every day. Governments may use big-data technologies to
automate their current programmes and deliver new and innovative ways to
service citizens and customers as it will empower them in better and faster
decision-making. This will help and
enable businesses as well as Governments to provide more on-line services to
their citizens to make their lives better.
Use of big data to automate and replace procedures that are labour
extensive today may eliminate certain
jobs, but may also create new categories of jobs and opportunities that
currently do not exist in the market. All this may bring substantial changes in
government policies and the way we do business today.
The United Nations has also realized value and utility of big data
methodology and initiated a program called Global Pulse programme which focuses
on leveraging big data for sustainable development and humanitarian action, and
envisions a future in which big data is harnessed safely and responsibly as a
public good.
Bitcoin and the block-chain
Bitcoin
will become main-stream soon and might even become the default reserve
currency. Bitcoin and
digital currencies are - a distributed trust mechanism called the “block-chain”
- a way of keeping track of trusted transactions in a distributed fashion.
Currently, the total worth of Bitcoin in the block-chain is around $20 billion,
or about 0.025% of global GDP of around $80 trillion.
The block-chain creates both opportunities and challenges for countries.
Bitcoin is unregulated currency at present and therefore not overseen by any
central bank, meaning less control over monetary policy. But, it also presents an opportunity for
Governments to create new taxing mechanisms into the block-chain itself say, a
small transaction tax.
Drinking Water
We
don't have scarce water in most places but we only have scarce drinking
water. Desalination now only needs 2kWh
per cubic meter. A situation will soon appear when one can have as much clean
water as he wants, at almost no cost.
The gap between the
availability and demand is increasing at a greater pace in most of developing
and under-developed countries. A recent
study predicts that by 2030, 40% of Indian population may not have drinking
water if situation remains as on date [19]. Cities like, Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru
and other key metropolitan cities already consume water in huge quantities. As water tables
around the World goes lower and lower, and population keeps on growing,
availability for more water for personal as well as agricultural use, supplies
of sustainably managed water will continue to fall. The consequences
could be dire for human health, as water-related diseases proliferate.
In an effort to solve the above
scenario, a water bottle called, ‘Fontus’ was designed to solve drinking water global
problem, particularly, in areas of the world where there is very little
groundwater but very high humidity.
Fontus works using the basic
principle of condensation. Fontus can
produce 0.5 quarts (0.5 liters) of water in 1 hour in what is considered
"really good" conditions, with temperatures between 86 degrees and
104 degrees Fahrenheit (30 to 40 degrees Celsius) and between 80 percent and 90
percent humidity [20].
With
cheap electricity there is potential for cheap and abundant drinking water.
Education
The
cheapest smart phones are already at $10 in Africa and Asia. Until 2020,
70% of all humans will own a smart phone. That means everyone has the
same access to world class education.
Electricity
Electricity will become incredibly cheap and clean by 2030 as solar production
is likely to grow at an exponential rate. Last year, more solar energy was installed worldwide than fossil. The price for solar energy will drop so much that all coal companies will be out of business by 2025. Solar Power could account for 13% Of World electricity generation by 2030, says IRENA [18].
Electricity will become incredibly cheap and clean by 2030 as solar production
is likely to grow at an exponential rate. Last year, more solar energy was installed worldwide than fossil. The price for solar energy will drop so much that all coal companies will be out of business by 2025. Solar Power could account for 13% Of World electricity generation by 2030, says IRENA [18].
Indian Foreign Minister speaking on 71st
UN General Assembly session said that by the year 2030 India will produce 40%
of its electricity from non-conventional energy sources which includes wind and
solar generation.
E-writing
It is known for long,
handwriting activates areas of the brain that helps in early childhood language
and literacy development as per many recent studies [3]. This is probably the reason many people
prefer writing by hand instead of typing.
Now technology experts in academia and industry are
developing tools to integrate handwriting into digital communications, and have
spawned revolutionary solutions in the new category of “e-Writing”. New directions for e-Writing allow users to take pen-and-paper-style
advantage of our ubiquitous handhelds. Manufacturers
have introduced many tablets and smart phones with a pen input feature enabling
user’s new writing options, e.g., Samsung’s popular Galaxy Note
smartphone/tablet crossover) incorporates pen writing ability or iPad from
Apple.
E-writing technology offers many benefits of
communication efficiency and effectiveness for several handwriting intensive
sectors, such as healthcare, education, business and defence/security.
Flying Drones [15]
Why only flying capabilities of
Drones are talked about but think of a
drone that can fly as well be able to move along on the ground, jump onto a
building, climb a tree, adhere to a piece of glass, float on the water or swim
under it or practically do all task not possible for a single human being.
Why limit thinking to drones with
photo and video capability only, when drones can include everything from
sensors, to robotic arms, video projectors, speakers, lights, x-rays, weapons,
bombs, and several spy technologies.
Think of a swarm of drones like a
swarm of bees or flock of birds. These
swarms will coordinate their activities around a central purpose or mission. A
swarm is subset of Fleet. A fleet may comprise
of one or more swarms. People managing
complex operations will realize that if one drone is effective, a dozen or two
can produce far better coverage as well as effect.
The areas where fleet may be
required and also very effective will be emergency services like police, fire,
rescue command centers; Stadiums, non-emergency services provided by Forestry Departments, National
Parks, Power Plants, Ski Resorts, College and School , Airports; in
Agriculture Industry – Think of Crop monitoring drones, chase-away bird
drones, spraying-seeding-testing drones, and more such possibilities; Construction
Companies, Shipping Docks, Theme Parks – Drones may be required at
any place where people gather and
monitoring is needed, traffic analysis, data gathering, and much more; Military
Installations, Prisons etc.
The ambitious “ROBOAT” project [32], collaboration between
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Amsterdam Institute for
Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS), will start a five-year trial of the
vessels from 2017 to give the multi-purpose boats all sorts of interesting
tasks for the busy waterways. Amsterdam will pilot world's first self-driving
boats on its canals. It will be doing everything from moving people and goods
to providing "pop-up" bridges and cleaning up thousands of dumped
bicycles. The boats will also gather environmental data on water or air quality
and noise.
Health
There
will be companies that will build a medical device (called the
"Tricorder" from Star Trek) that works with your phone, which
takes your retina scan, your blood sample and you can breathe into it. It then analyses 54 biomarkers that will identify nearly any
disease. It will be cheap, so in a few years everyone on this planet will have
access to world class medicine, nearly for free.
A Single Breath Disease Diagnostics Breathalyzer is under
development at Stony Brook University.
It would use sensor chips coated with nanowires to detect chemical
compounds that may indicate the presence of diseases or infectious
microbes. In the future, a handheld device could let you detect a range of
risks, from lung cancer to anthrax exposure.
Drug-delivering
Nano-robots built from DNA could be approved for use in humans within 20 years.
Right
now, the average life span increases by 3 months per year. Four years ago,
the life span used to be 79 years, now its 80 years. The increase itself
is increasing and by 2036, there will be more than one year increase
per year.
So we all might live for a long time, probably way more than 100.
So we all might live for a long time, probably way more than 100.
Insurance companies
and future
Insurance
Companies will have massive trouble because without
accidents, the insurance may become say, 100 times cheaper. The car insurance business model will disappear.
accidents, the insurance may become say, 100 times cheaper. The car insurance business model will disappear.
Robotics and Services
Robotics is beginning to influence many jobs, from
manufacturing to agriculture, and retail to services. According to the
International Federation of Robotics, the world now includes 1.1 million
working robots, and machines account for 80% of the work in manufacturing a
car. 22 Robots are streamlining supply chains to deliver more efficient and
predictable business results.
Rethink Robotics released Baxter in the fall of 2012
[16] and manufacturing industry liked this product. Rethink launched a software
platform that allows Baxter to do a more complex sequencing of tasks – for
example, picking up a part, holding it in front of an inspection station and
receiving a signal to place it in a ‘good’ or ‘not good’ pile.
The first robotic pharmacist in the US is expected to
be available by 2021. A company which makes precision castings for exports in
Lucknow, India, has recently installed a robot to carry difficult and risky job
of pouring the molten material from the ladle to the cast. This job is now
being done by this robot. The key benefit is that not only the accuracy
has improved but the plant capacity is also enhanced.
While humanoid robots can be painfully slow, Jimmy - a
Disney creation - moves with lifelike speed and grace [4]. A video posted
earlier this year shows the robot waving at people, doing a little
dance, drumming on a table. The
robot is very safe and can operate very near the real people.
The problem of movement and grip in space is well
known as Newton’s third law of motion applies. Both Gecko adhesive and Microspine
grippers [29] are well on their way to scoring a ticket to deep space. Gecko
adhesive is already being tested on the International Space Station. Right now,
astronauts are using it to anchor things to interior panels, but NASA is
considering using it as a replacement for Velcro. Microspines
are a crucial part of NASA’s
asteroid redirect mission: The little spikes will cover robotic arms used to
snatch up an asteroid’s boulder and deposit it in orbit around our moon. Further the robots using these technologies
will freely move and scale peaks on Mars in near future.
Self-driving Cars
(SDCs) [6, 11]
We are already seeing
trials of driverless cars from large companies such as Audi, Tesla and Google
to name a few, with a number of other enterprises viz. GM, Fiat Chrysler and
Ford are developing new solutions and want
to put their cars for show in less than 5 years. Apple seems to have some
thoughts on the project.
SDCs are likely to be
more efficient and safer than conventional cars with people driving the car.
Moreover, SDCs are likely to reduce congestion as well emissions.
In
2018 the first SDCs will appear for the public. Why should one own a car today
especially in urban areas? This
question comes to one’s mind, particularly, when you can call a car with your
phone and a car will show up at your location and drive you to your destination.
You don’t have to worry to park it, you
only pay for the driven distance and can be free to do anything you like.
If
one extrapolates this scenario, one will soon realize that children in future will
not need a driver's license as they would not like to own a car. Further, it will change the cities,
because we will need very few cars to meet the requirement. Parking space allocated
in the cities is likely to get free and can be converted into parks and thus
change the landscape.
Worldwide
about 1.2 million people die each year in car accidents. We at present have one accident every 100,000
km, but with SDCs on road, this rate is likely to fall to one accident in 10
million km. That will save about million lives each year.
Uber
has already launched its driverless taxi fleet in Pittsburgh, USA [6]. The cars have lasers, cameras and number of
sensors but no driver. The cars are to be operated by the web based
application. To begin with the riders will be accompanied by two technicians
well trained to take over driver’s role if the situation arises. This shows
that driver less cars will be perfect much earlier than 2030.
With the driverless cars becoming popular all driving Jobs in other
areas will also disappear. Along with driving vehicles, the
transportation industry has a huge number of supporting roles that will also
vanish. Virtually every vehicle that requires a human operator today will find
itself competing with an autonomous version sometime in the future. Road
construction and repair is a huge industry that will eventually be taken over
by unmanned bots and drones.
As we move from owned to shared vehicles, much of the transportation
economy will also disappear. Here are a
few more of our soon-to-be-forgotten professions. There are a number of businesses that keep
our cars operational and looking good. These too will dwindle over time. Because of all the things that can go wrong
in today’s congested traffic, many other issues will also disappear. With
cars today only being used 4% of the average day, we build a massive parking
infrastructure to accommodate both the long-term and short-term storage of
unused vehicles. These will all lose their importance over time. In an
autonomous vehicle era, most police departments will shrink to a fraction of
their current size. Future highways will not require near as many safety
features. While we will still need to
repair roads in the future, repair activities will no longer be a major
impediment to the flow of traffic. Traffic
law has grown to become a significant portion of the justice system penal code.
In our autonomous future, every car will be driven exactly the same way, so
ageist, sexist, racist and regional driver prejudices will cease to exist [22].
Smart Cities
A smart city is supposed to have more than 50,000
inhabitants and no traffic lights, smart trash collection; Government services available
online and has intelligent lighting systems. India wants to make 100 smart cities in next 5
to 10 years [25]. Many cities will
connect services, utilities and roads to the internet. These smart cities will
manage their energy, material flows, logistics and traffic using internet and
software apps.
Progressive cities, such as Singapore and Barcelona,
are already implementing many new data-driven services, including intelligent
parking solutions, smart trash collection and intelligent lighting. Smart
cities are continuously extending their network of sensor technology and
working on their data platforms, which will be the core for connecting the
different technology projects and adding future services based on data
analytics and predictive modelling.
Real
estate will change. If one can work while you commute then people will
move further away to live in a more beautiful neighbourhood. Electric cars
won’t become main stream until 2020. Cities will be less noisy because all
cars will run on electric.
Wearable Tech
As per SNS research report [26] wearable device
shipments is likely to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 29%
between 2016 and 2020. By 2018 and 2020, wearable devices market will be worth $12
and $40 billion respectively. Leading
smartphone OEMs, Apple and Samsung are already in smart watch market with a
combined share of nearly 75%. New business models will emerge, particularly, in
the enterprise space. More than 56 million Health and fitness related wearable
devices will be used by people by 2018.
Conclusion
Digital connectivity for everyone to almost everything, anywhere and at
any time will be the fundamental change which will make services possible and
available to a common man. Further, a set of mechanisms or tools for analysing
and using the data associated with almost all aspects of daily life will also
be available easily for use. Next big thing is the type of jobs in 2030,
particularly, as many business models would have changed and jobs with new
skill set will be there.
The concept of driving license and ownership of cars may be thing of
past mainly in the cities and driverless cars will be available for hire. 3D
printing will become popular and shoes, multi-story buildings, food and even
human organs may be printed using 3D printers.
Flying drone [15] swarming over most metro areas may seem annoying but people
will ignore this as the benefits of their presence in new businesses, jobs,
information, data analysis, new career paths, and revenue streams will outweigh
the dislike issue.
The new technology will show its negative side like noise, pollution,
mid-air crashes, terrorist activities and more and many will question its
value. But this is a highly evolving
scenario where problems would be resolved quickly as they are observed.
Computers will be everywhere including our clothes, our
fashion accessories, and even in our contact lenses [27].
We can use them through natural language or haptic interfaces or even
these devices may perform autonomously under specific conditions. SpaceX founder [28], Elon Musk unveils plan to send
80,000 people to Mars. This might happen by 2030 although as per
progress on this project this might happen much earlier.
Reputations will rule the World by 2030.
Businesses will closely follow the rise and fall of their reputational
“credit ratings” on-line as closely as they watch their stock prices.
Practically businesses will know that their reputations are key drivers of
their growth and profitability. For example, you might choose one restaurant
over another when your mobile augmented-reality app flashes warnings about
health-department citations or poor customer reviews.
The technology may forecast a serious health problem before it really occurs,
and order the appropriate service – say, an organ custom made for you. With
data created on everything, safeguarding individual’s privacy will be a
major concern. The various aspects of the transition are hard to predict, but
it is not difficult to see that the world will function quite differently 15 to
20 years from now.
Attributions
“Boogie Board”
is a trademark of Kent Displays, Inc., registered in the U.S. and other
countries
“iPad” is a
trademark of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries
“SIRI” is a
trademark of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries
“Galaxy Note”
is a trademark of SAMSUNG, registered in the U.S. and other countries
“Baxter” is a
robot from Rethink Technologies
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[5]33 dramatic prediction for 2030
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[9] 2030 Vision makes creativity and
communications must haves
[10] Internet of Things
[11] Netflix, SPOTIFY – Autonomous
Driving?
[12] 3D Food Printing
[13] Organ Printing
[14] 3D Printed Shoes: A Step in
the Right Direction
[15] Reaching 1 Billion Drones by
2030
[16] BAXTER WITH INTERA 3
[17] Facebook’s Aquila takes off
[18] Explore International
Renewable, Energy Agency (IRENA) and more!
[19] 40 Percent People in India May
Not Have Water to Drink by 2030
[20]
Self-Filling Water Bottle Converts Humid Air into Drinkable H2O
[21] Will
Artificial Intelligence Improve Democracy or Destroy It?
[22] 128
Things that will disappear in the driverless car era
http://www.futuristspeaker.com/job-opportunities/128-things-that-will-disappear-in-the-driverless-car-era/
[23] 3D-
Printing
[24] World
agriculture 2030: Main findings
[25] Indian
Government –A perspective by Dr. RGS Asthana, Senior Member, IEEE
[26] The Wearable Technology
Ecosystem: 2016-2030 - Opportunities, Challenges, Strategies, Industry
Verticals and Forecasts
[27] This
contact lens could eventually make Google Glass obsolete
[28]
SpaceX
founder unveils plan to send 80,000 people to Mars
[29]
NASA’s Gecko inspired robots can climb pretty much anything
[30] Farewell Clippy:What’s
Happening to the Infamous Office Assistant in Office XP
http://news.microsoft.com/2001/04/11/farewell-clippy-whats-happening-to-the-infamous-office-assistant-in-office-xp/#3ZwHHBKaOqZaKHes.99
http://news.microsoft.com/2001/04/11/farewell-clippy-whats-happening-to-the-infamous-office-assistant-in-office-xp/#3ZwHHBKaOqZaKHes.99
[31] Big Data
[32] The drone boats in Amsterdam’s canals will do more than float
