After 100 Years – What We Can Expect In the Future ~ Alex The Informer

Looking Through Our Future

For centuries, we have been fascinated by technology and how it could change our future. We never expected that the rate of advancements we have today is so significant that we can already foresee the evolution of our current technology. 100 years from now, there will be radical changes in almost all sectors of society. What we’re going to tackle on this post is the most obvious ones that will likely to happen in our lifetime.

As far as technology is concern, the year 2012 is remembered as the year of Wi-Fi technology and mobile gadgets. However, there were several innovations that are not that popular among the masses but will definitely affect our future. Here are some of the things we can expect in the next one hundred years:

Farming will move to the oceans – the population of the world now is around 8 billion and growing. We need to feed all these people and nature can no longer provide the needed resources. In the next 100 years we will definitely see farming communities that is heavily concentrated on the ocean. They will not only farm for fish but also algae, because technology will allow algae to be a source of renewable energy.

We will have the capability to control weather – calamities that is brought by storms, hurricanes and tornadoes will be a thing of the past. In the next 100 years, we will have a weather control device that can be used to mediate the weather. It can also be used to create rain and increase the chances of a better harvest. However, this type of technology can also be used as a weapon – making it a double edge sword.

Medical advancements will allow humans to live longer – we can expect that our knowledge with the human body will go beyond the limits. Nanobots will now be able to enter the body and heal broken tissues, remove cancer cells and accelerate the healing process. This will allow us to live longer but to be immortal will be another story.

Knowledge can be directly transferred into our brain – the next 100 years will be a golden age of knowledge, and we may no longer need schools to acquire those skills. You choose an area of specialization and everything about it will be transferred using advanced machineries. Anyone can now be intelligent but someone will always be extraordinary.

A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) can now act on their own free will – although this scenario may seem a bit freaky, especially if machines can go against us and declare their own independence. It is also likely that in the next 30 to 40 years, A.I. will be more autonomous when it comes to decision making. And military units all over the world will present a new type of weapon – the combat AI, where unmanned aircrafts and drones can react to any threat on their vicinity.

Through time, technology becomes more and more sophisticated but being high-tech has its pitfalls. Once we reached the point where we become too dependent on technology, then that’s the time we become less human and more of a machine.