Tour of the Future - 2057
How would YOU like to take a tour 50 years in the
future?
Discovery Channel has a 3-episode series: "2057
- The Body, The City, and The World". Each episode
is about 45 minutes. This may be the first broadly
disseminated video series to look out so far into
the future. It was brought to my attention by
fellow Futurist John Smart (yes, that's his name,
and he's one of the smartest people I've met).
Here's a quick summary of what you'll see on
the videos:
The Body
- Smart clothing
- Self-flying cars
- Artificial blood
- Medical nanotech (microbubbles)
- Iris scans (shades of Minority Report)
- Tissue engineering
- Brain machine interfaces
- Telesurgery
- Living to 200 years
The City
- Holograms
- Intelligent agents
- Self-driving cars
- Automatic braking systems
- Subterranean highways
- Humanoid robots
- Cybercrime
- Face recognition
- Predictive criminalistics (Minority
Report)
The World
- Peak Oil, Global "Energy Crisis"
- Space elevators
- Nanotube production
- Nuclear Fusion
- Global warming
- Smart personal armor
- Invisibility cloak
- Electroactive polymers
- Laser satellite communication
Interesting quotes:
"In the future, optional health insurance could
consume up to 25% of your salary, but it will
provide medical miracles."
"To compete with oil or coal, solar panels
need an efficiency of 50% or more."
"It is 10 times lighter, and 100 times
stronger than steel. It is called a carbon
nanotube."
Each of the 3 segments is good edutainment. If you
have a couple of hours to spare one evening, take
a look - you'll see how my grandson will be living
when he's 55.
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