These are the everyday things you do now that won't exist in 100 years.
If you're still alive to see 100 years from today- and the odds are
good- you might be amongst the first humans to be given the opportunity to live lifespans of
thousands of years, or potentially even forever. Working at the molecular level, nanomachines
will be able to repair DNA damage caused by the millions of replications your DNA undergoes over
your lifetime. You'll simply upload a template of your DNA when you are young and healthy,
and nanomachines will work furiously to restore damaged DNA or simply replace it altogether.
This will mean that in the future, we can say goodbye to lengthy doctor appointments.
Evolution in tech will also remove the need for dentists, which many of us are very thankful for.
After all, who likes having needles and drills shoved into their mouths?
By 2021, you won't even have to brush your teeth. You'll simply
wear a mouth-guard like device twice a day, which will automatically scrub your teeth,
getting into every single nook and cranny. The ultimate in cavity prevention,
daily treatments will stop plaque before it even gets a chance to form.
Your morning routine will change from having to walk around the house half asleep while brushing
your teeth to just waking up refreshed and ready for the day as, in the future, you won't need an
alarm clock. Your body will naturally wake you up when you want it to. A small programmable army of
nanobots will be able to create the chemicals that make you fall asleep and wake you up.
You'll finally be the master of your own sleep cycle, and you'll wake up fully refreshed and
ready to start your day each morning at the time of your choosing, looking back with pity at your
backwards ancestors who had to battle the snooze button while risking losing their job.
As well as waking you up, these nanomachines will keep us healthy,
meaning that, in the future, you won’t have to call the doctor, the doctor will call you.
Thanks to bio tracking, wearable computers will constantly monitor your health. Everything from
blood pressure to respiratory rate and even the presence of infection will be instantly recorded
and sent to your healthcare professional, who'll review the data to make sure you're in good shape.
Basically, what Tesla’s do today with their cars, doctors will be able to do with our bodies.
These medical professionals will only have to approve the treatment
as the nanobots inside your system work away to treat and strengthen your body.
Even though these nanobots seem like magic, they will have their
limits meaning that many of us will be advised not to play dangerous sports.
Sports with the highest risk for injury will stop being played by people as it will be seen as too
much of a danger to do so. Although nanobots will be able to fix and maintain your body,
they wouldn’t be able to handle a major injury quickly enough.
Instead, all of the players in the NFL, NHL and NBA will be replaced by robots.
The teams and sponsors of these leagues will also change. As tech giants grow in the future,
you might be able to watch a game of football between team Apple and team Microsoft.
The influence of these companies might not stop at sports as companies like Amazon,
Apple, and Facebook will grow more influential by 2121. This means that it’s only going to
be a matter of time until they gain enough influence to overthrow governments or just
pay enough to take over countries peacefully. In the future, we will see countries that are
run by the rules of a megacorporation rather than the rules of a president.
These megacorporations will rule with an iron fist, with their only goal being to make as
much money as possible. If business is going well, living in such a place
might be pleasant. But as soon as profits decline, you might need to work overtime.
This will most likely not happen as in the future, we will see jobs being phased
out as we have seen throughout history. In the 70s increasing automation started
to take a toll on the once-lucrative and well paying blue-collar jobs of auto
manufacturing. As globalisation developed, the blue-collar jobs that had once provided
a comfortable life and path to the middle class for millions suddenly disappeared.
In 100 years, we are likely to see the same thing happen but on a much more radical scale. In fact,
if you want to have a job one hundred years from now, it's best to get into fields that
require things machines are not very good at, empathy and artistic skill. Unless we find a
way to emulate consciousness, something very unlikely, even the most advanced
artificial intelligence will never be able to replicate true empathy and artistic skill.
This is why the job of a soldier will never be replaced by a machine. Even so,
we hope that this job will be phased out due to cultural changes as by 2121,
war will be a thing we look back to as being barbaric. With technological advancements in
AI and machinery, war won’t be worth fighting. Like many things,
this too will be mechanised; only a few squad leaders in ultra-protective exoskeletons will
be present on the battlefield. Otherwise, wars will just be fought between machines.
Instead of using this new technology to fight for the limited resources on earth,
we will use the technology once used for killing to explore planets and set up colonies,
beginning with the moon and mars. If what Elon Musk is doing with
SpaceX has been getting you excited, you should be looking forward to 2121. In the future, humanity
will reach for the stars and start colonising our solar system. This means that rather than
going on holiday to Paris, you will be able to go on a weekend getaway to the Moon or Mars!
The people who live in these colonies will be able to experience a life similar to the life
we live on earth, as by 2121, we will be able to replicate all of our living
conditions on other planets. This includes creating meat without wasting the limited
resources of a colony of taking care of animals. If you're an animal lover and a vegan, then good
news, because in the future, you too will be able to enjoy all the delicious bacon you could want
without the guilt. That'll be because farming will require the harvesting of exactly zero animals,
all thanks to lab-grown meats. While the concept may seem a little strange and off-putting,
current lab-grown meat techniques in use even today are simply replicating the very same process
the body naturally uses to grow meat over bone, making it indistinguishable from normal meat.
In the future, as these techniques are refined, the price of meat will plummet,
and the sheer ease of manufacture and availability will make meat an option on every family's menu on
earth and beyond, while today it remains a once a week or even once a month treat for many.
Your future luxurious life will be made even easier by the fact that even your transport
will be automated. Even if you love or hate driving, you will have to accept that by 2121
driving licenses will be phased out. All cars in the future will be controlled by advanced AI,
which will mean that inconveniences such as traffic jams will become something out of the
ordinary rather than an everyday occurrence. Automating driving will make your entire
experience with transport safer and quicker, allowing you to do more of the things you enjoy.
These new cars won’t be powered by fossil fuels though as, the way we power almost everything
will change in the future once fossil fuels are phased out. Once we master nuclear fusion,
which is essentially the opposite of nuclear fission which we use now, we will have unlimited,
cheap and green power. These reactors will be so powerful that three of them will be
able to power the entirety of the United States, with some electricity to spare!
Getting this energy to everyone will also change as, in the future, every electrical device will
be charged wirelessly and at all times, leaving behind the times when you had to run out of the
house but your phone was out of charge. Through a network of electricity towers, anything from your
phone to your new driverless electric car will be able to charge on the fly, making
the inconvenience of using a cable to charge your devices seem like a barbaric necessity.
Removing charging cables from our lives won’t be the last radical change we see
in the future as we will also see society itself change when we won’t have anymore...
Society as a whole will change as, in the future, we are likely to see the
entire world move away from the current standard for prison punisment towards the
Scandinavian [sarcastic] prison system. Although it has prison in its name,
the Scandinavian prison system has no real similairities to what we imagine prison to
be like. In countries that have adopted this system, like Sweden, prisons seem more like
a holiday home than a place of punishment. Inmates live in housing complexes that look
more similar to college dorms than an actual prison and are allowed to walk around freely
without being monitored by guards. Some are even allowed to go out to specially designed
schools for inmates and work towards a degree. This system has proven to work as compared to
the rest of the world, Sweden has some of the lowest reoffending rates. In
the future, this will be the standard for rehabilitating criminals across the world.
Another big change, especially for our older viewers, will be that cable television will
be phased out in the future. Except for live events, you will be able to watch anything you
want on demand on specialised services like Netflix. Moving scheduled events to be on
demand won’t be exclusive to just TV shows, though, as you will also be able to watch your
school lessons and college lectures whenever you want from the comfort of your own home.
Spending more time at home might not be the most appealing prospect for many. Even so,
this experience will be improved by the fact that, in the future, chores will be automated. In 2121
we’ll have robots who take care of the house for us, making sure the floors are hoovered,
your clothes are washed and folded, and the dishes are always done. Even shopping for
food will be made easier as your AI controlled fridge will be able to detect when you run out
of certain foods and automatically order them to your doorstep. You won’t even have to take the
shopping to the fridge as your robot butler will take care of that before you even notice.
Not having to do chores will leave you with plenty of time to focus on other,
more important things in life, such as your physical health and looks. Working on your
look will be made much easier as, by 2121, plastic surgery will be a thing of the past.
You will be able to change your DNA on the fly. Tired of being a brunette and want to try out
being blonde for a few years? Simply alter your DNA to change the pigment
of your hair - sure the process will take a while to kick in as new hair grows. Having
the power to radically change your appearance by hacking your own DNA will be at your fingertips.
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