Hello and welcome back to the Most Amazing Channel on the internet!
I am your host Rebecca Felgate and today we are talking about the Top 10 Scary Things
that Will Happen In The Future… let me know if you were born before or after the millennium
in the comments section down below?
I was born before…
I was a 20th Century baby!
That makes me sound old now, hey!
Before we talk future tech, I want to talk about some current tech making our lives better
– I want to talk about our video sponsor BUNZ!
We talked about them in a previous video - I love Bunz ! Bunz is all about trading and
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Like I said, Bunz have their own currency, the BTZ, and they have just launched ads on
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There is a link to the BUNZ app in the description box – when you download it, put my name
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Since the last video I used my BTZ bunz money to trade for a game called the RESISTANCE…which
is pretty futuristic … so lets get back to the future shall we!
10 - Goodbye Banks hello paying with our eyeballs Money is going to be obsolete sometime in
the near future – by that I mean physical paper and coins… it costs to make it and
circulate it, and soon well all just be paying with tap… and then, cards will go obsolete
and we’ll be paying with our phone.
I use my phone to pay with my BTZ all the time in local stores and it is so handy!
It’s just a simple barcode…and I can also really easily send money using the app too.
One day the need for banks will basically be eradicated – especially with cryptocurrencies
and blockchain.
THEN….. one day even further in the future, when we are all connected to the internet
and wearing our smart contact lenses, we can likely just pay using the blink of an eye.
9 - Hello Mars, Hello Aliens?
MARS!
I am very pro Mars.
I mean I am very pro space in general.
Sadly we lost our Mars Rover Opportunity this year but in 2020 we have a new Rover set to
be launched, touching down in the Jezero crater in February 2021.
Beyond that, The Mars One mission is planning a manned mission to Mars as soon as possible,
which would be absolutely history making itself.
That being said, imagine what we will find?
Could we …find aliens?
Well, probably not in the way that we think, but one day I am confident we will find signs
of life somewhere in the observable universe… or it will find us!
8 - Chemical Terrorism While using chemicals in warfare has been
done in the past – for example mustard gas in World War one and two – it is now considered
to be a human rights violation and is not accepted by the UN.
It is unlikely that chemicals will be used in traditional warfare, but sadly it is likely
that terror attacks will take a devastating turn in the future if the wrong people learn
how to manipulate certain chemical equations.
The deadliest substance in the world is thought to be a form of botox but its exact makeup
is only known by a few for this very reason.
In 1995, the Aum Shin-rikyo doomsday cult attacked the Tokyo subway system with sarin.
13 people died and thousands were injured.
The fear is that this could be mucccch worse.
7 - Talking to the dead Ray Kurzweil is the director of engineer at
Google.
Ray Kurzweil also believes that we can bring back the dead.
Sort of.
Remember that episode of Black Mirror – Be Right Back – where Hayley Atwell brings
back her boyfriend from the dead via social media analysis of his accounts replicating
his personality – like that….or something kind of like the whole dad drama in West World?
The Google employee has been gathering documents, letters, photos, videos of his late father
on mass.
He thinks that one day will be able to recreate his dad.
He said: I will be able to talk to this re-creation," "Ultimately, it will be so realistic it will
be like talking to my father… but it won’t be though.
What do you think about this … I am not sure it will be helpful to chase a ghost…
if my boyfriend died and I could bring him back, of course I would, but where would it
end?
He would really be dead and I would never move on..I would never find someone else or
have kids…
If my mum died, of course I would bring her back in this way too but it would be…
I mean how could I spend any real time with her?
It isn’t the same.
6 - Advertisement Is the New Normal We are already living in a heavily advertised
world, and this will only increase.
Right now we use Facebook and Instagram and youtube etc for free, with the trade off being
that we have to watch advertisements…well this will only increase the further we advance.
Bringing it back to my mates at Bunz – their new Advertisement platform allows me to make
money if I watch an add – this is great for advertisers and me because I get to make
some money I can actually spend…
While I totally trust Bunz, I have to say the future of advertisements may be intense,
we may no longer even realise we are being advertised to!
5 - Population 10 billion It took over 200,000 years of human history
for the world's population to reach 1 billion; and only 200 years more to reach 7 billion.
In my life time alone, the population of the world has boomed by over 2 billion.
There are 135 million babies born each year, but just 56 million deaths… while the birthrate
has slowed since its height between the 50s and 80s, there are still more people born
that the number of people who die.
We are expected to hit population 10 billion in 2060, so most people watching this are
likely to be around in the next 40 years… some say they think the population will peak
and decline as birth control and education become wider spread.
With more people in the world, illnesses will spread more quickly more resources will need
to be used to sustain us.
Sustainability WILL become a key focus for our survival… we wont be able to handle
mass meat and dairy farming…we will have to look at better eco options.
Similarly we wont be able to live the consumerist lifestyle we do right now – with mass produced
goods and clothes….which is why our mates at Bunz are once again looking like a great
option.
I totally understand the need for a new outfit, but it isn’t in the interest of sustainability
to always buy new threads.
I have got some great outfits from swapping on bunz!
4 - Yellowstone The Yellowstone Volacano will very much erupt
one day.
It is inevitable.
When, we don’t know.
How much damage it will cause, well speculatively a heck of a lot, but hopefully we will be
able to respond to minimize the chaos with enough advance warning.
Yellowstone saw large eruptions 640,000 years ago, 1.3 million years ago and 2.1 million
years ago.
If you so some quick math, it seems we could be in the eruption date range.
If it does happen, well, aside from the 1000 degree flowing lava, the ash cloud could drop
fall out over a 500 mile slash 800 kilometre radius from the epicentre of the eruption.
Annnd the jet stream could carry some ash as far away as Europe.
Other than the immediate horrifying loss of millions of lives, Airport closures, breathing
issues, sulphur dioxide in the air causing a ten year long winter… crop failure…
it wouldn’t be a pretty picture.
So….
We have that to look forward to one day… or if not us, our great great grandkids !
3 - Jurassic Park We are legit just a few decades away from
opening up a real Jurassic Park…although we likely wont start with dinosaurs straight
away, but with woolly mammoths.
In 2010, a 39,000-year-old carcas of a Woolly Mammoth was found in Siberia, Russia.
Scientists called the young female Yuka and she was the best preserved mammoth in the
history of paleontology - researchers even found blood in her veins, and are working
on isolating her DNA so they can clone her!
The Permafrost is melting and revealing hidden secrets from the past.
One icy cap that is melting fast is Antarctica… far fetched perhaps but say we found a preserved
dinosaur with blood still in its veins, we could bring that back to….
Although should we.
I’ve learned anything from Mr Spielberg, the answer is no.
Everything we do will be recorded – how, via
2 - Spy Dust at number 2 Smart Dust was invented by Kristofer Pister
of The University of California.
The concept was thought up in the 1990s and now we have the technology to actually make
it happen.
Smart Dust is actually spy dust – the tiny motes are the smallest possible devices that
can electronically communicate with one another - they have transceivers, they are filled
with censors and little lazers.
They can store data and wirelessly communicate with the cloud.
Perfect little spies, you can barely see them.
In 1999 the motes were 5 millimetres long.
20 years later they are even smaller.
Eventually the plan is for them to be small enough to remain suspended in air, buoyed
by the currents, sensing and communicating for hours.
Spy Dust was actually a term first coined in reference to a KGB agent used in the Cold
War by Soviet Russia.
Agents in Moscow tracked Americans by applying a very nearly invisible powder to their clothes,
possessions, cars etc so they could track their movements.
1 - Robot Lovers It is going to happen….
Forget VR Sex, humans will start taking robot lovers.
They already exist – Matt McMullen is the CEO of Realbotix and RealDoll and has creator
a robot lover called Harmony.
A lot of people are worried about the sexbot revolution.
They think it will mean people will stop being intimate with one another and that it will
further unrealistic expectations in the same way the adult movie industry has.
Is it cheating if your partner does it with a robot?
I feel pretty uncomfortable about it.
Beyond lovers, it seems like humans could have robot partners if they wanted, kind of
like the hologram girlfriend in Blade Runner … but… physical and animatronic….
I feel weird about it.
WELL that was that!
That was the Top 10 Scary Things That WILL HAPPEN in the future – I understand that
change can be scary, but also it can be great….generally speaking living in the future is going to
be way more convenient for us humans!
And if you want a good way to start – start with Bunz!
You can trade and pay for things using your phone!
We have a link to the BUNZ app in the description box, make sure you check it out and also say
it was rebeccafelgate - who referred you….here’s a screen shot of my profile, we
can be friends!