Earth 2050: Tag #society

2050 Alcatraz

Even in the year 2047, there are still prisons on Earth. Detention conditions, however, have much improved, and initiatives aimed at teaching convicts to earn an honest living have entered a new stage of evolution. Robotization has rendered manual labor uneconomic, so detainees stopped felling trees

# AI # government # society

2050 Barcelona

"How was your date? Tell us what you think about this person. Do they look like their photos? Are they a good listener?" the Algo Date app wants to know the next morning. "The more details you give, the better we can match you up next time," the system continues relentlessly. In

# AI # human # society # love

2050 Athens

In view of lockdown restrictions and the mass shift to remote communication in many walks of life (work, study, personal relationships), the problem of distinguishing a human from a robot is especially acute. The development of malicious AI that feeds on personal data has led to the emergence of fake

# AI # society

2040 Wuhan

Dating app questionnaires have changed dramatically by 2030. Now immune and genetic status is just as obligatory as hair color or favorite music, if not more. It all began after the now distant COVID-19 pandemic. Many online daters back then started to specify that they had been vaccinated or

# communication # medicine # society # love

2030 Sao Paulo

With the development of sensors, big data and augmented reality, face to face service channels will significantly improve customer experience. An attendant will have in real time quick tips on how to make customer experience more pleasant and frustration-free. Imagine a customer entering a shoe store

# society

2040 Dresden

The future of art: renewing the classics

Art, like science, never stands still. The year 2043 sees the emergence of the hyperfuturist art movement. The heirs of the neofuturists, they relish the victorious march of technological progress, viewing universal digitalization, virtualization and cybernetization as a blessing, all the while

# art # society

2030 Sun City

Globally, the number of people over age 60 will increase to 2 billion in 2050. This will change our attitude toward aging and result in mass infrastructure dedicated to geriatric health services, housing, entertainment, transportation, etc, to the point that the concept of cities/countries exclusively

# society

2050 Moscow

Predictions about the future tend to overestimate the speed of technological development in the short term. Such development is never a leap forward, rather a smooth, gradual, complex process that unfolds over a relatively long period of time. In 2050, humankind will see improved current technologies,

# society

2030 Sao Paulo

People will be rated on how environmentally friendly their lives are based on the different choices of transportation, food, practices at home and purchases. This footprint will be calculated in real time leveraging mobile technologies and the IoT. The ratings will be used in the calculation of taxes

# nature # society

2030 Paris

Saturation and discontent with existing social networks will lead to the emergence of new social web services offering a real and pragmatic alternative. For example, web services that rule out anonymity, in which the use of real names is mandatory, with or without a photo. Essentially, they will be like

# communication # entertainment # society

2050 Riga

My prognosis is based on the idea that you can partially observe another human being’s mind if you transmit information between the two brains using electronic implants. I consider this a possibility after looking at the case of Tatiana and Krista Hogan, conjoined twins who can share their experiences

# biotech # communication # society

2030 St. Louis

Everyone loves a winner! Not all winners are created equal, though. The year is 2030, and the Bowling Hall of Fame across the street from the St. Louis Cardinals Baseball Stadium closes down. Participatory sports that require one to leave one’s home have gone out of vogue, replaced by VR gaming

# society # sport

2050 Kusatsu

Human body tech: from prostheses to immortality

As areas of technological progress go, human body modification is one of the most exciting — yet one of the most unpredictable in terms of potential impact. The benefits are undeniable. Losing a limb will no longer be a stigma — far from it. Mass production of artificial organs, from hearts

# biotech # human # medicine # society

2050 Rabat

The first underwater city is built near Rabat (in the Atlantic Ocean) in 2040. The city is named after Jacques-Yves Cousteau. The majority of the city’s population is scientists and engineers. They have two important goals. The first is to find a way out of the phosphate crisis by exploring underwater

# city # construction # energy # society

2050 Rabat

Cute but old-fashioned wind turbines are replaced by more advanced wind generators. These towers are shaped like huge cyclone funnels. They reach higher than the clouds and can use the strong winds present at great heights. The air inside the tower is accelerated by pressure differences, and this increases

# energy # nature # society

2040 Sao Paulo

New religions will rise and their followers will worship Artificially Intelligent God entities. Humans will look for advice and guidance from a better-informed higher entity with more wisdom and knowledge than the entire human race. Similar to the role that virtual assistants have in today's world,

# AI # society

2050 San-Franсisсo

By 2050, autonomous robots are commonplace but rarely used in the military due to their cold and unpredictable nature. Only humans seem mentally and morally fit to make the hardest military decisions. That being said, humans still fight wars – just not directly. Combining the values of human

# robots # society

2050 Barcelona

News reports about personal data leaks tend to be about credentials for bank accounts and other online services. However, it is biological data that will soon be the most valuable kind. Unlike passwords and bank accounts, biodata cannot be changed, so the effects of any leak will be lifelong. Already,

# biotech # society # love

2050 Prague

The world's first Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) has emerged. Deeper understanding of human brain and the understanding of existence itself has allowed the reverse engineering of complex cognitive models that resemble those of a real human mind. It was the new period of AI winter which led

# society # AI

2030 Phoenix

In order to maintain their military-industrial complex and their place as the world's policeman, the leaders in Washington will start having to make drastic budget cuts. In spite of the size of the AMA and other lobbies who don't want it, Congress will pass a bill to adopt universal healthcare

# medicine # society