专家预测2045年世界会是什么样子

 

Emotion-sharing experiences are the latest fad¹ in 2045. Imagine your friend at Glastonbury can post a photo on Instagram and with it comes bundled a faint twinkling of what she was feeling right there in that moment, so you too can share emotionally in her social experience.

 

The urban environment of 2045 blends architecture with living materials that are mouldable, adaptable², responsive and disposable. Entirely³ new synthetic⁴ life forms, or biological machines, made of engineered living cells from bacteria, fungi⁵ and algae⁶ will grow and evolve with the changing needs of a building’s inhabitants. They breathe in pollutants⁷, clean wastewater, and use sunlight to make useful chemicals, energy, heat and vibrant⁸ vertical⁹ gardens.

 

Those who can afford it will have better eyesight and hearing, and just the right cocktail¹⁰ of food/medication to be the very best that they can be for the day ahead, based on micro performance analysis of the day just gone.

 

Machines will be able to sense and then adapt themselves to the emotional state of an individual user. At the moment machines can work out where someone is, who someone is and perhaps what they are doing or "like" but that’s about it. The next stage will be for machines to intuit human feelings. This can be done by ‘harvesting’ facial expressions, body language, heart rate, voice and so on. If you are typing text into a computer the computer might consider the speed you are typing, decide you are stressed and conclude that this isn’t the best time to allow you to read negative emails.

 

If you are driving a car, the car might consider how you are driving and infer certain conclusions. If the car decides you are angry and in danger of driving unsafely it might adapt itself to make things safer. On the other hand a shop might use this technology to work out when customers are more likely to buy things, including things they probably don’t really want.

 

 

By 2045 we should see insect-sized robotic insects capable of flying in co-ordinated swarms. They might be used for crop pollination¹² purposes or as battlefield or crowd control cameras. These flying robots could be fitted with air sniffing¹³ or sampling technology to test air quality, search for pollution or give early warning about biological or gas attacks. They could also be programmed to interact with real insects.

 

 

This was a kitchen device that could turn raisins¹⁴ back into grapes and stale pizza into a freshly delivered snack. By 2045 many kitchens will feature a 3D Printer that can turn out a fairly respectable printed pizza, biscuits, pretzels and so on.

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