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Tour of the Future - 2057

by Jim Pinto | from Pinto's Archive


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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