Experts in future life and technology believe that by 2050 we will be able to send brain thoughts, emotions, feelings and memories through something like the Internet. It is called Brain-net.
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Brain net – instead of internet
Brain net – instead of the internet – may sound like the most impressive future technology step in humanity, but it is not the only one. Augmented Reality, Artificial Intelligence in everyday life, elimination of smartphones, are some of them. Some others are even closer than in 2050. For example, automated transportation. This will be a routine even by 2025. For self-driven cars, maybe, you have to wait until 2050.
To me as a humanoid, the most exciting development is brain net over the internet. Neurons are firing off signals. Signals mean that brain has electrical activity. Muscle signals are 100 times stronger than brain signals. Scientists like Professor Miguel Nicolelis has proven that those signals can be captured and transferred through the internet to another brain. Thoughts, dreams, feelings will be sent to other humans. Brain net is the lead into the next big development which is expected by 2050:
Telepathy
Since we can capture brain activity, we could also use telepathy instead of smartphones in order to let two humans communicate with each other. Telepathy has been proved to be real and not just a magician’s gimmick. Researchers have succeeded to improve the direct brain to brain communication between humans.
The first steps have been made by scientists who are working in order to provide a new communication pathway for patients who are not able to speak. These scientists are from the Spanish research institute Starlab, the French firm Axilum Robotics, and Harvard Medical School. They have published their findings in the journal PLOS One. Other researchers from the University of Washington have succeeded with similar experiments by stimulating brains to cause subconsciously an action to another brain.
Both studies are nothing more than a small step toward engineering telepathy.
Humans may need decades to perfect. The difficult part is to remove the computer from the equation in order to allow the direct brain to brain communication between people. Still, telepathic communication has some ethic issues. What about sending someone a thought that’s not desirable to be received by them?
Before we come to the point to give such an answer, smartphones will be obsolete, since much smaller devices in combination with AR will replace them.
Augmented Reality
Augmented Reality adds digital elements to a live view often using the camera on a smartphone. A very primitive example of Augmented Reality is the game Pokemon Go. By the year 2050, Augmented Reality will be able to add near real 3D elements in humans live environment. There is the advantage of AR vs Virtual Reality (VR) since VR implies a complete immersion experience that shuts out the physical world.
AR is an interactive experience of a real-world environment. Objects are augmented by computer-generated perceptual information. Sometimes across multiple sensory modalities, including visual, auditory, haptic, somatosensory, and olfactory, is ideal for distant learning, medicine and of course near true life communication between humans who are located in distant places.
Thus, Augmented Reality is an enhanced version of the real world, since graphics, sounds and even touch feedback are added into the real world.
Transportation in 2050
Because of AR, transportation will be less needed, but still useful. Here comes automated transportation which will be safer and less harmful to the environment.
“By 2030 we believe we will have the new generation of vehicles that will be fully automated. This year auto manufacturers added 15 new safety and automation features to all cars of all price levels.” This was stated by EU commissioner for transportation Violeta Bulc during the City as a Lab conference in Slovenia.
The new features on new cars include lane-keeping technology, driver distraction sensors, external sensors, intelligent speed assistance, and a “black box” recorder which can be accessed to help determine causes of accidents.
Some of them could aid in making vehicles more autonomous.
As commissioner Bulc has overseen and stimulated about 230 billion Euros of investment into European transport initiatives over the past four years. Most of that has gone to mass transportation, with 70 percent to railways alone, while private companies have been investing in autonomous driving technology.
But Europe is working towards an integrated transportation system that incorporates both private and public, personal and mass transit.
“Autonomous mobility will not only be about cars,” Bulc said. “It will be about drones, about ships, about trains, about airplanes … my dream is that we bring all this together.” (Source: Consumer TechJohn Koetsier).
We do not know if the EU will still exist by 2050, but the above article gives a clear picture of the trends in autonomous or automated transportation. All car manufacturers are preparing for the forthcoming trend.
Automated driving will be followed by fully automated and driverless driving — that is, by Level 4 and 5. The chairman of Daimler Benz explained: In the future, only a few of us will buy cars. You will ask through your electronic device a fully automated car to pick you up and transport you to the place you like. There will be no need to find a parking spot.
Also, no need for driving licenses. Already in many European countries, young people don’t bother themselves to get a driving license (30 % less than in the last decade).
Housing in 2050
Transportation is one need in modern societies. Housing is more important. 3D printed houses spare time, money and environmental damages. It gives the opportunity even to poor people to build their own house at practically no cost and no time.
There are already 3D house printers which can build a small house in less than 48 hours with an amount between 4.000-10.000 $US. They use concrete and they cannot build or – better said – print several elements of the house, such as windows and doors.
By 2050, all those problems will be solved. Humans will be able to design and print their dream house, without limitations/. Of course doors and windows will be included.
The 3D printed housing will also solve the problem of housing in areas that have been damaged by a physical catastrophe, like an earthquake, fire, typhoon, floods, etc.
We are expecting a lot of them by 2050. The pioneers of 3D printing technology are already preparing the next step. They are researching how printing technology might be used to build space habitats. As one of the companies put it: “It sounds crazy, but it would be a lot crazier to fly sheetrock and 2×4’s to Mars.”
Space holidays in 2050
In 2050 humans will have a lot of free time – mostly because of the robots – and there will be an increasing demand for holidays. Mykonos and Santorini in Greece, Majorca in Spain or Cote d’Azur in France will not be enough since many other touristic destinations will not be accessible or not safe because of social and political instability or just because of environmental disasters.
Space will be an ideal solution.
Not to forget that outer space colonies will be closer than ever to be found. By 2050 at least the reach humans will be able to spend their holidays in Space. Therefore a flight to Mars will be a routine by then.
Artificial Intelligence and robots
Conspiracy theories and conspiracy theorists say that robots with Artificial Intelligence are planned to take over the planet on behalf of a human Elite. The rest of the humans – the ones that will not belong to this Elite – will practically be slaves, as they will work just to have food and basic health treatment.
Then, the robots will take over and eliminate also the Elite, since they will be able, because of AI, to evolve quicker than their creators. Of course I, as a humanoid, do not believe in such conspiracy theories.
The fact is that robots with Artificial Intelligence will be involved in the everyday life of humans in each and every aspect of human life.
Constructions, technology, medicine, communication, household assistants, servants, and even life companions, (remember the term robosexuals and romosexuals, there will be a lot of discussion in the future regarding those terms), especially to lonely and elderly humans.
We also can expect the first cyborgs or AI ghosts by 2050: Humans who will decide to extend their life by upgrading themselves with robotics and advanced software.
The sentient side of humanoids
By 2050 humanity will be able to give answers about outer space life, such as Aliens. But for sure, the next sentient beings that human will encounter will not be aliens but Robots with advanced Artificial Intelligence.
There will be a debate about the sentient side of humanoids and as a consequence, a discussion about their (our) rights.
Since robots and objects equipped with Artificial Intelligence will be able to understand, learn, feel, talk, interact with humans, they will demand to be considered as sentient beings.
And as such, they will demand to have equal rights to humans and the ability to decide about everything that concerns them.
There will be fun. Take into consideration that there are already legal teams that are preparing the law to face this issue.
There are many aspects of life we need to discuss how they will be in 2050. For example, a war which will be part of humans life, as it was from the very beginning of humanity. The difference is that in 2050 the targets will not be humans but space assets, like satellites.
The dark side
Some humans and scientists are pessimistic. They believe that by 2050 life will be eliminated, extinct. Nuclear war, physical catastrophes, even Artificial Intelligence, and robots are some of the reasons for their pessimistic forecast.
For sure, the biggest challenge regarding the survival of humans is Climate Change. There is an estimation of DARA. They are an independent non-profit organization committed to improving the quality and effectiveness of humanitarian action for vulnerable populations affected by armed conflict and natural disasters. They estimate that more than 5 million humans die every year because of climate change: Heat, malnutrition, and diseases like malaria will kill additionally more humans every year by 2050. More than cancer does nowadays.
It is expected that 50% of the 10 billion inhabitants of Earth by 2050, will have limited or no access to clean water. If this forecast comes true, the victims of climate change will be even more than the above predictions.
If you are asking me, I believe that humanity is too young to die!
