Inspired by ten year predictions made by American civil engineer John Elfreth Watkins in , many of you wrote in with your vision of the world in Many of the "strange, almost impossible" predictions made by Watkins came true. Oceans will be extensively farmed and not just for fish Jim We will need to feed 10 billion people and nature can't keep up with demand, so we will need much more ocean farming for fish. But algae farming is also on the way for renewable energy, and maybe even for growth of feedstock raw materials or resource extraction via GM seaweed or algae.
PT: Good chance. This water could go to thirsty populations. We will have the ability to communicate through thought transmission Dev 2. Transmission will be just as easy as other forms of brain augmentation. Picking up thoughts and relaying them to another brain will not be much harder than storing them on the net.
Synthetic telepathy sounds like something out of Hollywood but it is absolutely possible, so long as "communication" is understood to be electrical signals rather than words. It is more likely that direct brain links using electronics will achieve this, but GM will help a lot by increasing longevity - keeping people alive until electronic immortality technology is freely available at reasonable cost.
The idea that breakthroughs in the field of genetics, biotechnology and artificial intelligence will expand human intelligence and allow our species to essentially defeat death is sometimes called the Singularity. There is already some weather control technology for mediating tornadoes, making it rain and so on, and thanks to climate change concerns, a huge amount of knowledge is being gleaned on how weather works. We will probably have technology to be able to control weather when we need to.
It won't necessarily be cheap enough to use routinely and is more likely to be used to avoid severe damage in key areas. We will certainly attempt to. A majority of scientists in the US support a federal programme to explore methods for engineering the Earth's climate otherwise known as geoengineering.
These technologies aim to protect against the worst effects of manmade climate change. Antarctica will be "open for business" Dev 2. The area seems worth keeping as a natural wilderness so I am hesitant here, but I do expect that pressure will eventually mean that some large areas will be used commercially for resources.
It should be possible to do so without damaging nature there if the technology is good enough, and this will probably be a condition of exploration rights. PT: Pretty close. Before there is a rush to develop Antarctica we will most likely see a full-scale rush to develop the Arctic. Whether the Arctic states tighten control over the region's resources, or find equitable and sustainable ways to share them will be a major political challenge in the decades ahead.
Successful if not necessarily sustainable development of the Arctic portends well for the development of Antarctica. This is very plausible. We are already seeing electronic currency that can be used anywhere, and this trend will continue. It is quite likely that there will be only a few regional currencies by the middle of the century and worldwide acceptance of a global electronic currency.
This will gradually mean the others fall out of use and only one will left by the end of the century. In , Qatar had the highest income per capita in the world while people living in Andorra had the highest life expectancy, living on average five years longer than the wealthy Qataris, to the ripe old age of Back in , the wealthiest nation was the Netherlands, where people lived to almost 40 — the best average life expectancy in the world at that point, matched only by the Belgians.
The short answer: rich people live longer. In the middle income countries, life expectancy ranges from just 50 in Swaziland to 75 in Vietnam. Josephine Moulds , Freelance journalist,.
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