Twenty top predictions for life 100 years from now
Last week we asked readers for their predictions of life in 100 years time. Inspired by ten 100-year predictions made by American civil engineer John Elfreth Watkins in 1900, many of you wrote in with your vision of the world in 2112.
Many of the "strange, almost impossible" predictions made by
Watkins came true. Here is what futurologists Ian Pearson (IP) and
Patrick Tucker (PT) think of your ideas.
Any other prediction that you can think of for the future??
3 comments:
In the future we’ll be to recover almost all illness by intelligent robots that will recognize, immediately, when we have a health problem in a usual check-up. The doctors will have our health history and, with the help of the computers, will find a solution for each sick.
I can hardly make a prediction, or even think about my vision of the world in 2112. We are living hard moments. But I think from the crisis may arise the most important changes.
I read other predictions but, in my view, these are only for science or technology, about expensive equipment, for which only a few will have access .
But, what will happen with human beings and with our most basic needs in 2112? I'm refering particularly to the need of food, resources, job, education, health and love.
I would like to make a prediction about human rights, a prediction of hope for those who are invisible in 2012 such as unemployed, homless, elderly, immigrants, sick people, especially psychiatric patients, to mention a few. My prediction is for them:
In 2112 everybody will have a job that will make possible to take care of themselves and their family.The governments will invest enough money in health and education for all the citizens. No one will be invisible, and the weakest will be the most protected by million of dedicated and highly trained workers.
Why not?
So wonderful predictions and good reflection on the current society!!
Well done, Isabel and Sarah!
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