The visionary and futurist Ray Kurzweil, who was hired by Google several years ago, often bombards us with provocative but often accurate predictions, such as that a computer will beat a human at chess (it already happened) and that we will be surrounded by autonomous vehicles vehicles (already happening). It is also known for the theory of singularity, a concept that futurists like Kurzweil use to explain the development of the world from the point of view of technological development.
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The German motorhome manufacturer Hymer took us into the near future with the Hymer VisionVenture concept motorhome. In the year 2025.
iMom is a short film that will make your hair stand on end. And not because it's a horror film or a horror film in the genre sense of the word, but rather an eerie prediction of our future, when technology, here we mean mainly humanoid robots, will begin to take over basic human roles, such as parenting or raising children. Babysitters will soon become obsolete, and surrogate mothers will step in like robots. Are you afraid of such a future?
Jaguar and Land Rover have come up with a new concept technology that would instill greater confidence in people in autonomous vehicles. The project was called 'virtual eyes', and autonomous 'cabins' were equipped with them.
It wasn't long ago when screens on the backs of the front seats in airplanes were science fiction, when a call from a height of 11 thousand meters was impossible, let alone a wireless network. Today, all this is taken for granted. And those phones on airplanes. Those are long gone. As well as there is no longer a user who only wants to fly. Here is now a technologically "aware" traveler. The range is suitable for this, and airlines, including NASA, are always on the hunt for improvements.
The same numbers on the clock?! Have you ever wondered why you often see the same numbers on the clock, such as 11:11, 22:22 or 12:12? This is not a mere coincidence, but may have a deeper meaning.
Ever wanted to peek into the future? In fact, we all think about the future all the time, but we cannot predict it. Except what we will eat the next moment or wear the next morning. What about our surroundings, our villages, our cities? We can show you how Dubai, Moscow and New York will look like in 32 years.
Have you ever wondered how the world will change in your lifetime? Modern technology is inexorably entering our lives, yet we do not know exactly when some everyday objects will become a thing of the past.
What will man be like in 1000 years? Will it even look the same then? We can only guess that it will be roughly the same, but history teaches us that there is always something unpredictable that completely changes the course of evolution. AsapScience, which has devoted itself to this topic, has therefore taken into account many scenarios that could happen on this long journey in its prediction. Will we be half robots then? Today, humanity speaks 7,000 languages, by which time the number is expected to shrink to just 100. But what about lifespan? How far can technology take us?
What do you have planned for next week? And next year? Have you ever thought about what you will be doing in 250 million years? Probably not. But you might be wondering what the Earth will look like then. 250 million years is enough for its face to change as well. So many years ago, a meteorite flew to our planet, wiped out 90 percent of all living things and left an imprint in the form of a crater in Antarctica. But that is the past.
The Tokyo Motor Show served up many novelties and concepts. We have selected some of the most interesting ones and presented them briefly. The central thread of the salon was primarily in innovation and technology, which we will witness in the next decade or even before that.
GQ magazine asked leading men in individual fields who the successful men of the coming quarter of a century are.