• Question: What do think the world will be like in 10 years time?

    Asked by njade to Ben, Dave, Ed, Sam, Susana on 25 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: David Briggs

      David Briggs answered on 25 Jun 2013:

      Pretty similar to how it is now, I imagine.

      Unless something massive happens, life will still be inherently unfair, with some people living a rich carefree life and some people starving.

      In terms of technology, computers will be smaller and faster – we might even have “wet-ware” – imagine if your smartphone was built in to your hand or something – that would be cool .

      Hopefully cars will be more economical, and we will be using less and less energy to try and preserve what we have left, but I’m not going to hold my breath…

    • Photo: Susana Teixeira

      Susana Teixeira answered on 25 Jun 2013:

      What a cool question! Let me ramble about it then…
      I started my University studies just over 20 years ago. There was no internet in Portugal then. On my 3rd year one of my teachers told us that in the following 5 years we’d all have a mobile phone. He said we’d even be able to see the other person at the end of the line in the next 10 years or so. We all laughed, cause mobile phones were brick size luxury things that only Presidents and top military had, in films mostly! We saved data on floppy disks, and my teachers still talked about punch-cards. Books were heavy and all indispensable, objects that we covered in plastic and loved so that they could last for a life time…

      So the next 10 years will probably bring many changes too! It is an important transition period, with recession being a very serious reality worldwide, as is the need to use resources better and VERY IMPORTANTLY invest more in solidarity. We’ll be able to save more and more data in smaller and smaller devices. I am guessing our use of the internet will become heavily regulated. Public cinemas as we know them may approach their end: people will pay to watch films at home. Scientists will start focusing on diseases that afflict older people much more than they have done so far. Quality of life for people who need prosthetics will improve significantly. And hand written letters will come back, as a more difficult to trace means of communicating with privacy, and a means of us having something nice to stick in our fridges (some things do not change!) 🙂

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      Sam Horrell answered on 25 Jun 2013:

      Technology and science is always moving forward so you never know what might be around the corner. Even as sceintists there are plent of things going on in other fields that we have no idea are even happening. I’m personally hoping for hover cars or some sort of hover transport. Movies have been promising us them for years and its time science delivered.

    • Photo: Benjamin Hall

      Benjamin Hall answered on 26 Jun 2013:

      Much the same but I hope we’ll be less reliant on fossil fuels.

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