So, how will the world look in the coming decades?<\/p>\n
A day in the life of a young doctor<\/h2>\n
It\u2019s 2050. A young doctor named Tom\u00e1s is asleep. He\u2019s very productive: Several years ago he got a brain implant, and it helps him study while sleeping. He already knows seven languages and is now learning an eighth. When he wakes up he will know sixty new words and two verb cases.<\/p>\n
However, Tom\u00e1s decided to save his money and order a free language course with ads. So, overnight four advertisements are transmitted directly into his brain. When he wakes up he\u2019ll feel a strong desire to drive to a certain new bakery.<\/p>\n
His morning is pretty normal. He brushes his teeth (even in 2050 people still have to brush their teeth!), eats his breakfast, and reads the latest news on the Internet. His house looks strange for today\u2019s tastes, though: no displays anywhere. Instead Tom\u00e1s uses smart contact lenses to browse the World Wide Web, so the images appear right in his eyes.<\/p>\n
After breakfast Tom\u00e1s goes to his car and starts it with a simple gesture thanks to a special chip implanted in his hand. The chip stores his passport and other authentication data. The car greets the owner with a ready route to work (which today will include a short stop at the bakery).<\/p>\n On the road, Tom\u00e1s speaks to his friend with the help of his smart contact lenses. She likes his new haircut and stylish beard. However, Tom\u00e1s hasn\u2019t actually changed his appearance \u2014 he just added these things to his virtual image.<\/p>\n After a short stop for coffee, Tom\u00e1s meets Tom\u00e1s-2 in the office. Tom\u00e1s-2 is the virtual assistant that helps Tom\u00e1s do his work. He has already signed a few papers for the staff office and checked to make sure the medical robots have kept everything under control. All patients are doing fine, so Tom\u00e1s can get to consulting new patients right away.<\/p>\n Tom\u00e1s lives in Barcelona, but his first patient, Herr M\u00fcller, is in Munich. They connect via a private and protected channel using the very same contact lenses. Herr M\u00fcller has a home medical robot that does blood testing and other analyses and sends the results to Tom\u00e1s, so that Tom\u00e1s has all the data he needs for work.<\/p>\n At the end of the workday, Tom\u00e1s feels like he deserves a break. He goes to the antisocial park \u2014 a place where anybody can behave as they want and do whatever they want without anyone seeing them. Today Tom\u00e1s is Batman. He has the exoskeleton and he needs to find his way out from Arkham Asylum. Two hours later, Tom\u00e1s leaves the park tired but satisfied: He reached level five before things got too difficult.<\/p>\n Coming home he sends a wake-up command to his girlfriend, Tina. When he arrives she meets him with a happy smile, gentle kiss, and warm words. Once again, he thinks how real she seems and how easy it would be to forget that she is a humanoid robot. All in all, isn\u2019t he turning into a robot himself with all of his smart implants?<\/p>\n Many will read this story with a certain degree of skepticism. For example, futurologist Ian Pearson<\/a>, who helped us with Earth-2050 project, is sure that we will not<\/em> have robot medical attendants in the future. A neural network can substitute for a consulting doctor, but medical attendants\u2019 work is different: They provide emotional support to patients, which is too hard for a robot. In fact, he thinks medical attendants might be in greater demand than doctors in the future.<\/p>\n Yet Ian is also sure that around 2030 we\u2019ll see robots with emotions \u2014 most probably, superhuman emotions that mere human beings would have a hard time understanding. All in all, the future is quite unclear and everybody interprets it differently, though we tend to agree about some general trends.<\/p>\n Ads transmitted right into people\u2019s brains \u2014 sounds unpleasant, doesn\u2019t it? Unfortunately, this prediction is very likely to come true. Stefan Tanase<\/a>, from our GReAT team, has no doubt that privacy is a very important part of human nature. However, we\u2019ve given it up to a great extent even now, in exchange for digital life benefits. It\u2019s quite possible that with time the very notion of privacy will evaporate \u2014 and people won\u2019t miss it because they won\u2019t understand what it is. Would you like this kind of future?<\/p>\n At the 2050.earth<\/a> website we\u2019ve published detailed forecasts made by GReAT experts and futurologists from various countries for three milestones: 2030, 2040, and 2050. Basically, the site looks like an interactive globe: Choose a city and see what experts predict for it and its citizens. Predictions can apply to a city, a country, or the whole world.<\/p>\n![\"Earth-2050:](\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/03\/06020901\/tomas.jpg\")
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Earth 2050: Let\u2019s create the future together!<\/h3>\n
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