With the rapid development of technology today, anything we think is impossible can become reality, just as people couldn't imagine the flourishing Internet 100 years ago. So what new technologies are likely to emerge in the next 100 years?
Here are 10 predictions today's scientists are making about life before 2100 that, if they come true, will change the world.
1. Internet-enabled contact lenses
Date of appearance: before 2030
Forecaster: Professor Babak A. Parviz of the University of Washington, Seattle
Can you imagine a day when surfing the Internet is as simple as blinking your eyes? Professor Parviz is currently working on a contact lens that may show you that anything is possible. The new contact lens is lined with a collection of leads. "These LED combinations can create images in front of your eyes," Parviz said. Most of the material is translucent, so people can wear it and move around."
The glasses will also recognize facial features and show the life story of the person they see. They will also be able to translate one language into another so that people can understand the subtitles displayed on the lenses. Students preparing for their final exams may be the first customers for the lenses, which will be equally popular with sci-fi fans.
2. Human organ shops
Date of appearance: before 2030
Predictor: Dr. Anthony Atala, Wake Forest University
In the event of a car accident or illness, people can order spare organs grown from their own cells from organ shops.
Scientists can now grow cartilage, noses, ears, bone, skin, blood vessels and heart valves. They grew their first bladder four years ago and their first windpipe last year. In about five years, scientists will be able to grow livers. Dr Atala said: "What we can foresee is a future in which we will be able to provide ready-made organs, where people will just take out the damaged organs and put in the grown new ones as needed."
3. Read minds
Date of appearance: before 2030
Predictor: Kendrick Kaye of the University of California, Berkeley
Current technology allows a chip to be implanted in the brain of a stroke victim who is paralysed and connected to a laptop. These patients will eventually learn how to edit emails, play video games and surf the Internet using their minds.
Kaye is compiling an "ideation DICTIONARY" and has developed a computer program that can decode brain wave signals. "It will be possible to identify a particular image that a patient is seeing from a large set of images and be able to reconstruct that image just by examining the activity in their brain," he said 39bet-kết quả bóng đá-kết quả xổ số miền bắc-kèo bóng đá -soi cầu bóng đá-đặt cược.
Honda, a Japanese company, built a robot in which helmeted workers could control its movements with their thoughts.
4. The resurrection of extinct animals
When present: Before 2070
Predictor: Dr. Robert Lanza, Advanced Cell Technology
In the future, we will be able to have zoos for extinct animals. Lanza was able to take usable DNA from animals that had been dead for 25 years, insert it into a cow egg, and nine months later, a cloned animal was born. In this way, the species has been resurrected.
Even though Neanderthals have been dead for tens of thousands of years, their DNA has been deciphered, so some scientists are debating whether to bring them back. "If we had the tools to control genes, then theoretically it would be possible to use genes to resurrect species," Lanza said. The question is, should we do it?"
5. Slow down the aging process
When present: Before 2070
Forecaster: Dr. Leonard Guarante of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Although no one has found an elixir of life, scientists can now tease out the process of cellular aging from a genetic and molecular perspective. Many genes that affect the speed of aging have been identified in yeast cells, fruit flies and worms.
Scientists have extended the lives of insects, mice, rabbits, dogs, cats and monkeys using "caloric control". So if you cut their caloric intake by 30% when you feed them, you can increase their life span by 30%. Guarente discovered the SIR2 gene, which may explain the mystery of "caloric control".
Deformation of 6.
Appearance: 2100 years ago
Forecaster: Jason Campeli, Intel
In movies like "Terminator 2" and "X-Men," physical transformation is the dream of scientists who study programmable matter. They made brain chips the size of a pin's cap, nanoscale microcomputers called atoms. These computer chips are programmed to combine in different ways depending on a given electric charge.
"For example, my phone is too big in my pocket and too small to play with in my hand," Campeli says. If I have 200 to 300 milliliters of [programmable] chips, I can make the phone whatever I want it to be. "In the next 40 years, this is going to be a very common technology," said Justin Ratner, a senior researcher at Intel.
So at Christmas time, all we need to do is download the software for our presents, then press a button, and the presents appear.
7. Build a starship
Appearance: 2100 years ago
Predictor: Dr. Mason Peck, Cornell University
Stars are so far away that even the nearest one would take our rockets more than 70,000 years to reach. But Peck believes the first starship will be a tiny computer chip, about the size of a fingernail.
Even if only a small number of chips reach the star, that's enough to send back valuable information. Dr Peck's idea is to launch millions of chips around Jupiter, so that the planet's powerful magnetic field will accelerate them to "tens of thousands of kilometres per second", and that this speed could be increased indefinitely until it approached the speed of light.
8. Beat cancer
Appearance: 2100 years ago
Predictor: Leroy Hodder of the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle
Today, when a tumor is found in the chest, it may have 10 billion cancer cells. But in the future, proteins released by just a few hundred cancer cells could be identified by a DNA chip mounted in the toilet, speeding up the detection of tumours by a decade. Since then, the word "tumor" has disappeared from the world.
The way people get tested will also change. "In June 2018, Sally pulled out a small device, pressed it on her finger and took a tiny drop of blood," Hord wrote. With this drop of blood, 2,000 different tests can be performed and the data wirelessly sent to a remote computer for analysis... "Tiny devices will test thousands of blood components, and DNA sequencers will be able to quickly decipher an individual's genome."
In addition, scientists have developed "nanoparticles," which are tiny molecules. These molecules can act like smart bombs to destroy cancer cells. In past trials, it has killed 90 percent of cancer cells in this way, which could revolutionise cancer treatment.
9. Human-robot fusion
Appearance: 2100 years ago
Forecaster: Rodney Brooks, M.I.T.
In a few years, robots may have the same intelligence as mice, cats or dogs, or even monkeys. By that time, some people thought the robot might be dangerous. It has been suggested that we should implant chips in their "brains" so that they can be turned off when they have bad thoughts. But other people say, why don't different robots merge? And that's exactly what Brooks, a former head of the Artificial Intelligence lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, thinks.
"Fifty years from now, we will be able to see fundamental changes in the human body through genetic modification," he said. The human population will be transformed in ways unimaginable today. We will find ourselves no longer constrained by Darwinian evolution. My prediction is that by 2100, our daily lives will be filled with intelligent robots, and we will not be able to distinguish ourselves from them. We will also be robots and will be connected to robots."
The advantage is that one day when you wake up, you will find your body is perfect: beautiful, super strong and immortal.
10. Space elevators
Appearance: 2100 years ago
Forecaster: Bradley Edwards, founder of Carbon Design
Wouldn't it be cool to imagine that one day you could walk into an elevator, press the up button and be in outer space? This is the space elevator, and it will make the dream of opening the universe to tourists a reality.
Currently, it costs about 50,000 to 30,000 yuan to launch something weighing about 2 or 2 kilograms into low Earth orbit, but a space elevator could greatly reduce the cost and allow ordinary people to travel in space.
The space elevator's crew capsule is able to move on tens of millions of meters of cable, which is held in place by the centrifugal force of the Earth's rotation. Carbon nanotubes are one step closer to achieving this dream. Edwards has shown that nanotechnology can be used to make super-strong cables capable of supporting a space elevator.
"Building a 200-ton elevator is a reasonable idea and has commercial value," he said. A 200-ton space elevator is about the size of a large business jet. The size of a space elevator is entirely up to us and not limited by any physical level."