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(78,249 posts) Thu May 14, 2015, 04:48 PM May 2015

7 Top Futurists Make Some Pretty Surprising Predictions About What The Next Decade Will Bring [View all]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/12/futurists-next-10-years_n_7241210.html

From smartphone apps that can do seemingly everything to driverless cars and eerily humanlike robots, the past decade has seen dramatic advances in science and technology. What amazing advances are we likely to see in the next 10 years?

To find out, HuffPost Science reached out to seven top futurists -- and they gave us some pretty surprising predictions. Keep reading to learn more....

"In the next 10 years, we will see the gradual transition from an Internet to a brain-net, in which thoughts, emotions, feelings, and memories might be transmitted instantly across the planet....

We will spend considerable time in virtual and augmented realities allowing us to visit with each other even if hundreds of miles apart. We'll even be able to touch each other. Some of the 'people' we visit with in these new realities will be avatars. They will be compelling but not quite human level by 2025 -- that will take to the 2030s. We will be able to reprogram human biology away from many diseases and aging processes, for example deactivating cancer stem cells that are the true source of cancer, or retard the progression of atherosclerosis, the cause of heart disease.

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7 Top Futurists Make Some Pretty Surprising Predictions About What The Next Decade Will Bring [View all] KamaAina May 2015 OP

We will struggle.... daleanime May 2015 #1

Let them eat virtual victuals. Comrade Grumpy May 2015 #2

At this point I love the advances mentioned yeoman6987 May 2015 #3

I hope so..... daleanime May 2015 #6

You are right yeoman6987 May 2015 #16

vertical farming, in vitro meat, aquaponics Bosonic May 2015 #10

Everything will have to be on the table (no pun intended) including..... daleanime May 2015 #11

Paging Dr. Malthus, call on line one for Thomas Malthus. tritsofme May 2015 #19

and will be hard to keep our population hydrated Backwoodsrider May 2015 #54

Futurists in 1970 overlooked the possibility of oil shortages pscot May 2015 #4

+1 daleanime May 2015 #7

In the meantime, our home is being poisoned and species are going extinct. Avalux May 2015 #5

I sooo disagreed with that assessment of reality. At the end of the show Freeman said something Dont call me Shirley May 2015 #72

3D printing and augmented reality are going to be quite amazing. NuclearDem May 2015 #8

3D printing is going to be a very big deal. hifiguy May 2015 #9

That is what I was thinking - no one else will be able to afford them. jwirr May 2015 #46

Look at the predictions made in the '50s and '60s. -none May 2015 #12

Or even the stuff people were predicting in the late 90's - look at Ray Kurzweil for an example of Chathamization May 2015 #18

Kurzweil is an utter kook. longship May 2015 #29

And don't forget living to be 150 years old. jwirr May 2015 #48

Here's what Walter Cronkite had to say in 1967 about the living room of 2001 Art_from_Ark May 2015 #23

how fun! thanks! n/t renate May 2015 #69

the most important thing we will learn in the future olddots May 2015 #13

I'm reminded of this cartoon... Fumesucker May 2015 #14

Problem with predictions is the assumption of status quo haele May 2015 #15

I like your predictions far better than those of the experts. SheilaT May 2015 #17

Not to mention the energy and resources (and money!) needed to fulfill these futurists' predictions. arcane1 May 2015 #30

Even more interesting. SheilaT May 2015 #50

Pay no attention to those minor details IDemo May 2015 #20

I was a kid in the 'sixties and and a teen in the 'seventies. hunter May 2015 #21

Things that have devolved: Airline travel. KamaAina May 2015 #33

I'm curious. How old are you? SheilaT May 2015 #51

I fled high school for college in the mid 'seventies. hunter May 2015 #65

I am ready for driverless cars! nt Logical May 2015 #22

As are many people with disabilities. KamaAina May 2015 #34

+1000! Nt Logical May 2015 #35

I'm elderly. I could actually get around on my own again. jwirr May 2015 #49

In the 1950s futurists imagined people would actually have computers in their homes in the 21st tblue37 May 2015 #24

Yea, but his Suit is making a comeback postatomic May 2015 #26

It's for the "Hard Drive" Warren DeMontague May 2015 #27

What about that wall-mounted monitor up around the height of a basketball hoop! nt tblue37 May 2015 #28

It's to distract from that huge steering wheel on the left. Orrex May 2015 #62

No IDemo May 2015 #32

Still, I want one for my home. longship May 2015 #42

OK--but it's still fun, and there sure were plenty of equally absurd tblue37 May 2015 #70

When we first started getting home computers SheilaT May 2015 #68

And HuffPo's, TOP FUTURISTS PREDICTIONS ABOUT THE NEXT DECADE FOR THE 90% appalachiablue May 2015 #25

Taking them in order... Scootaloo May 2015 #31

Google Glass users now known as Glassholes. nt longship May 2015 #41

Science fiction writers are way better at prediction the future--both the kinds f technology tblue37 May 2015 #36

Indeed. KamaAina May 2015 #37

And they had tablet computers and clamshell cellphones ("communicators") on tblue37 May 2015 #39

Hell, Dick Tracy had an Apple Watch! KamaAina May 2015 #67

Ender's Game predicted the blogosphere and pseudonymous pundits way back in 1985 LeftyMom May 2015 #52

He was a big time Atari 800 fan back then, maybe still is, like me. hunter May 2015 #64

Ray Kurzweil himself is already in the midst of the uncanny valley. R&K nt longship May 2015 #38

Plus, I have absolutely no use for Michio Cuckoo. longship May 2015 #40

I don't put much faith in futurists. Blue_In_AK May 2015 #43

I'd believe a futurist who said "99% of this shit ain't gonna happen" Throd May 2015 #45

During my college years two of my professors were futurists. They always seemed too optimistic jwirr May 2015 #44

"7 top futurists" lol - where do I get a futurism Ph.D.? closeupready May 2015 #47

That was my exact thought. Orrex May 2015 #61

As long as we're playing, let me... jmowreader May 2015 #53

Since people are jumping on the futurist bandwagon, here are my predictions, based on when Humanist_Activist May 2015 #55

Here's some futurist predictions lovemydog May 2015 #56

There's no digging our way out with a virtual shovel Freelancer May 2015 #57

Sort of along those lines, I like what this guy lovemydog May 2015 #58

Far fetched. I would say those predictions Oneironaut May 2015 #59

Wealth disparity and the decline of society will continue. Despite more technological CentralMass May 2015 #60

Cool treestar May 2015 #63

I predict ... sendero May 2015 #66

I hope meat "cloning" takes over so we can stop brutally torturing cows, pigs, etc. Arugula Latte May 2015 #71

We could stop that right now if we so desired KamaAina May 2015 #74

If we don't fix this inequality thing we have going on, life is going to suck for many of us. It wil Dont call me Shirley May 2015 #73