These 5 technologies will change the world by 2050

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Perhaps changing the way we live as profoundly as the Internet.

https://reason.com/video/2023/02/07/5-technologies-that-5-billion-will-use-by-2050/
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Since 1996, the number of people using the Internet has increased from around 40 million to around 5 billion, or 60% of the world's population. There is Internet access in the slums of India, the rice terraces of Vietnam and the favelas of Brazil.

That's a massive change in 27 years, or my entire life.

Venture capitalist Paul Graham recently asked on Twitter: "What are 36 million people using now that 5 billion will eventually use?"

Here are my predictions for five technologies that could overtake the world by 2050, perhaps changing the way we live as profoundly as the Internet and solving some of our most vexing problems, which almost always involves creativity and innovation, not regulation. or government spending.

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When French artists envisioned the year 2000 in 1900, they were too conservative in their predictions, unable to imagine a world that would have done away with cumbersome propellers, electric cables, and cumbersome machines in favor of more streamlined and efficient household tools. more effective. , transportation and food production. Everyone also seemed to think that airships would be very important.

No one predicted the massive changes that would occur due in part to the exponential increase in computing power. Perhaps these predictions are also limited by our imagination.

The details are difficult to know, but I am convinced that by 2050, technological creativity will have made mundane tasks obsolete, will have freed us from the constraints of biology, and will have collapsed distance and time in a way that will make constraints of the physical world less and less relevant.

Written by Liz Wolfe; Cameras by Jim Epstein; Editing by Regan Taylor.

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