You'll be able to purchase high-quality emotions online.
Emotion-sharing experiences are the latest
fad1 in 2045. Imagine your friend at Glastonbury can post a photo on Instagram and with it comes bundled a faint twinkling of what she was feeling right there in that moment, so you too can share emotionally in her social experience.
Our cities will be made from living, dynamic materials that respond to the environment.
The urban environment of 2045 blends architecture with living materials that are mouldable,
adaptable2, responsive and disposable.
Entirely3 new
synthetic4 life forms, or biological machines, made of engineered living cells from bacteria,
fungi5 and
algae6 will grow and evolve with the changing needs of a building’s inhabitants. They breathe in
pollutants7, clean wastewater, and use sunlight to make useful chemicals, energy, heat and
vibrant8 vertical9 gardens.
Humans will upgrade themselves continuously.
Those who can afford it will have better eyesight and hearing, and just the right
cocktail10 of food/medication to be the very best that they can be for the day ahead, based on micro performance analysis of the day just gone.
Your phone, car or home can read your feelings and adapt accordingly
Machines will be able to sense and then adapt themselves to the emotional state of an individual user. At the moment machines can work out where someone is, who someone is and perhaps what they are doing or "like" but that’s about it. The next stage will be for machines to intuit human feelings. This can be done by ‘harvesting’ facial expressions, body language, heart rate, voice and so on. If you are typing text into a computer the computer might consider the speed you are typing, decide you are stressed and conclude that this isn’t the best time to allow you to read negative emails.
If you are driving a car, the car might consider how you are driving and infer certain conclusions. If the car decides you are angry and in danger of driving unsafely it might adapt itself to make things safer. On the other hand a shop might use this technology to work out when customers are more likely to buy things, including things they probably don’t really want.
Robotic insect swarms11 will help farmers and the military
By 2045 we should see insect-sized robotic insects capable of flying in co-ordinated swarms. They might be used for crop
pollination12 purposes or as battlefield or crowd control cameras. These flying robots could be fitted with air
sniffing13 or sampling technology to test air quality, search for pollution or give early warning about biological or gas attacks. They could also be programmed to interact with real insects.
3D printed pizza
This was a kitchen device that could turn
raisins14 back into grapes and stale pizza into a freshly delivered snack. By 2045 many kitchens will feature a 3D Printer that can turn out a fairly respectable printed pizza, biscuits, pretzels and so on.