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The World in 2030.

posted by janrinok on Saturday January 24 2015, @12:03PM   
from the your-guess-is-as-good-as-mine dept.

AnonTechie writes:

Politico Magazine asked 15 other big thinkers and doers for their ideas of what will change the world the most in the next 15 years. We got back lots of inspiration—from the transformative power of opening up national borders to the commercialization of the human genome—and one dyspeptic dissenter. Read on, for a sense of the possible in the world of 2030.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/01/15-big-breakthroughs-in-2015-114486.html

Would you agree with their predictions? What would surveillance be like in 2030? Would we have any freedoms at all, any privacy?

• Re:mostly the same (Score: 2) by tathra on Sunday January 25 2015, @03:46AM

  by tathra (3367) on Sunday January 25 2015, @03:46AM (#137763)

  one thing i understand is that the evolution of technology is gradual, not leaps and bounds.

  i would say its both. technology improves gradually until a breakthrough is discovered which changes everything for everybody (eg, how to make fires hot enough to melt ore, how to reliably get a specific amount of carbon into molten iron, how to turn steam into work, etc), even if it takes a little while for everybody to learn about it and make use of it. we'll continue with the gradual improvements - more, faster, more efficient, etc - until our next breakthrough or two. quantum computers, room-temperature superconductors, and biological-computer interfaces (ie, "brain chips") will probably cause the next revolution, allowing for things we can't even imagine right now, and hopefully we'll have them all figured out within the next 20 years.

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