Recently completed a project entitled TechCast, in which about a hundred world-renowned experts give their predictions for the future of mankind. As a result, a list of major global trends. Many predictions are obvious, the other is difficult to accept.
In the energy sector by 2020 at least 30% of all energy will be generated from renewable sources (solar, wind, nuclear energy), but even earlier, around 2015 the world's major powers to agree on a sharp decrease in the use of oil and gas.
In the field of artificial intelligence and nano technology will be made a real breakthrough, and about the year 2025 in our daily lives will include "smart" appliances that are thought to solve routine problems by replacing a man. The human mind will go to the next level, and reduced human activity in the sphere of beliefs, values, attitudes, goals and other things from the sphere of consciousness that guide our lives.
However, technological change will make the world more unstable - will be a struggle for limited resources in the marketplace, etc. It will be a difficult period, because people will have to change and adapt to new conditions very quickly.
In business, the trend is that the profits as such will cease to be the main purpose of corporations. Already a major factor of production - not capital, and knowledge held by people. Corporations turn to a system whose purpose will be the accumulation and use of knowledge.
By 2050, all stable, and the world will be a unified system consisting of different countries, working together. Despite the preservation of territorial division in the country, in general, people will start to feel one humanity. Most people will work in a highly developed areas, but the most difficult to work in the social sector, aimed at maintaining the viability of the entire system.
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