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As you saw in part 1, some predictions are not too far off while some are still way deep into the realms of science fiction. The thing with those predictions is that most of the time the person writing them will take the fastest growing technology of that time and assume that it’s gonna keep growing at that same rate for years. In the 60s people thought we would be on mars by this time. Not too long after it was robots and supercomputers.

If I was to take that same approach, I would say that in 40 years, because of the emerging scientific discoveries of stem cell research, genetics and nanotechnology, the average human life will be around 130 years, as we find ways to rejuvenate our organs when they start getting sick and old.

We will run out of oil and find new cleaner ways to make cars work, which will push other industries to do the same with their products. This will clean the environment and prevent global warming. We will resurrect modern animal species that got extinct because of human activity through genetic engineering. Healthy processed foods will be cheap and delivered throughout the world ending famine, poverty and industrial farming. Robots will do the most dangerous or boring work for us while we can spend our days doing sports, paint or learn how to play a new instrument. We will have nanobots integrated into our bodies to make regular checkups and take care of malicious cancer cells, viruses and other disease.

Our brain will be connected to a computer implant which will help us with memory, mathematics and logical reasoning. We will be able to communicate telepathically through a world wide wireless network. We will be able to upload our consciousness into a personal, customized virtual heaven before we die. Mindvertizing will emerge and we won’t be able to think about hamburgers without hearing McDonald’s annoying new theme song in our mind. We won’t be able to sneeze without seeing a box of kleenex. We won’t be able to have an erection without thinking about that new ribbed, vibrating, cherry flavored brand of condom. We will have a new kind of mental illness called “the tourrette’s spamdrome”, which is when someone shouts random rants about erectile dysfunction or weight loss programs.

The World-State motto, Happy, Healthy & Cooperative.”, will be written on each street corner in big, upper-capped, drop-shadowed Comic Sans. The government will know where we are and what we are thinking about all the time. They will have the power to make us say, think or do whatever they want. They will turn us into fearless obedient soldiers by the push of a button so we can go and fight the ongoing war between us, the mutants and the robot rebels for total control of the space missile system, using ferocious inter-connected, self multiplying, virus infected nanocreatures. We won’t mind because while doing that our hacked, computerized brains will put us into a dreamy LSD-like state of mind, while our bodies perform automated tasks. This war will be ongoing and never ending, as each party can only cripple the other one temporarily because each one will have unlimited amounts of soldiers and medical health at their disposal. Powerpoint 2046 will be updated to an automated design software which will design graphics for you at voice command and will be mandatory, lowering the quality of design worldwide and making graphic artists obsolete.

As we live long and healthy lives and are aware of our “virtual immortality” through mind transfers, we will lose all philosophical connection with disease and death, which will disconnect us with the purpose of living. Virtual reality will be so real and immersive that most of us will find excitement and adventure inside those worlds and will become uninterested in real world issues. Monkeys will evolve into an intelligent nomad species and take over parts of eastern Canada.

So get prepared to a brave new world of warring peace, blissful ignorance and slaving freedom. With robots and monkeys.