As the new year is fast approaching, many of us wonder what the coming year is preparing for us. For such curious people, we have compiled a list of 14 predictions for the upcoming year. Add this article to bookmarks to then check whether any of them came true!
- Internet access will be available from 85% of the Earth's surface. It will mainly become wireless and very cheap.
- Computer programs will learn to create art objects that people are capable of creating, or even better than them. AI-generated paintings, musical compositions, and sculptures will appear. AI can already write songs, create paintings and books.
- Paper books will become uncommon. The primary means for viewing texts will be thin, lightweight, portable displays with very high resolution. More and more people are switching to Internet media.
- There will be more Tesla cars on the roads.
- Flexible smartphones-bracelets will become more affordable.
- Ford will begin producing self-driving cars at affordable prices.
- Male birth control options will be on sale.
- Mass production of self-driving cars from Baidu will begin.
- 5G networks and Bluetooth 5 will be widely used around the world. Widespread use of the Internet of Things.
- In Japan, AI will choose treatment for lung and breast cancer.
- An effective heat shock protein-based cancer drug will be widely tested.
- Mass production of artificial meat that can be bought in any supermarket will begin.
- Swedish scientists will decipher the language of dolphins.
- End of fundraising for the construction of the space station of the independent space nation of Asgardia.
- A drug based on YKL 06-061 protein, which makes the skin tan even without the sun, will be developed.