Author: Голос будущего/The Voice of the Future
The Voice of the Future team, which included participants from India, Yemen, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, participated in the online Forum due to the pandemic. The team members analyzed 6 models and various scenarios of the future, collectively forming a holistic model of the future. These are Climatic, Vector-gradient models, Artificial Intelligence, Technical structures, Age-old stagnation, Industrial Revolution. The vector-gradient model was developed by the team members themselves. Within the framework of this model, three future scenarios were investigated and proposed: negative, realistic and positive.
Negative scenario of the future: The Earth will become uninhabitable, most people will live in artificial colonies outside the Earth. Almost all animals will die out, and people will be forced to wear protective suits all the time. This will become the new norm. All food and plants will be grown outside the Earth. People will become completely dependent on artificial intelligence for their survival and will be busy searching for a planet suitable for life. Man will begin to terraform other celestial bodies to obtain energy and, possibly, directly suck energy from the Sun.
A realistic scenario of the future: humanity will achieve an increase in productivity, create a higher level of labor safety by reducing jobs in dangerous conditions, competitiveness will increase, fundamentally new products will appear, and much more. A number of events in a realistic scenario will be a continuation of earlier stages of innovation in production, such as the creation of the machine tool industry, the invention and development of methods for the production of interchangeable parts.
An optimistic scenario, a version of the desired future: from 2028, the influence of artificial intelligence on education will significantly increase, all the advantages of artificial intelligence and smart technologies will be used to create a more advanced learning environment. Online or digital education mode will become the new norm. After the significant spread of artificial intelligence on Earth, colonies will be created in space, where the implementation of smart technology projects will begin in early 2050 or 2055. Hydropower, electricity and wind will become energy sources, but solar and thermonuclear technologies, along with nuclear energy, will prove more promising.
As a result, taking into account the development of artificial intelligence and digitalization in all spheres of society, humanity will enter a new stage of evolution at the end of the 21st century. The transport potential and habitat in the space sector will be significantly increased. However, the population will be controlled to the maximum extent, and thus most people will remain living on Earth. Man will create space colonies and will move in outer space and possibly even beyond the universe in order to expand his knowledge of the universe and contact other possible life forms. Terraformed asteroids will appear to generate energy, megastructures will be built, which will make humanity one of the most advanced civilizations in the universe. Perhaps a business and other relationships with extraterrestrial life forms will be built. Food and resources will be more than enough. Artificial intelligence will be used in all spheres of life to speed up work and for personal gain. People will become immortal, and the crime rate will drop to zero.