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One hundred years from now we will probably get email via a wireless Ethernet from an implanted network interface directly into the language processing centers of our brain (or stored for later processing in a memory chip). Some of us may get to experience this, given the accelerating rate of increase in life expectancy due to advances in health sciences. The big question is whether the barrier of light speed in either communication or travel will have been broken in 100 years. Undoubtedly, we will be served (or we will be managed) by robot devices from molecular level up to macro level. Most of our internal organs will have been replaced over time with manufactured devices constructed by nanobots inside our bodies using the existing organs as blueprints. The new organs will be constructed of more durable materials and operate at greater efficiencies. However, it will be interesting to see how we deal with the exponential rate of change in technology after another 100 years. If we slept the next 100 years we might be overwhelmed with what can be accomplished in a single day of research when we awake.

Finally, the biggest question is whether the rapid advance in technology has helped us cope with each other or not. The world has become one, small community in many ways and will only shrink further. It seems this is actually increasing tensions rather than decreasing them. If we cannot embrace the "other" as our brother, even while maintaining our differences, even when the "other" is shoved shoulder to shoulder with us, we may not survive long enough to see what creativity and innovation can achieve. Our fear of the infidel and our need to validate our own view by converting others are our biggest challenges to survival.
posted by Unknown at 9:39 AM