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Ocirne Jun-Jun S. Liwanag MIT March 18, 2011

2057 What will happen in the Future: The Body and The City

In a world where machines interact like people and bodies that can be built from scratch, how will we use them? To fuel our needs for power, commute to space and what other life saving innovation can we do with these technologies.

Michio Kaku, a Physicist from the university of New York states that, 50 years from now we can have intelligent clothing that functions to help our body in such states. Smart shirts a t-shirt that has been research by Sundaresan, Jayaraman enables the shirt to detect what is happen in our body. The with the use of such clothing’s in the future our clothes can alert the authorities, send them information about our current states and conditions, also aside from telling or giving status of our condition with the help of this clothes it can also someday enhance our life a little bit more.

Flying cars may be a dream for today but in the future with new innovation and decades of work it is possible for us to acquire what they call sky cars. Sky cars are basically a combination of cars that we used in our daily transportation and airplanes that we also used for long distance travel. These sky cars are more environmental friendly, portable and compact and faster than our normal cars today, using the sky cars it will lessen the traffics that we can encounter and also help doctors and medical staff to prevent any delays from going to emergency places where accidents and tragedies may occur.

In the future, we can use common things to help improve our body like for example the bubbles. Well not like ordinary bubbles but bubbles that are created using different compounds to help doctors to preview what is inside our body. Also with these bubbles we can deliver drugs to our damage organs or even the tissues to minimize the side effects of over dosage. Aside from bubbles we can use a simple printer today that someday will be able to do prints of a human organ. Printers of today may be used for printings design and documents but 50 years from now we can actually used printers to create a replica of our body parts. And someday we can even have our own body shop to find any parts of our body that we need to replace in order to live longer and healthier.

Computer chips in the future may not be used only for machines and computers but can also be allowed to be place in our bodies to help in our recovery or even in some point replace damage neurons that helps our movements.

In the super digital wire world holographic, personal robots and networks of the cities can change our world. Today holographic images may be just restricted or should I say limited to a computer screen or any canvas to display its output. But in the future these holographic images can actually go outside of what is actually limited today. And with the used of images they can help a person go to places where they want. It can also serve as companions for children’s to guide them and tell them what they need to do.

Robots of today may be limited to the capabilities that we provide them to do but in the near future these robots and actually tells us or even do the task that we usually have to do our selves. Cars of today or the future may differ in terms of its look and functions but they still need to be driven. In the future where cars or other vehicles’ doesn’t need to be driven, just tell them where you want to go and they respond and go without any delays.

And with all this innovation that we may have in the future it is still up to us human beings to actually manage this advancement in our life whether it may be in our body, city or even the world. Because not all the decisions that the machines or computers may do are the correct ones since computers does not have the ability to adapt and react faster than what human beings are capable off. Also we need to remember that a computer or program may make mistake if the person controlling them do so. And lastly with all these technologies that we can encounter there is always a room for further improvements.