What the Future Holds...

[BuriedSky 1,319]

Hi! Welcome to the first mini encyclopedia about Future

-by @BuriedSky and @Darren4Turbo

 

So, here we bring the first article of Buried&Darren Collaboration live:
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The Future Of...

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Prelude: All we would say is that you wouldn’t regret reading this article, as it contains quite good information, and all the information highlighted is based on true facts and figures, and are true to the best of our knowledge.
This article contains different heads and sub-heads, so you can choose your favorite topic and jump to it, if you want to  ^_^

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Impossibility?  :huh:
Never say phrases like "this is impossible" — because everything is possible. If not, than most of the stuff that are now impossible will be possible in the future. Remember, Impossible = I+m+possible. Forget wearable tech. The pioneers of our “post-human” future are implanting technology in to their bodies and brains. Should we stop them or join them?

1) The Future of Internet:

1.1) Li-Fi, 100X times faster than Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi was an accidental invention, during a failed experiment to detect many black holes. Since then, it has revolutionized digital communication, with Wi-Fi now making up to 60% of global internet traffic. With this being said, Wi-Fi still has some issues of varying signal and ability to get easily picked up by someone else. The reason being- Wi-Fi uses radio waves to transmit data.
Prof. Harald Haas came up with the Li-Fi concept.
He came up with a technology that can transmit thousands of data frames with only a single data stream, and even higher speeds. This is kind of similar to the thing used in your television remote controllers. There’s an amazing demonstration of the technology by him, do watch it.
Li-Fi is the use of the visible light spectrum instead of radio frequencies to enable high-speed wireless data communication and internet access. Li-Fi provides general high-speed wireless access that offers substantially greater security, safety and data densities than Wi-Fi along with inherent properties that eliminate unwanted external network intrusion. In addition, the integration of illumination and data services generates a measurable reduction in both infrastructure complexity and energy consumption.

You might question that this sounds great, but if it’s possible in real life. The answer is, “Yes!” Researchers have recorded a speed of 10 GB/sec under lab conditions. In commercial context, there had been trials in Estonia, which reported transmissions speeds of 1 GB/sec. Moreover, researchers at Oxford University published of internet at 224 GB/sec.
The main reason that this gonna be a success is - it just needs light, and its found everywhere.
Isn’t all that just amazing?

 

2) The Future of Life and Evolution:

Evolution provides evidence that humans will one day create machines more intelligent than they are. Human-level intelligence will be available from computing devices within a couple of decades, revolutionizing most aspects of life. Did you know? A human brain can store equivalent to 2.5 million GBs worth of data! (Count how much it is... :P)
2.1) Better Medicine and increase in Life Expectancy:

The idea of living forever sounds like a fairy tale. Particularly, in 17^th century, the average life expectancy was about 35 years, which increased to about 40 years in 19^th century, then 50 in 20^th…Some countries like Japan reported an average life expectancy of life expectancy as high as 80 years!!
The following image shows the current average life expectancies of different regions

Nanotechnology will save human's lives and might connect to their bodies to make them live longer. Think about it, if we would reach very high technology, we would live for hundreds of years, perhaps even thousands. Who knows?
"Humans will essentially live forever as humanity and its machinery become one and the same." ~Ray Kurzweil

So how all this will happen?
Here are a some brief descriptions:
a) Ultrasound Surgery - healing without cuts:
At TEDMED, Yoav Medan shares a technique that uses MRI to find trouble spots and focused ultrasound to treat such issues as brain lesions, uterine fibroids and several kinds of cancerous growths.

b ) Heal with a cell, and not pill:
Current medical treatment boils down to six words: Have disease, take pill, kill something. But physician Siddhartha Mukherjee points to a future of medicine that will transform the way we heal.

c) Printing a kidney:
Surgeon Anthony Atala demonstrates an early-stage experiment that could someday solve the organ-donor problem: a 3D printer that uses living cells to output a transplantable kidney. Using similar technology, Dr. Atala's young patient Luke Massella received an engineered bladder 10 years ago!

2.2) New methods of Birth:

Think about birth in the near future. In which the men's and women's cells will be sent to machines and the baby will be born inside that machine without woman's need to go to the hospital and tiredness. This will make birth easier. This is kind of an ‘improved technology of test tube babies’
We don’t have much proofs and evidences for this, tho. Just a concept, so we won’t talk about this much. :)

3) The Future of Wars:

When the Cold War ended, the world changed fundamentally. For most of the 20th century, conflicts between great powers—two world wars and the spectre of a third—defined our global politics, as well as science and technology. Almost overnight, that dynamic shifted. Warfare didn’t go away in the 21st century, but it became mostly a story of insurgencies and terrorism. In a world with only one superpower, the probability of a high-stakes battle between leading nations became remote. Some even viewed it as impossible.

“The ability to move is directly related to the ability to survive,” says Lee Mastroianni, program manager at the Office of Naval Research.

A History Of Heavy Loads

1809
British rifleman Benjamin Harris complained of the Napoleonic Wars: “Many a man died, who would have borne up well to the end of the retreat, but for the infernal load we carried.”

1863
The quartermaster of the Union Army during the U.S. Civil War observed that many soldiers simply shed their loads, saying, “On the late campaign, the Army abandoned in battle about 25 percent [of knapsacks].”

1944
“We all knew we were carrying too much weight,” said Private First Class Hugo de Santis of landing on Omaha Beach on D-Day. “The equipment had some of us whipped before we started.”

1960s
It’s no accident that U.S. soldiers took on the nickname “grunts” during the Vietnam War: The average total weight of rucksacks in an infantry battalion in Vietnam approached 100 pounds.

2000s
"The load has really changed over the last 15 years," says Frank Furman, logistics program manager for the Office of Naval Research. "But all of sudden we were in Iraq, and we found a lot of [lighter] protective gear was inadequate for that." He says incoming Marines now train with flak packs and Kevlar to prepare for their heavy combat burdens.

2014
"The bulk of the weight carried now," Peter Singer, defense expert at New America Foundation, says, "is a combination of protective vest, flak vest, helmet, and, mostly, the electronics gear—in particular batteries. The electronics gear is different from the past."

2.1) Robotic Mule

This mechanical beast of burden combines the endurance of baggage mules with the speed and obedience of war dogs. Developed by the robotics company Boston Dynamics, which Google acquired last year, the Legged Squad Support System (LS3) can carry more than 400 pounds, obey voice commands, and provide 500 watts of continuous power to recharge mobile devices.

“We need a platform that has the ability to go where dismounted squads can go,” said DARPA’s Hitt. “So we built a system that has the smarts of a trained animal.” The next-generation prototype will replace the LS3’s gasoline and diesel engines with a hybrid-electric motor that’s extremely quiet while moving.

So how all of it gonna work?

• The LS3 has stereo, colour, and infrared cameras which allow it to detect obstacles, create 3-D maps of terrain, and follow patrols.
• Each of the four articulated legs uses hydraulic actuators to power the joints. A control system enables the robot to maintain balance and ground contact.
• Voice recognition allows troops to directly operate the robot. The mule's gait ranges from a one-mile-per-hour walk to a seven-mile-per-hour run.

Some demonstrative images:

 

2.2) Soldier Enhancements:

Equipment upgrades gonna bring a significant change in the war style.

a) Intelligence:

The new developed reality combat goggles will record everything that a soldier sees and hears. The reported data will include real time translations of sentences, navigation instructions, and intelligence level on enemy camps.

b ) Protection:

The next-gen body armours will use layered scales. The scientists are designing a material that would fuse hard plates to a soft, pliable substance.

c) Exoskeletons:

No, wait…They are not what you’re thinking…not those exoskeletons that are shown in Marvel movies.

Scientists are developing an exoskeleton that’s light and agile enough to fit underneath a soldier’s clothing. Using springs and actuators at joints, the suit, which is now in tests, could help soldiers carry extra weight and boost their endurance. Carrying weight is a real problem during wars, isn’t it?

 

2.3) Invisibility Suits:

There has been a concept that declared of a possibility of developing an invisibility coat for soldiers.
The only thing in this is that the person would not be visible to naked human eyes. Everything else can detect its presence. For example: cameras, dogs, detectors, etc.
Again, we don’t have much information about this, so would prefer not shooting in void…

…and some philosophies being discussed around, that we found was worth mentioning:

There are a lot of possibilities that the World War III will bring a great downfall to the humanity on Earth. The current development and use of nuclear weapons and their subsequent acquisition and deployment by many countries, it is feared that a Third World War could cause the end of human civilization and most of on Earth. A common hypothesis is that a small number of people could, possibly go in deep underground blast shelters or away from Earth, such as on the Moon or Mars.

Some say that the 4th World war will be on sticks, spears and humans will be primitive because of the loss of the technology due to world war III.

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein.

 

 
 
 
4) The Future of Transport:

Regarding transport, there is not much information about the distant future. Moreover, those pieces of information have lots of predictions. So for this section, we limit the word "future" to next 2-5 years, so we can provide true information.  :)
 
4.1) Hyperloop – 1000km/hr Ground Travel!

 
 
Recently at the “All Things D” conference, Elon Musk proposed his revolutionary form of transportation. You can think it as the Tanki Railgun. Just the way the heat up is done and then the shot is fired, at an extremely fast speed. It’s ‘one part Concorde(an aircraft), one part railgun, and one part air hockey table’
 
 
Hyperloop is going to be the fifth form of transport. In this transport system, passengers sit in a pressurised capsule that rides in a cushion of air. That capsule operates in a sealed, near vacuum environment.
 
 
The following pictures best explains this concept:

 
 

Hyperloop will be a super-fast, super-efficient form of transportation that would be capable of whisking passengers from downtown Los Angeles to downtown San Francisco in less than 30 minutes.
 
 
So how exactly would it work?

 
 

 
 

 
 
 
 
Elon Musk is heavily involved with building rockets, electric cars, and batteries to power homes. So, he has given away this idea and outsourced it in the form of a competition. Several companies have formed to take on the project, and even some all-star interdisciplinary teams are working together on it.  
 
 
Advantages of Hyperloop:

• Theoretically, the pods can’t crash, and are much cheaper to build. It’s about one-tenth the cost of California high speed railway system. This means that tickets could cost as low as $25.
• Its a lot faster. As mentioned earlier, downtown LA to downtown San Francisco in 30 mins...That’s quite fast.
• Its extremely energy efficient due to solar power utilisation. In fact, the Hyperloop could generate more power than it could consume (by using solar panels this way).
• Other advantages – safer, convenient, immune to weather, resistant to earthquakes,

Possible disadvantages:

• Critics say the experience could be frightening as passengers are enclosed in a sealed capsule. Some say there may be ‘motion sicknesses’ due to fast acceleration.
• There is currently no answer to the questions regarding how to deal with malfunctions, accidents, and emergency evacuation.
• Finally, the cost may be higher than anticipated.

Elon says that he does realise these challenges, but he has faith in skills and innovation of those working on the project.

 
4.2) Cars:

Car companies have recently been telling what the car of future will be like: autonomous is one word used, electric is another, and it will be connected to the internet too. Sound exciting?
Hands-free driving
Companies are working on concepts allowing cars to cruise along on the highway without driver intervention, many of which are likely to be seen on our roads.
There is the Super Cruise from General Motors, which controls the vehicle on long highway stretches when not much is happening. Then there is the Traffic Jam Assistant from BMW; cars move along in a congested traffic area just like a school of fish. Or there’s Road Train from the European Satre project which includes Volvo, where one vehicle with a professional driver leads a platoon of other vehicles, connected virtually and following like pearls on a string along the highway – turning the commute into possibly more productive time as the drivers can now work or rest. And when the car makes it to its destination, it can park itself in a high-tech parking structure
 
Some expected technologies in cars are:

1) Ultra capacitors

Current battery cars drain a lot of battery, when you drive slowly. When batteries are paired with ultra capacitors, they store energy chemically. Ultra-capacitors hold a charge in an electromagnetic field between two electrodes coated in porous activated carbon. This allows them to absorb electricity as quickly as an outlet can dispense it and discharge it just as fast. In a car, that translates into fast recharging and powerful acceleration.

 

2) Car-to-car communication:

Today's high-end cars can correct your steering when you veer out of a lane, brake automatically to keep you from hitting other vehicles, and determine when you're about to fall asleep. Cadillac is even expected to unveil hands-free cruise control in the next two years. For networks of autonomous or semiautonomous cars to work, however, vehicles must be able to communicate with and react to one another. The technology that will enable them to do so could soon be ready for production.

 

 
 
3) Tiny internal combustion:

Fuel Economy has always been a concern. Carmakers started adding turbochargers and computer-controlled direct injection to ever-smaller engines in order to wring every last mile out of a gallon of gas. The 2012 BMW 328i, for example, runs on a turbocharged four-cylinder engine (the first four-cylinder from BMW since 1999) that is more efficient and produces more torque than the six-cylinder it replaced. Ford is expected to put a turbocharged three-cylinder in the Fiesta in the near future. But turbochargers and direct injection can only do so much: To approach triple-digit mileage, engineers will have to fundamentally rethink internal combustion. Plenty of them have already started.

 
 
4) Cheap Carbon Fibre:

Five times stronger than steel yet two thirds the weight, carbon-fibre-reinforced plastic (CFRP) has for two decades been the chassis material of choice for race cars. But carbon fibre has always been time-consuming and labour-intensive to manufacture, so it hasn't been economical for passenger vehicles. Increasingly efficient manufacturing methods are bringing down the cost.

BMW will begin selling its i3 electric city car, the first mass-produced automobile with a carbon-fibre chassis. The four-seat i3 chassis, which BMW calls the "Life module," weighs just 265 pounds or 50 percent less than a steel structure. (CFRP is also 30 percent lighter than the most advanced extruded aluminium.)

 

 

The following is our favorite article, because THIS is the real cause of excitement about Future among people:
5) Future of Artificial Intelligence:

5.1)Google's DeepMind:

Google's Deep Mind algorithms prove that machines can learn in a manner similar to that of a human, a true breakthrough in the field of artificial intelligence.
For the first time in history we have seen the successful development and demonstration of general purpose Artificial Intelligence (AI). Its name is AlphaGO and was made by Google’s Deep Mind Division…
A computer called AlphaGo beat the master of the ancient Chinese, and World’s hardest game, Go. This is a historic moment in Computer Science and AI. This was the first demonstration that machines can truly learn and think in a human way. AlphaGo’s victory shocked experts in the AI community.
 
 
Why is this important and what’s all the fuss?

AlphaGo shows that machines can really learn. How so? Well, instead of using brute force to calculate all the moves it could make (like in previous AIs), AlphaGo used reinforcement learning and neural networks to mimic the learning process of a human brain.
 
Keep in mind that ancient Chinese game Go, has many more possible moves than chess, as there are atoms in the entire universe. So there’s no way of just calculating every possible move on the board. That’s practically impossible. For this reason, Go is the holy grail of AI and learning to do such a task from scratch is a huge feet. Further to this, DeepMind’s creators say that the algorithm can learn many more things without alteration or guidance (It can learn from its own experiences). In other words, the AI is general purpose.

 
What exactly is Google’s Deep Mind?

It is a British artificial intelligence company that was found in September of 2010, as “Deep Mind Technologies”, and was renamed when acquired by Google in 2014 for $500 millions. Deep Mind received the Company of the year Award, by the Cambridge Computer Laboratory, in 2014.

 
Where did it come from?

It was first a start-up, co-founded by Demis Hassabis in 2010. Demis was a child genius, and went from being a chess prodigy and reaching master level 813 on to becoming the lead programmer of Lionhead Studios for groundbreaking games such as Black&White.

 
What is the goal of Deep Mind Technologies?

According to their website, their goal is to solve intelligence. They are trying to achieve this by combining the best techniques from machine learning and system’s neuroscience to build a powerful general-purpose learning algorithms.

 
How does AI learn?

The AI from Deep Mind uses a technique called “Deep Reinforcement Learning” which makes it very different from other AIs, such as IBM’s Watson, or the primitive Siri (Apple), or Google Now. Those AIs are only developed for a predefined purpose and only function within their scope. Deep Mind claims that their system is not pre-programmed, and it learns from its own experience using only raw pixels as data input. Technically, the reinforcement that Deep Mind uses is model free, i.e. it doesn’t need a structure or set of rules to learn.

 
What does general purpose mean?

Well, because the machine learns from work experience and data, it can perform well across a wide variety of tasks, straight out of the box.
Watch this video to see how AlphaGo learns from its own experiences.
Note: The system wasn’t told anything about the game. It understood everything on its own.

 
BTW, AlphaGo is just a system, so we don't have much pictures to depict. The only available ones have been linked with the text, so you can check them out.. ;)
Though, we have a few pics (from internet, ofc) of the Google Offices if you wanna see:

 

 
The only "inside office" pic available ATM..(if you find any, please share ^_^ )

 

If you want to know more about Google’s Deep Mind, open the spoiler:

I would suggest you to view this short 8 minute video, Inside DeepMind:

 
A pretty cool talk by Damis Hassabis on General Learning Algorithms, it's 30mins but worth a watch:

https://youtu.be/08Cl7ii6viY

 

 

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So, until next time, Signing off

 

[sirogo 3,624]

Good to see it's pretty complete, good job.

[Rayyan 3,415]

Good Job :D

[Darren4Turbo 4,913]

Hope you like the article, guys. We spent three weeks on it.

[Hex 11,520]

God, please don't take me in the next 50 years ;)

[DragonOfStorms 2,706]

Great article! I enjoyed reading about some of the crazy stuff you humans have invented!

[Darren4Turbo 4,913]

you humans have invented!

Wait, you're not a human? :O

 

Welcome to planet Earth!

[H.4.M.S.T.E.R 47]

Wait, you're not a human? :O

 

Welcome to planet Earth!

TH4NK5

[H.4.M.S.T.E.R 47]

N1C3 4RTICLE GUY5. Y0UR THINKING ARE 0UT 0F THE W0RLD,IT MIGHT BE FROM OUR PLANET

[Blackdrakon30 2,943]

I enjoyed the part on the Deep Mind project very much, nice article!

[BuriedSky 1,319]

Good to see it's pretty complete, good job.

Good Job :D

I enjoyed the part on the Deep Mind project very much, nice article!

Thanks, Guys.. ^_^

 

God, please don't take me in the next 50 years ;)

It might work for you too! Take it from me whenever you need me.. :lol:

 

Great article! I enjoyed reading about some of the crazy stuff you humans have invented!

I knocked their laboratory door...someone popped out and said:

 

 

:P :P

 

N1C3 4RTICLE GUY5. Y0UR THINKING ARE 0UT 0F THE W0RLD,IT MIGHT BE FROM OUR PLANET

 

 

 

But I tried to search for yours, is this it? Please tell, I gonna pirate all the technology from there :P

 

 

 

Edited May 14, 2016 by BuriedSky

[joe2vega 1,259]

[DragonOfStorms 2,706]

Wait, you're not a human? :O

 

Welcome to planet Earth!

I may not be human, but I've lived on Earth all of my life ;)

[BlueDragon_tamki 3,204]

I may not be human, but I've lived on Earth all of my life ;)

Im only humaaaaaaaaaaaaan

[fordmustang12345 3,910]

“real life AI" please god no Idont want to be taken over by robots

[BuriedSky 1,319]

“real life AI" please god no Idont want to be taken over by robots

We're already been taken over by machines...imagine a day without internet/electricity/ gadgets  :ph34r:

 

I was thinking to add about that in the article, but didn't add because of lack of any evidence...

However, cos you asked about it, I'll brief you with what they say (this is a rough quote):

"We were always concerned about machines ruling human. But I tell you that the human would never he ruled by a machine; as he is the creator of machine and HE knows his how IT works, but IT would never...."

I myself found this statement very mysterious, so preferred not to add it in the article...

 

Also, adding to this, even if machines develop to it's best, there would still exist 2 tasks (or say jobs) that could never be taken over by robots, viz those which are concerned with emotions, and those which involve creativity...and that's 100% true and sure...

[need.higher.rank 3,491]

Nice