Technologies that will dominate the world in 2100 (Part 1)

In the next 100 years, what technologies will change the world? How will they make our lives better, cleaner, safer, more productive and more enjoyable?

The machine revolution in 1900 helped power become popular, automating the replacement of many manual and manual jobs more quickly, bringing higher efficiency such as sewing machines replacing sewing needles and pointing , writing replacement typewriters, cars replacing horse-drawn freight cars.

100 years later, in the last year of the previous millennium, 2000, machines extended the boundaries of possible things: the international space station brought people to work in space, DNA sequencing machines. (a DNA-assisted nucleotide sequencing machine) used to synthesize life, computers and the world wide web that changes the way we learn, read and communicate.

Here are some ideas for us to think more about the 2100 machinery technology from Popular Mechanics, the famous science magazine with more than 100 years of American history.

Alternative energy sources

Sketch of the world in 2100. (Photo: Getty).

This year, 2018, our planet's problem is an environmental concern after two centuries of fossil fuel use, worries that we are now getting to know.

However, despite the bad warnings and long-term potential risks, people are always adaptable. The first biggest problem to solve is pollution. If you no longer use fossil fuels, what energy source will the world of 2100 run? Visible options are hydrogen, electricity, wind, and the most promising are solar technology and fusion power.

Fusion energy comes from the fusion of light nuclei such as hydrogen, deutrium, tritium, similar to the energy production mechanism of the sun and stars. Fusion power is the subject of many private projects and is supported by the government because it is a clean, carbon-free energy source and will create a 'perfect battery' in the future effectively. fruit.

In the case where fusion power is still out of reach, we always have the sun, an important part in every modern energy system. In 2100, the sun will play a much more important role.

According to former engineer John Mankins - Head of NASA's Human Development and Space Development division, decades of clean power on our planet will be 'solar-powered satellites with wireless electricity far away, transporting masses of affordable solar energy to global markets'.

Regarding solar storage , according to AECOM's global adaptation manager, Josh Sawislak, by 2100, this will be solved very well by turning everything into a solar collector, from paint. on the wall to the plastic on the street. Later, these energy sources will be stored in a small portable solar power device the size of a current smartphone.

Solar energy will be very popular in the future.(Photo: Getty).

In the future, solar energy will be very useful, and carbon energy will almost disappear.

'2100 carbon energy will be like lighting with gas today. At that time, they probably only appeared in historical places , 'Sawislak said.

Along with solar power, the following technologies also have the ability to protect green planets: floating cities, mobile irrigation culverts, aggregate land, biological buildings, and earth globe technology (which are techniques Large-scale climate change interventions to deal with climate change) .

In 2007, Harvard researchers concluded that Earth technology is still too risky. But what will the climate editing machines look like in the 22nd century? According to Popular Mechanics, it could be a large fleet of self-driving cars covering the upper atmosphere to emit tons of extremely clean, dust-like particles in the sky.

Or it could be ' machines that are capable of effectively removing greenhouse gas emissions not only from individual sources of pollution but also from the atmosphere, on a large scale, sufficient to prevent and reverse global climate change ' , says Professor Lisa Alvarez-Cohen - Department of Environmental Technology at Berkeley University.

The appearance of the army of robo-people in the war

War in the next century will be different from today.

When people are on Earth, war is an integral part of life and will recur for decades. But war in the next century will be different from today.

It is forecasted that in 2100, the number of deaths due to war will decrease as the development of artificial intelligence, automation, and general weapons becomes more and more accurate. Machines that combine AI as in science fiction will prevail on the battlefield of the 22nd century.

The war will soon use 'unprecedented level of human-machine combination . with interfaces that are powerful systems and those who operate them as smoothly as possible' , according to an agency. Advanced research. Along with AI, automation will also replace human life with machines. The unmanned aerial vehicle system with toughness will be able to carry out attacks without risking many people. A future leap is a more versatile and more accurate weapon that does not cause great damage.

Gil Metzger - Applied research director of Lockheed Martin, the world's largest defense equipment manufacturer, said: 'Weapons will be smaller, faster, more versatile and can fulfill the mission with Higher probability of success such as less human damage and related damage '.

However, not all experts think that automating and using AI for war purposes is a good idea. It's dangerous when not only soldiers change but weapons also become difficult to identify.