50 years
1. Most material needs will be provided by subterranean autonomous machines/factories - procuring raw materials, refining, fabricating, distributing, while producing the energy needed to do so, self- repairing, and self-designing without human intervention. Full automation should be free - if its not free society will collapse - getting there will be the issue - for it will disrupt the worlds economies, and the fabric of society unless we plan for it now
b. we must evolve past money
2. Medicines next greatest leaps - Cellular repair/genetic manipulation = curing most diseases, repairing injury, and slowing/stopping the aging process Lifespan determined by devastating traumatic events - murder/accident ~1000-2000 years? more?
3. Unlimited clean energy - power of the sun from space, fusion, quantum manipulation - energy from empty space?
4. Colonizing other planets - and if it is possible - other star systems - if wormholes or equivalent exist - sending craft to other stars at sub-light velocity = unlikely unless we have no choice
5. Autonomous transportation, robots, mechanical lovers - what on earth will keep societies together? No money, no religion, no nations, no materialism, even sexual desire sated without human partners = Common pursuit of knowledge/artistic endeavor?
6. Transmutation - a rose from dirt, a tomato from raw materials - we will master all living organisms biologic processes and learn to manipulate matter in ways the alchemist of yore could only dream of - star-trek's replicator
100 years
1. Super intelligence - be it 'machine' or human modification - again getting there is the issue - imagine Putin gets it first
2. Human evolution - our next giant steps
b. multi-dimensional existence? Extra-dimensional existence?
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