Friday 10 August 2007

Imagine Year 2020

Preapare for Future

"Thirty years from now the big university campuses will be relics. Universities won't survive. It's as large a change as when we first got the printed book."
—Peter Drucker

  1. Artificial intelligence (AI) teachers get better results than most human teachers
  2. AI entity earns college degree
  3. Computers that write most of their own software
  4. Human knowledge exceeded by machine knowledge
  5. Academic learning is argued to be unnecessary in the age of smart machines
  6. Retirement age raised to 75
  7. Major pensions crisis
  8. More people using telework centres than home working
  9. Autonomous production plants make everything, Asia unemployment increases
  10. Retirement age linked to medical history
  11. Desktop computer as fast as human brain
  12. Bacterial supercomputer
  13. Reverse auctions in personal shopping devices (nearby stores bid to provide items on shopping list)
  14. Fully auto-piloted cars
  15. Hackers wipe out networks, causing chaos and mass starvation
  16. Computers and robots become superior to humans

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