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Life in 2050
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978-3-407-75357-1

Life in 2050 is a 2011

futurology book by Ulrich Eberl. The book deals with the effects that climate change, peak oil and the 2000s energy crisis has on the year of the mid-21st century.[2]

This book is intended primarily for students, young professionals, university professors and politicians.[2]

Summary

According to Eberl, computers would act as medical assistants.

virtual universities may exist online for everyone to access due to their relative lack of entry requirements;[2][3] relegating the brick-and-mortar university as an "elitist status symbol." Trends in business, science and politics may lead the way for breathtaking innovations to take place.[2]

China will become the biggest economy; picking up slack from the sagging American economy.[4][5] Economy prosperity will continue in Brazil, Russia, India, and China and the N-11 countries.[4][5]

Buildings may become

senior citizens than young people (between the ages of 12 and 17) and children (people under the age of 12).[2][6] Wind power, in addition to solar power, hydrogen and biomass may eventually replace petroleum-based products as a universal energy carrier.[4]

Remote work may become possible from "smart apartments" that can recognize a person's face and even tell what the weather is going to be like outside.[7] Traffic lights and stop signs may disappear by 2050 because automobiles will gain the ability to communicate with each other.[8] According to Patrick Tucker of the World Future Society, individual automobile ownership is becoming a hassle and vehicle cooperatives may solve the issues involved in owning a single vehicle.[8] Interconnectedness may advance to the point where people may even not have to carry a phone. The communication system would be present on just a glass sheet or something more advanced than that also. This may result in no further need for communication towers.

References

  1. ^ Life in 2050 at Engineering News
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i Life in 2050: How we Invent the Future Today at Siemens
  3. ^ "Distance Learning Courses and Adult Education - The Open University". Open.ac.uk. Retrieved 2010-06-24.
  4. ^ a b c A Look at Sustainability Megatrends on the Road to 2050 at Greenbiz
  5. ^ a b BRIC thesis Goldman Sachs Investment Bank, "BRIC". pg. 9
  6. ^ World's 65 and older to triple by 2050 at NBC News
  7. ^ "What Will New York Look Like In 2050?". Fast Company. January 22, 2014.
  8. ^ a b NAUGHTON, MICHAEL (November 14, 2011). "Boston 2050: What the future will bring". Metro.us.
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