Curious how our world will look like in 2058, 50 years from now? You can find out what others think about it in "The Way We Will Be 50 Years From Today", a collection of essays from 60 great thinkers from around the world.

They seem to agree on the fact that the next half a century will see a great number of technological and medical improvements, giving people the chance to live to be over 100 years old more easily.

Some of the predictions in the book:

• getting your genetic code analyzed and finding out to what diseases you’re more inclined to have will be something common
• cyber implants will start to be used more often, and we’ll probably see bionic vision on that list
• big brother will be much more present in our lives and passports/id’s will be connected in a system similar to credit cards today, making it easier to track someone.
• water will become a resource as important as petrol in the next 50 years

A much longer look at this collection of essays can be found on Cosmic Log.

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