Seven sci-Fi technologies creating our future

The Last few decades we have seen how one technology replace the other, trying to break into the consumer market. Buying a new smartphone or a flying drone, very easy to see how quickly these changes occur. Take the TV is one of the most common examples of consumer electronics that became popular about 70 years ago. Many of those who survived, most likely, still keep the memories of "delevitras" era. Similarly, some technologies that seem fantastic today, our children (and if not children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren) will undoubtedly be perceived as normal and perhaps even outdated.

It is Pointless to argue with the fact that the world will continue to change, and with it will change and technology. But what changes we expect – is a matter rather of personal assumptions. Only one thing is clear: new technology can become a mass market only if they are able to attract the same level of interest, which at the time drew the same TV. It is only then that they can truly influence our lives. Many of those examples, which we will talk today, a few decades ago was considered solely in the realities of science fiction, but it is possible that in the near future they can become an integral part of our everyday life.

We Offer you to disassemble several technologies with the potential to radically change our lives in both good and bad side. This article will present only those examples of technologies that are really actively promoted in the mass and strive to become the mundane things of our future.

Driverless cars

Automated transport driven by computers instead of man already exists. But if this technology will become really popular, that is, self-driving cars will replace most of the standard models driven people, they really can change the lives of their owners. Examples of these changes represent a snap. Self-driving cars will be able to significantly reduce the number of road accidents. Largely due to the exclusion from the equation human error. When you consider that in an accident each year in the world killed about 1.3 million people, the effect is very noticeable.

Growth in the number of self-driving cars on the road will cause less noticeable changes. Owning a personal vehicle can become a thing of the past for most people and is superseded by the ability to call any number of self-driving vehicles at any given time. Most likely, it will differ little from the use of such services as Uber and Lyft, but in theory can be even cheaper and more efficient. If an individual owning a car a thing of the past, you will change the infrastructure of cities. The reduction in Parking spaces and private garages for vehicles can significantly relieve the space in urban centres, where usually the opposite is true.

May change the design of cars. No need for the driver-the person will develop the vehicle more compact and therefore more economical, to make them faster and more maneuverable. Experts believe that computer navigation system has the potential to provide more safety on the road, compared to the men.

If you end up on the road will be only self-driving cars, the creation of a common computerized navigation network will allow in the future to move these cars on the higher, compared to the current vehicles speeds. This will solve the problem of traffic jams, and the presence of a variety of incentive programs to simplify the mobility between different regional areas. In turn, this will simplify the choice in favor of the housing outside the cities, where, as a rule, it is cheaper, but will not sacrifice comfort.

However, the growth in the number of self-driving cars carries risk. Full adaptation of this technology is likely to deprive the whole economy jobs. Take, for truckers, and indeed all drivers of goods and passenger vehicles. We will increase unemployment and reduce wages, at least in the short term, until people find a new job. Self-driving cars will be an interesting and vulnerable target for hackers. It's one thing to disable a particular vehicle, the other – to organize sabotage in the whole network of vehicles. Such attacks can not only lead to human casualties, but can turn a seemingly ordinary car into a real weapon.

Augmented reality

As self-driving cars, augmented reality is already here. You might still remember the explosion of popularity of mobile games Pokémon Go, where the aim was to capture digital monsters "settled in" the real world. Less popular device Google Glass was also an early attempt to bring augmented reality. Background of this technology involve the overlay of digital functions (image and sound) on the real world so to improve your perception.

Very easy to imagine the direction in which augmented reality can continue to develop if really shoot. And to some extent this is already happening. We all use smartphones to obtain additional information about those things, objects and places with whom we plan to interact. Now imagine that the entire volume of useful information about these things will not be displayed on the screen of your smartphone, and, say, on the screen of your glasses that you wear every day. Or, if we take into account a more futuristic option on your digital retina. For example, you want to buy a used car, and instead look for all the information on the Internet, it will be given you before your eyes. Saw a beautiful picture, but I don't know the artist? No problem, the system will automatically sign the author's masterpiece. You do not even need to go into his pocket for a smartphone. Like a girl or guy at the party, but you don't remember their names? If they have accounts in social networks – the system will quickly find them for you and give all the necessary information.

And this is only a small part of what will be able this technology. Imagine playing a Board game that is seen only by you and the other players, or sporting event using a virtual obstacle overlaid on the real Playground.

However, as smartphones, the device augmented reality can impose on users of the social costs. If before your eyes will always be information you can experience a real information overload. This technology will be another constantly distracting stimulus. The same stimulus now are smartphones. Imagine having someone to talk to, but before his eyes continually updated with information that the person is diverted, and actually skips a deaf ear to what you say to him. The level of dependence on this technology will be even higher than it is now from smartphones, to which we all used to stare for no reason. Of course, it will be a big social problem.

Today, many people just can't live without their smartphones. The situation is further exacerbated when information will be made available to us in real time, even in cases when it is possible and you will not be required. Moreover, the constant unhindered access to information can cause dependence even the most persistent users. And as the augmented reality device can be equipped with function of video recording, literally everything will fall our eyes, and will significantly increase the problem of protection of privacy.

Virtual reality

The Idea of virtual reality (VR) is a direct stamp of science fiction (think "the Matrix"), ironically trying to complicate our perception of the panorama of real life. But, like other devices that we have already discussed above, the device of virtual reality already exist today, albeit in a very primitive forms, in the form of the same Oculus Rift and Vive. Obviously, however, the more successful and convenient embodiment of the technology can make it in a few decades the same everyday, what are those television sets today.

In its most fantastic incarnation (again, remember "the Matrix") virtual reality will become completely indistinguishable from the real one, where the user can experience full range of emotions and actions inherent in the real world. This level of excellence virtual reality is unlikely to be achievable in the near future, however, a growing interest in this technology accumulates the development of technologies of visual, sound and tactile feedback, which is certainly necessary to enhance the effect of human presence within the system. It is quite possible that ever will reach such a level where even your brain will not distinguish between incoming information as artificial.

Today, all the talk around the virtual reality associated with how to improve the experience of perception of different media, take those video games where you physically can play the role of a character, or VR movies, allowing a virtual dive in the environment of the film. However, the full embodiment of the virtual cyberspace can have a more profound impact on people's lives.

For Example, this technology will significantly save the time we spend to get to certain places. Offices and grocery...