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Rate your partner out of 10

"How was your date? Tell us what you think about this person. Do they look like their photos? Are they a good listener?" the Algo Date app wants to know the next morning. "The more details you give, the better we can match you up next time," the system continues relentlessly. In

# AI # human # society # love

Vladislav Biryukov

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2050 Barcelona

News reports about personal data leaks tend to be about credentials for bank accounts and other online services. However, it is biological data that will soon be the most valuable kind. Unlike passwords and bank accounts, biodata cannot be changed, so the effects of any leak will be lifelong. Already,

# biotech # society # love

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The actual launch of objects to orbit will be improved by using electromagnetic railguns to put raw materials into orbit, those materials won’t be affected by the huge accelerations and temperature changes of those kind of launches, and the cost will fall ten fold. Once in space, enormous 3D printers

# space

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2030 Barcelona

By 2030, we will have substantial numbers of self-driving pods, most will have light rail too and a few cities might have Hyperloop-style rail. There will still be many conventional vehicles so it will be a diverse mixture. The skies won’t have flying cars but will have drones varying in size from small

# transport # city

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2040 Barcelona

By 2040, the need to quickly make high volume, low cost accommodation in megacities will favour mega-buildings that will be up to 10km tall, acting as miniature cities in their own right, probably pyramid-style, with residential, business, shopping, social, cultural and recreational areas or layers.

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2040 Barcelona

Communities of robots

Robots will optimize their economic activities through interaction with each other and man. Communities of robots will unite, just as people, in order to achieve some more complex goals, impossible for one subject. For example, robots-construction workers will build a skyscraper together. It will be

# society # robots

Roman Alyoshkin

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2040 Barcelona

Espionage in unmanned vehicles

Unmanned machines are used not only as transportation but also as a platform for negotiations - in order to accelerate the pace of life and not to lose a second. They have enough comfort and safety due to multiple cameras, lidars and radars. An attacker can hack this unmanned machine and gain access

# threats # transport

Andrey Nikishin

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2040 Barcelona

Many cities, or at least their central regions, will contain areas without human drivers. People will be barred from entering these areas inside their own transport. They won’t have road signs, traffic lights, markings, but there will be new devices - beacons in case an emergency shutdown of the central

# transport # city

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2040 Barcelona

World without beards

Interfaces of augmented reality applications will be reshaped in accordance with the preferences and user profiles. If someone, for example, finds bearded men annoying, this information is automatically transferred to the public profile of the person (with his consent, of course). This beard hater will

# human

Timur Biyachuev

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While smart cars are widespread, conventional manned vehicles are almost gone. Unmanned machines interact with each other (V2V), as well as with infrastructure (V2I), in order to build the fastest and most convenient route. Being a part of this infrastructure, Network Cafe "VeryBigBurger" transmits

# transport # threats

Andrey Nikishin

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2050 Barcelona

By 2050 the tallest buildings may be over 50km, again almost exclusively for space travel, and space ports will be more common. Many residents will be androids, but there will also be new biological creatures, genetically designed and lab-assembled, and some might be able to talk and interact well with

# city # society

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The development of nanotechnology has allowed the passengers of a completely opaque car to see everything that is going on outside. The material of the cars’ body panels is made of millions of tiny nano-cameras. They broadcast video which looks incredibly realistic thanks to a very high resolution.

# transport

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No more traffic jams and the stress of the commute! There is no sense in spending all day in the office. What is more, the majority of employees don’t have an office. If the head of department lives in Australia and his colleague is in Guatemala, this does not prevent them from working on a new mutual

# work

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