What will the future look like? 5 possible scenarios and their consequences

Humanity is heading towards an uncertain, technological and unequal future.

Where are we heading? What does the future, which seems to be getting closer every year, look like? Thanks to the new technological revolution currently underway, society could undergo significant and exponential change. From the way we transport ourselves, to the culinary habits we have.

Humanity has historically been characterized by the impetus to look beyond, to imagine, dream and create an often fictitious world to even give meaning to life. We also take it for granted that, no matter how much forecasting and analysis we do, the future can only be measured by trends, experts warn.

More-than-likely scenarios of the future

As mentioned in the introduction, in the following lines we will present a series of scenarios based especially on current trends, which can give a better picture of what lies ahead.

1. Healthcare

Already today, multinational companies are increasingly striving to offer a behavioral model that helps to improve our state of health since, as psychologists warn, it helps both our physical and mental well-being. Nutrition, sport and technology come together to contribute to this..

Intelligent sports clothing that adapts to changing environmental conditions. If we are running in the mountains wearing short-sleeved clothing and it starts to rain, the textile fabrics will adapt to our body to avoid getting wet.

Microchips inserted in our body that will help us to regulate various aspects of the human body, such as: heart rate, sleep conciliation, toxic versus healthy calories, physical effort required, amount of alcohol ingested. Companies such as Apple and Samsung are already working to offer products that meet these needs.

2. Intelligent decoration

The future does not spare even the most traditional of traditions, the decoration of real estate.How do we intend to decorate our homes in the future? Although the current fashion has opted for the vintage style in furniture, the future prepares us endless options and ways to design our living room without lifting a finger.

Virtual reality will be in charge of responding to this need, since instruments derived from this technology will recreate scenarios as vivid as reality: Christmas ambience, retro living room, ornamentation by means of projectors, etc. All this will benefit an easy change of home image, at the same time that we will save on environmental materials.

3. Security

Crime is a major concern in the western world. In countries such as Brazil, the United States or India, the crime and theft rates are extremely high. Home invasions and motor vehicle theft are the main victims.

Fortunately (or unfortunately), companies such as Siemens, IBM or Tesla are developing intelligent microchips that are synchronized with our body.. By means of the heart rate, Blood group or the sugar level of our body, these intelligent keys will be able to detect if we are the owners of the goods to which they are intended to be used.

4. Globalized society

What will the future look like at the level of societies? The decade of the 1980s and 1990s, coinciding with the end of the Cold War, saw an agreement between the dominant powers to integrate a global economic-financial system that has directly affected our society. that has directly affected our culture, society and values.

That is, countries around the world, thanks to the free movement of products (open economy) and people (Schengen agreements, among others) has led to greater knowledge among the different cultures of the world, but at the same time has meant that we share clothing, culinary and leisure habits.

We all wear the same pants, have the same haircuts, watch the same movies, listen to the same music, play the same sports and drive the same cars.

5. Robotic socialization

Ehe future is marked by the increasing presence of cyborg products that will accompany us in our daily lives.. From intelligent robots that will help us with household chores, to robots that will keep us company if we are alone. Loneliness is an obvious problem and this fact could be the solution.

Another challenge of the future is the family model. Men and women have less and less time to devote to childcare, they work many miles apart or travel for business very often. Well, humanoids can replace this absence by taking care of children, pets or the elderly, if necessary.

We must not forget that, although beneficial on the one hand, the presence of these robotic elements may pose a problem at the labor level, for example. The replacement of human labor by mechanical labor will mean that 25% of the working population will not be inserted in the labor market, according to Google.