Sky-cars!
Holographic videoconferencing!
Whose future is that?
Indeed a minority of the filthy rich individuals or perhaps countries.
However, let me assure you, that for some others there shall be a classic mud-bare-footing for transportation, and fly on eye non-visual dream conferencing in some of the poorest countries.
My prediction is that a technological gap shall widen even more between the advanced countries and the crippled other ones, this should lead to turmoil and new political problems.
Energy exploitation in rich countries and the contrasting primitiveness in others shall raise many philosophical and ethical questions.
How can the happiness of one nation be complete when the misery of its neighbour increases by simple comparison?
At one point in that future the UN must trigger a global program for Food-Shelter-Education for all human beings.
Education is the key to equilibrium among nations and it is the quality of the human being that determines that future.
The predicted technological gap is something already existent. It is to no one’s wonder that people in the third world countries still don’t have phone lines, gas or electricity. These people, be they in Africa or less developed parts in Asian countries, suffer from the continual neglect of the developed world. Having seen the poverty and illiteracy in such regions, I can assure the writer that, not only will there be a stark technology gap between nations in the years to come but also there will be many health hazards affecting the world because of such negligence. :(
The technological gap between the developed and the underdeveloped world was highlighted by last week’s tsunami. The earthquake prediction facilities available to the West are not things the underdeveloped nations can have the luxury of spending on. Though it doesn’t seem like a luxury now, but a few weeks back none of the concerned governments would have thought of spending on such technology.
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