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The Future of Work future problems. Being forewarned, patients will be able to take action early, changing
lifestyle habits or taking designer drugs tailored to their individual DNA. Technology will
Instead of working with machines, automation is be key. ‘Telehealth platforms will make in-home patient monitoring the norm for those who
likely to make some jobs redundant. Like, taxi drivers need it,’ says expert researchers in health services. Doctors will be able to consult over the
replaced by self-driving Uber cars; receptionists internet. The perfect solution for people living in remote towns across the globe.
replaced by robots; doctors outclassed by algorithms
that can plug into vast medical databases; and travel Genome mapping will lead to personalised medicines and whole-body scanners will ascertain
agents wiped out by trip-planning, flight-booking actual issues within the body and 3D-printed replacement organs in future. Meanwhile,
web services. unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology will be used in driverless ambulance drones.
The New Zealand-based Martin Jetpack company has already developed such a concept
Even writers and journalists are threatened by which will soon come into existence. Of course, greater awareness of what we need to do to
companies such as Narrative Science, which stay healthy will be equally important, as will avoiding passing health fads such as juicing,
currently uses Artificial Intelligence to automate weight loss supplements and weird detoxification rituals like eating clay. In future, death
the creation of sports reports and financial updates. will be a rare phenomenon as science may find solutions to stop the ageing and prevent
Obviously, there will also be new jobs created. diseases using newer technologies.
The computer engineer/mechanic who fixes the
self-driving Uber taxis; programmers; genome The Future of Technology
mappers and bioengineers; space tour guides;
and vertical farmers. Technology will continue to The film Elysium (2013), where the super-rich, led by Jodie Foster, had abandoned earth to
disrupt businesses and eliminate jobs, creating new live on a luxury space station, this could be a reality very soon. Technology will underpin
professions we can’t yet envisage. everything like food, health, relationships and work. We’re heading into a future where
improved battery technology will enable better electric cars, personal flying machines,
Those of us who work probably won’t do so in a Hyperloop transportation systems, private space tourism and drone delivery services.
traditional office either. We’re already seeing a
shift in the definition of work: it’s now a task you We will wear Band Aid-style fitness sensors on our skin, charge our devices using wireless
perform, not a place you go to. Productivity is no power, let algorithms optimise and guard our homes, and have virtual assistants to help us
longer measured by sitting at a desk. There’s no manage the flood of data and make sense of it. Some of this might happen. Or none of it.
nine to five. No job for life and no pension for jobs Three things, however, are certain: technology will get smaller, smarter and cheaper. In fact,
in future. it will get so small, smart and cheap that we’ll be able to put computers and sensors into
almost anything fridges will tell us when we’ve run out of milk, bins will tell the council when
In MYOB’s report The Future of Business – Australia 2040, chief technology officer Simon they’re full, 4K televisions will notice when we’ve stopped watching and turn themselves
Raik-Allen suggests we will see a return to more vibrant local communities as people work off to save power. We’re on the road to the Internet of Things (IOT) where everything is
within walking distance of their homes. ‘Rather than the office, or even the remote workspace, connected, not only to the internet but also to another human mind through brain wave
localised centres will emerge as the home of business – giant warehouses, which are used by messages. Future passwords for multi-functions will be of brainwave signals or similar
employees from many different companies, spread around the globe… Within each will be systems.
rooms filled with giant wall-sized screens allowing us to work in a fully virtual, telepresence
model. Banks of 3D printers would be continually churning out products ordered by the At the heart of discipline of Artificial Intelligence is the idea that, one day we will be able to
local community. These are kind of fascinating predictions. build a machine that is as smart as human beings and with more efficiency. This
ambitious system has earned a new futuristic name, ÄGI which means, Artificial
General Intelligence.! This distinguishes the concept broadly which will have
The Future of Health and Medical Sciences automatic brain power. Researchers believe that, within next fifty years this
concept will be real. Once this is achieved, there will be major revolution in all
Any episode of Star Trek where Bones whips out a tricorder, diagnoses the illness and the fields. This will used from war to peace and from earth to heaven. Robots
then cures it with a hypo-spray. Instead, Hospitals are the costliest single element in many with AGI are expected to travel beyond the Solar spectrum and explore
nations health system today, representing up to 40 to 50 per cent of our annual health deeper into the Universe to find useful information for the human race.
expenditure. No wonder future healthcare strategies will try to keep people out of them.
Imaginations and productive efforts are the idiosyncratic of human
Prevention will become the focus as we gain beings that separate them from other living beings. The upcoming
greater control of our health information, generations with more perfect and corrected DNAs are expected to
using self-monitoring biosensors and smart perform miraculous inventions in the future. One only can expect and
watches to continuously gather fitness data; pray that it should be more productive rather than destructive for the
web apps will crunch the data, syncing fellow living beings and environment on our good old mother earth.
to electronic health records. Using these
numbers, companies will be able to build a
model of your overall health that can predict

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