Question: What do you think the future will be like?

Yo Yehudi answered on 4 Nov 2017:

In the not-too-far future, I suspect we’ll see a lot more self-driving cars. I’m hopeful that will reduce human error therefore the number of deaths on roads. There’s enough of this technology being tested right now that I’d be surprised if it *didn’t* happen.

Looking in to the future much further than this, it gets harder to decide what is likely to happen. I read a lot of sci-fi, so I could share some of my favourite parts of sci-fi societies and technologies, but it’s really hard to know what will be achievable and what won’t. I’d like to imagine that humanity spreads out amongst the stars and reaches outside the solar system to live on other planets or space stations. This would be providing we can find a way to keep people in space healthy, given that astronauts lose bone mass without gravity, giving them weaker bones that are more likely to break (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/benefits/bone_loss.html ). The Earth’s atmosphere and magnetic field also helps protect against certain types of radiation (see https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/284273main_Radiation_HS_Mod1.pdf ), so as exciting as I think living in space might be, it has a lot of challenges we need to overcome first.