Looking at the future of humanity

Chris Hadfield spacewalking during his mission on STS-100 mission 2001. Images credit to NASA

These days I've been exposed to a lot of things let's say, futuristic. I've been looking at Chris Hadfield's Space Oddity music video over and over again. I have just watched the latest J.J. Abrams' movie Star Trek Into Darkness. All of it gives me a distant thoughts and reflection over myself of what am I doing and what am I going to do as a part of living universe in this world. I believe we all have a great destiny in the future waiting upon us. Should you say there are people destined to be unlucky or suffer, I think there's a reason for everything. There are a reason to unreasonable things that occurs in this infinite universe. We just don't have the power to understand all those things that happens, and sometimes we won't need those unnecessary knowledge.


I really am having fun on wondering what are we going to do, how are we going to live, and how things work in the near future. There are massive significant progressions in this couple years as humans keep uniting and evolving to conduct a better living.

Technology

I believe that we will have the technology to live outside our mother earth. Looking at International Space Station, it got me thinking that ISS could actually, be a great great grandfather of U.S.S Enterprise (Intergalactical exploration space ship capable of moving at warp speed referenced from Star Trek movie, which I just watched. It's amazing to see the progress that human has made, and soon we will be exploring Mars and maybe we eventually live there.

Looking at more specific parts of the future. I can see that we are moving towards a future not to distant from a highly tech-assisted lifestyle

Google glass has given us a glimpse of what the future looks like. People are going to eventually got tired to do basic tasks and communications with their hands. Calling people with touching the numbers or even speed dial on touchscreen display will become obsolete. This is where something like Google Glass fills in. People will communicate with their voices, or even their minds.



And Apple's iPad is actually a device which is a technology turnpoint that gives us the idea of what the future of computing looks like.

Corning has given us a good vision of what the future will look like. Except in my opinion we will have more voice interactions with technology. The reason why is explained in the next part.



Our hands should do something better than typing a command on a device. We would have been able to performs daily operations in auto-pilot mode and with a little assistance of our human voice. The technology of voice recognition is there and is developing massively quicker than ever before.


The question is why? Our hands, and maybe our feet, should do something more productive, which is doing more complex things that cannot be done without our hands. The technology does already exists, and in today's world it is called Leap Motion.



Human hands should do tasks that are more important and have more significance. For example, a police should be able to track their fugitive by doing hand gestures, on air, to do certain calculations that is difficult to be spoken by words. We will do our tasks faster and with more reliability, in space. Minority Report style, combined with Star Trek and the future of International Space Station, could be International Space Colony.