I Look Forward To

Ebook Launch: 9 Things to Look Forward to in 2030

Friends,

Today I am pleased to launch my new e-guide 9 Things to Look Forward to in 2030. I am very excited to share this with you - free of charge.

What will your life be like in 2030? Will you fly or drive to work? Will you take holidays in space? How long will you live? How will cities look? Is your girlfriend made in a factory?

The book introduces nine aspects of life in 2030 that we can look forward to, as well as interviews with Aubrey de Grey, George Dvorsky, Michael Anissimov, Phil Bowermaster, Aaron Saenz and David Pearce.

The guide also includes two bonus chapters:  

The Single Most Significant Technological Development in the Next 20 Years

and

8 Ways in Which the Human Condition is Improving.

To get your copy of 9 Things to Look Forward to in 2030, simply fill in your email address here and I'll send it to you.

I hope you enjoy this, and feel free to share it with anyone.

Best wishes,

Christian

 

 

FoodTubes - Really Fast Food Delivered in a Physical Internet of Underground Pipes

Trillions of liters of oil, gas, sewage and water are transported through pipelines to homes and businesses worldwide on a daily basis, and we never even see it. It just magically appears upon request. Now, a UK based group of engineers, project planners and academics has drawn up plans to do the same with food and household goods.

5 Space Bloggers on When Humans Will Settle outside of Earth

One world is not enough and humans won’t confine themselves to earth forever. At some point, we’ll begin to inhabit other parts of the universe. But how far away is that? I asked space bloggers Mike Simonsen, Irene Klotz, Ian O’Neill Chris Dann and Leonard David to answer this question, and here’s what they said.

 1. Ian O’Neill - Publisher of Astroengine.com and also the space producer for Discovery News.

"To be honest, this is a very tricky question. But my opinion is that the outlook isn't good as there is little political incentive to send humans anywhere in the solar system, especially to another world to colonize.

Wireless Electricity – No More Cables, Never Plug in Your Phone or Laptop Again

Remember how you used to have to plug in the internet cord to get online? And then one day, you didn’t need to anymore because your laptop started magically connecting to the internet through the ether. That same thing is about to happen to electricity. 

The Skylifter – Flying hotel, transporter of 150 ton buildings, and aerial mega-yacht

An Australian aeronautics company is developing a 150 meter wide discus-shaped helium balloon with a payload capacity of 150 tons. Among other things, the Skylifter will have the ability to move multistory buildings to remote locations and serve as a new generation of airborne luxury cruise ships.

Flying Delivery Drone Network as a Test-bed for Flying Human Transport Networks.

Let’s face it, we’re not going to just start off with computers flying humans around right away. The first space shuttles were, after all, unmanned for good reasons. We have to learn to crawl before we can learn to walk, lest we trip and smash our head against the pavement. Delivery of lighter objects than humans is a good place to start.

6000 km/h trains - Transportation technologies are ripe for a paradigm shift

...Such as a global network of maglev trains that travel faster than planes in air-less vacuum tubes. We’re talking about a mode of transportation that will take you from LA to New York in 45 minutes, cruising at six times the speed of sound.

Solar Panel Roads - Why You May Soon Drive on Glass Highways

A truly ingenious concept, solar panel roadways promise to completely transform the world's road networks by making streets and highways digital, intelligent, profitable and carbon neutral, using already available technology. 

Fatality-Free Cars. Volvo Says Nobody Will be Killed by Their Vehicles in 2020.

Imagine the competitive advantage the first manufacturer of a zero-fatality car would have. “The only car in which you cannot be killed”. With road-to-car and car-to-car communication, auto companies are moving closer than you may think to this Utopian concept, and Volvo’s Vision 2020 vows that "by 2020, nobody shall be seriously injured or killed in a new Volvo."

Faster Than Sound - Supersonic Aircrafts Coming Back Bigger, Stronger and Faster

Only two commercial aircrafts have ever been faster than the speed of sound: The Concorde and the Tupolev 144. Only one of those, the Concorde, was profitable for some time, but even that proved unrewarding after 25 years of success. And since 2003, no supersonic passenger jets have been in operation. But now, the supersonic aircraft industry is about a to take off again, and this time around it's the Japanese who are going full throttle, taking you from Tokyo to LA in 4 hours. Here come the planes that fly at twice the speed of sound, cover twice the distance of the Concorde and carry three times as many passengers.