Future Life on Earth
What will our future look like? Floating cities, flying to work and traveling in cars capable of operating underwater? And how will technology advance to make use of our natural resources to help feed our growing population in such areas as food, water and electricity?
The era of smog-filled skies will be over, because fewer of us will be driving cars. There will no longer be the use for cars and roads as we’ll be piloting environmentally friendly personal vehicles between cities and under the seas. And we will never be lost again thanks to GPS-driven virtual mapping. Then again, with teleportation we will not need to travel at all.
And, best of all, we’ll all have more time to enjoy the astounding advances of our near future, because we’ll all be living longer. A lot longer. Find out what we can expect to see in the future in this well produced documentary.
Forest fires are the main producer of CO2 on the Planet. More heat , more fires, and more CO2. Its a vicious cycle with no future change, we are all doooomed
This felt like an executive sales pitch. Smarmy, soulless and plastic and held no surprises or wows. Plus, I will never contemplate buying a citroen.
yeah right. I am all for technology and have always been fascinated by futurism. However they never mention 1 time the basic laws of thermodynamics. you can neither create nor destroy energy. The idea that every person, in 10 years it is estimated we will have over 9 Billion people on the planet. Clean drinking water, free energy, unlimited food, no reliance on fossil fuels. Forget about it. This is a great story, but a pipe dream. Yes some of it will most likely come to fruition. However they never mention that we live on a finite planet so all the micro-electronics to say create energy from foot traffic have very rare earth minerals that have to be mined. There are only a few places on the planet where many of these rare earth minerals exists, mostly in China. Not to throw a wet blanket on this utopian dream, however I see a much different future where the wealthy will become fewer and the poor will become more abundant. Technology, sure it can certainly help, but the idea that we will simply walk away from fossil fuels is near impossible in an industrialized society. They only focus on fossil fuels for energy consumption. They do not talk about fossil fuels are used to make just about everything in the world, whether it be fertilizer for food, oil and gas to drill and extract all the metals and rare earth materials that make up our industrial society. Sorry I am ranting here. This is truly one of the worst documentaries I have ever seen. Why could it not be more balanced. Oh one last thing, everyone traveling either by their own jet, underwater vehicles, etc. Give me a break. Just look up some of the futuristic commercials or documentaries on YouTube from the 1950's, you will get a laugh. But now it is a serious matter as we are getting close if not past Peak Oil and once we can no longer produce the energy needed to sustain growth, game over.
Terrible doc.
@Annie Don't fear the future and don't given to the "skin bag" complex. The computer your reading this on, is just as natural as the eyes your using to see it. The same universe that spawn the earth and bald talking monkeys (us), produce the silicon in your computer and the neurons in our brains that create the idea we then build. It's all completely natural.
@Greg Bennett and the guest who agreed: Living longer lives will not be as much of a dystopian prospect as you may think. Getting old will be different to how it is now, due to improved health care and living standards. And as far as working longer most studies point to the fact that we will all be working fair less, due to the exponential growth or AI and robotics. Boredom too will be a laughable trait of the past, once we can realize our creative ideas into virtual reality computer systems.
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Omg I wish I was living in the beginning of 20 century! This unnatural doctors-robots, electronic devices everywhere that could spy you, travelling by internet to diferent countries,getting drunk with 3D hologram fake person. That technical progress will lead to entire enslavement of normal human being . It will leave no challenge to us
Omg I wish I was living in the beginning of 20 century .That unnatural doctors-robots and electronic devices everywhere that could spy you ,traveling by internet to different countries, getting drunk with 3D hologram person ,that`s really sucks!! That technical progress will lead to entire enslament of normal human being.
I stopped the documentary at the submersible sports car...
LOL @ chelsea, you're funny. Death is a normal part of a biological structure yes but if everyone held your point of view, no one would reproduce or strive for survival (like any other organism that has been birthed on this earth).
And with the development of technology, one day we may not need a body at all, we could create our very own "matrix". Reality as we know it in the digital realm where our minds reside. That way we can enter and exit reality as we please, leaving you're precious planet earth in balance. But embracing death would definitely prevent that idea from happening.
Go to a children's hospital and go try and spit bullshit like that to a dying kids family. Grow up and wait till you have more then 12 years of life experience before you post again until then smoke another one cheech.
Your right Chelsea King, why don't you embrace death with wonder and curiosity and kill yourself, were pretty crowded here.
everything dies.. are sun, earth, and us will die. we can only prevent death for so long and in doing so can put a strain on are bodies and earth. y do people hav to b afraid of death? or c it as a bad thing? y not embrace it with wonder and curiosity? because its guna happen anyway...its the only thing we will never b able to stop and im glad.
I dont agree with preventing the earths storms. People need to die and since we cant kill eachother then the earth can do it for us. Theres to many people on earth. Cancers, diseases, earths storms, are all a natural proccess for keeping species numbers down and were fighting to prevent all this is not going to solve anything except create more problems and were taking us, plants, animals, and earth down with us.... Humans are a disease and cancer to this earth.
Absolute bullshit!! Foam and concrete based islands that support buildings ....that is probably the world's most unsustainable building method. The embodied carbon of such an endeavour is beyond imaginable.
Just more creepy, top-down, flapdoodle. I don't want to get on an elevator that thinks it knows what floor I want to exit. All this just amounts to control and the narrowing down and homogenizing of our life options.
Instead of creating more for the rich and better living for those who already have enough !! why don't we think bout the majority that need to survive today!!!!!!******** This docu is more like a science fiction movie not considering the actual reality of today!! Conflicting of NWO and Newer NWO lol!... Instead of adapting to the environment/nature like animals that we are, we are constantly adapting the environment/nature to us, and nature is resisting and will continue resist. You think these floating units are stable enough to hold against tsunami's ? this is diffidently not the future of life!!
"I don't know how WW3 will be fought, but I know that WW4 will be? fought with sticks and stones"
Albert Einstein
some of these things sound great but right now we are living on a planet in which 1 in 4 people have no electricity. Almost as many do not have access to modern healthcare or clean drinking water. And fresh water looks like its running out! Watch BLUE GOLD WATER WARS
global warming is a natural process
humans did not cause it we are speeding it up
They did not mention food sources management, forest management, resources management and waste management. And also about over population... this film is a baby plan for everyone by private entities.
We will have pollution crisis, resources crisis and population crisis in the future.
Of course that not everything that has been shown in this video will come to be reality. Of course not. However, watching this video and reading the comments below has given me 'food for thoughs', and that's all that this is. At any rate, it is fun to see what a 'possible' future might be and what current scientists are working on. No doubt that all that I saw in this video will influence the future in some way, be it a very minor one. Everything that we do is a cause for evenets to occur. Everything influences our fufture and the future of others. Cause and effect.
Jetpacks? That could easily kill you with only a milimeter mistake? A personal plane for 'only' 400 grand $$ ? (So, Wallstreet wages?) Floating cities is true, because global warming is happening and can not be stopped. 'Gaia, James Lovelock' ... look it up.
These are all 'boy toys' that are only a distraction as Earth becomes the next Venus (so hot with green house gases that it kills all life). Again look up 'GAIA, James Lovelock'.
Unless we do population control, figure out how to reflect sun light ( due to the lack of north/south polar ice caps melting ) and get off oil and consumerism and greed... all these 'boy toys' are simply so far fetched and missing the point that we are organic creatures and not metallic machines and we are 100% connected to the Earth and it's Biosphere.
People just do not get it! We are well on our way out. Earth (remember your ENVIRONMENT? ) dictates the rules. Ego's and technology == disaster!
James Lovelock predicts that only 1 billion people will be able to survive the next 100 years.
having watched this, i think i will value my 'shortevity' all the more.
this is just someone's imagination on how the future will be, because NO ONE can tell us what the future holds.
Doubling our life span without some form of population control sounds like any number of disasters waiting to happen.
Kool doc ... should be titled ... future toys for the ELITE.
I love the way it constantly refers to 'we' .. I quickly realised that this 'we' is the ULTRA RICH masters of the planet. This is what they will play with when they depopulate the peasantry.