Humans

[New] NASA is set to send the first woman and next man to the surface on the Moon by 2024 in the Artemis mission, with plans for additional lunar missions once a year thereafter and a human exploration of Mars is targeted for the mid-2030s.
[New] With humanity now consuming as many natural resources as Earth can produce in a year within less than seven months, consumer pressure is likely not to be the only plastics pinch point businesses will feel in the coming years.
Increasing levels of physical and cognitive human augmentation will become prevalent as individuals seek personal enhancements over the next 10 years - creating a new consumerisation effect where employees seek to exploit their personal enhancements to improve their office environment.
Over the next 10 years, increasing levels of physical and cognitive human augmentation will become more prevalent as individuals seek personal enhancements raising the number of biohackers and bodyhackers globally.
Over the next ten years, increasing degrees of physical and cognitive human enhancement will become more commonplace as individuals seek personal improvements.
14 per cent of professions have a high chance of automation in the near future, while a further 32 per cent are at significant risk of change driven by the technological augmentation of human skills.
In a few years, human dietary needs will reach unprecedented proportions in history (nearly nine billion people on Earth in the next 50 years living more and more in cities).
Through 2022, only 20 percent of organizations investing in information governance will succeed in scaling governance for digital business, and by 2022, over half of data and analytics services are going to be performed by machines instead of human beings.
AI augmentation, defined as a human-centered partnership model of people and AI working together to enhance cognitive performance, could generate $2.9 trillion of business value by 2021.
The North American Meat Institute will soon launch its sustainability initiative focused on driving continuous improvement toward environmental, animal welfare, food safety, labor and human rights, and health and wellness goals over the next decade.
65% of Americans expect that within 50 years robots and computers will definitely or probably do much of the work currently done by humans, but 80% of respondents thought their own jobs would be exceptions.
If the UK is to meet its target of net zero emissions by 2050, then human behaviours will have to change at both an individual and organisational level.
The population on Earth grows by over 200,000 people per day or 80 million per year, and the UN estimates that it will peak at 10.9 billion people by the end of the century.
Human being could obtain new way of travel, that be picked up at appointed place by ADV in level 5.
Without a fundamental change in direction, climate change will be irreversible, inflicting disastrous effects on the planet and humanity well before the Convention reaches its 60th anniversary.
The London Metal Exchange (LME) will postpone plans to ban metal tainted by human rights abuses until 2025, giving producers three more years to comply with guidelines and the exchange time to rethink its approach.
The Chinese government's commitment to regulatory reform has improved access to medicines but also opens new opportunities for first-in-human and first-in-class innovative medicines to reach Chinese patients faster.
The global action made during the next 10 years will impact the future of humanity for the next 10000 years.
Data Scientists from Google assume that only in the next year (2020) robots will manage to imitate complicated human behaviour and emotions like flirting or making fun of somebody.
Japanese respondents were more confident in AVs than the global average; 83% believe self-driving cars will be better drivers than humans by 2029, and 38% believe they already are.
With tremendous growth expected in the industry - the global medical robotics market is expected to reach $20 billion by 2023 - there' s no doubt that robots used in healthcare will continue to conduct more varied tasks.
By 2050, people over age 65 will number over 1.6 billion, accounting for 20 percent of the global population - more than double the number today.
By 2025, 40 per cent of enterprises will shift from designing for humans to architecting humans themselves by adopting human augmentation technologies and methodologies.

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Last updated: 26 January 2020