After that, it is more likely that a really well-designed and affordable human-like synthetic type of robot or a small easy to transport device (self-propelled) with large information capacity and storage (and non-lethal) and advanced communication abilities will be developed as a sort of human assistant. (like today’s cell phones and laptops). But I have a fear that a temporarily “disabled” human population, resulting from uncontrolled and badly legislated robot tech, compared to previously existing “normal” human strengths and weaknesses of 100 years past (from the early 21st century) will be a large factor for medical practitioners in the resulting tech revolution of the 22nd century.

And, in the 22nd century, more programmable and safe and reliable forms of transportation will enable users to enjoy life and travel more, but probably will limit itself to safe “civilized” nations such as those that now operate diplomatically (West and some Asian) with regard to what is affordable and sells in terms of a tech advanced society. What can be found, as one extrapolates (time travel) involving this level of future thought are new biomass fuels and even safe nuke energy formats that are small enough to be considered “safe” with fail-safe features.

Our human adventures and exploits in the later years of the 21st century as oil runs out will be to somehow include guaranteed health protections and certain, lethal disease eradications and medical advances. Also, many well-educated people could contribute to the education of the next and former generations of humans, animals, whatever. Honest and forthright concerns for our elderly people, and elderly benefits and life-prolonging and enhancing tech can be realizd in this century.

Concerns about the creation of jobs for (and maintenance of jobs for) everyone who asks for one, job and career advancement, and certain sorts of research, development and “management of” the facts surrounding the truths about large, numerous, longer life, human populations, changing demographics and geographical life-choices, global human tech-inspired forms of depression and “meaning of life” problems, religion and tolerance of differences, large output energy creation and storage for use, highly developed defense weapons and accelerated Earth weather damage caused by global warming and abrupt climate change will also become tangible and quite real, in this century. We as Earth people have to deal with all of that and more, throughout today and on into the future.

The human colonizations of orbital space, including Earth, and the Moon and Mars habitation experiments starting in 2072 will take decades to produce any sort of space-based self-sufficiency and safety, but tech-wise, advanced space travel, food storage and recycling, water accumulation and gathering technologies, communications, using lasers and satellites and differing forms of screen and radio and beam communications and new space engine formats and flight tech will probably become the “norm” in the next century.

I think surprise/serendipity is built in. Don’t you get surprises from your Twitter feed all the time? I do. And I’m still exposed to media that surprises me. I think that is a problem that has been dreaded but that has not reared its head yet.