What will the world be in twenty years from now? It certainly with be a much different place from what is it today. We can well imagine the kind of world likely to be twenty years hence in view of the fast developing technology. There is a famous saying “Necessity is the mother of invention”. Our needs to live a more relaxed life will never come to an end and neither will inventions, which are changing over world today and the world to come tomorrow.
Let me introduce you to a typical day of my life with all these inventions and technology around me. I wake up in the morning by a device called an alarm-clock. It is such an alarm-clock that when I wave my hand in front of it, it switches off by itself. When the alarm sounds, the radio, the lights and may coffee machine all switch on with it. All I have to do is get up, wash and change my clothes. I wish there was a machine to do all that for me as well. May be there will be one for the generations to come.
When I am ready, I get into my car and press a button inside the car to open the garage gate outside. The car tells me the time, the temperature inside and outside the car, how much fuel it has, how far I have travelled and also blesses me with a bit of music and telephone call. All these are normal matters nowadays but when I become an old man I may be riding around in the car which drives on its own and has a computer for navigation. All I may to do is sit back and finish my left-over work from last night and get away from the hectic traffic.
In the future I don’t even think I’ll have to move about to do anything. By that time there will be a slot at the back of my neck. I’ll put a control unit in it and whatever I think, will happen, such as to operate the microwave oven or switch on the hot water-system. It sounds crazy but you never know.
After office, it is time to go home, but there is another problem; nothing for dinner at home. Never mind, all I have to do is dial a number on the phone and order something off the menu of Chinese restaurant at the other side of the city which will be determine in not more than fifteen minutes. In the meantime, I take a shower. In the future, I may not be turning tape to increase or decrease the amount of hot water and get a perfect shave by a robot’s hand without getting the cuts.
