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How Will Our Lives Look Like in 2025s and Later

Dear Readers, I couldn't post to this blog since 2017 due to a very hectick workload but I will continue it as now I am writing a book about 2050. It is called "Technology Horizons 2050 and Beyond: Emerging Technologies Shaping the Next 50 Years of Human and Machine Evolution" I will share some early chapters here. Here is the description of the book: What will the world look like in 2050 when emerging technologies in biology, artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and space exploration converge into one interconnected fabric of human and machine evolution? In Technology Horizons 2050 and Beyond, I draw on five decades of work in technology, cognitive science, and global innovation to predict the coming five decades. Yet this vision began far earlier, rooted in a childhood where I cultivated extraordinary imagination through cognitive enhancement methods, learned to think beyond the box, and developed the ability to view reality from both the microscopic and telescopic scales. This dual perspective allows me to link scientific precision with metaphysical insight, creating forecasts that connect present-day breakthroughs with their long-term implications. Going beyond technical analysis, the book is a synthesis of rigorous research, scenario planning, and intuitive pattern recognition, an approach that anticipates shifts others may overlook. I map the future of technology not only through the lens of engineering and economics, but also through the cultural, ethical, and philosophical questions it raises. You will explore thirty interconnected domains shaping the future: regenerative medicine and biotechnology, bioprinting and nanotechnology, advanced genetic engineering, the Internet of Bodies and planetary connectivity, intelligent automation and the future of work, artificial general intelligence, neuromorphic computing, quantum computing and AI integration, smart cities of the future, tokenized economies, immersive realities, space colonization and planetary defense. Each chapter follows a three-stage foresight model—2030 Outlook, 2040 Transition, and 2050 Vision—providing a roadmap from today’s innovations to the transformative systems that will redefine life, work, and human potential over the next half-century. This book goes beyond speculative science fiction. It is grounded in current research, industry developments, and practical foresight, making it a credible and indispensable resource for thought leaders, entrepreneurs, artists, technologists, policymakers, and philosophers who seek to understand the future of human-machine evolution. Whether you are building the next breakthrough company, shaping policy for emerging technologies, investing in frontier science, or exploring the deeper meaning of human evolution in an age of machines, this book offers both a strategic guide and a creative provocation. The future will not wait for us to be ready. It will unfold in the minds of those who dare to see it before it arrives, who can stand at the intersection of science and imagination, and who have the courage to turn the improbable into the inevitable. This book is an invitation to be among them.

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Why 2050?

A friend of mine asked why 2050.
It is an important year for my generation.
Some of us can see it some cannot.
For those who can see it, it will be a dichotomy between what we experienced in our childhood and in our elderly years. The reason is exponential growth in technology.
We will continue this discussion over another coffee soon.

Human skin as input for mobile devices

I have been observing progress in human computer interaction for a number of years as part of my profession. It is fascinating to read about a recent paper by Chris Harrison, a third-year Ph.D. student in Carnegie Mellon University collaborated with Desney Tan and Dan Morris of Microsoft Research. The media release is titled "Carnegie Mellon Student Uses Skin as Input
For Smart Phones and Other Mobile Devices" and can be found from the link. The paper will be presented on April 12, at CHI 2010, the Association for Computing Machinery's annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Atlanta.

Chris said: "With Skinput, we can use our own skin — the body's largest organ — as an input device. It's kind of crazy to think we could summon interfaces onto our bodies, but it turns out to make a lot of sense. Our skin is always with us, and makes the ultimate interactive touch surface."

Why is this paper important? It is because the idea (if supported and developed properly) can make tremendous impact on our interaction with computer devices and it can create a new paradigm in this field. You can see some further explanation and some photos from Chris' website here.

I'd like to obtain your views on implications of using human skin as an input device for mobile devices.

Mysteries of blackholes

I am not only fascinated by mysteries of very tiny things such as atoms, electrons but also very big things such as life itself, the universe and the growing multi-verses. Amazing to see NASA is being so generous and visionary again!

Black Holes are fascinating and mysteries! We know so little about them. The good news is that the American space agency NASA, has approved a new mission to study the mysteries of black holes.

As you may have heard hypothetically or should I say theoretically they were "created when the very black biggest stars explode at the end of their lives, the massive gravity wells suck in anything that ventures too close, crushing and stretching matter at the subatomic level."

So fascinating that "anything falling past a point called the event horizon will fall forever into the black holes singularity, a place where the laws of physics cease to exist, not even light can escape hence the name. They will start "working immediately with a launch in two years time. The new spacecraft will be called the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR. It will use a high energy X-ray telescope in Earth orbit to study black holes." Stay tuned to be informed, of course, it is in my radar; let see how big is a cosmic string is:-)

Here's some background scientific and dramatic background in the mean while about black holes!


Those who cannot see the video, this is how some of us can visualize these mysteries things:


Are you curious about this mystery too? What do you expect as outcome of this study by NASA? They better satisfy our curiosity:-)

Nanotechnology is speaking!: new materials to cause rain

Needing rain desperately in my town and other parts of the world, I'd like to share an interesting study from London Centre for Nanotechnology and University College London. The article to introduce the study is titled "Molecular ice chain structure could be used to seed clouds and cause rain" and freshly uploaded on the Nanowerk site, waiting to be read:-)

The article reports that "This week's Nature Materials (9 March 2009) reveals how an international team of scientists led by researchers at the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) at UCL have discovered a novel one dimensional ice chain structure built from pentagons that may prove to be a step toward the development of new materials which can be used to seed clouds and cause rain."

Dr Michaelides says: "For the first time, we have shown that ice can build an extended one dimensional chain structure entirely from pentagons and not hexagons. This discovery leads to fundamental new understanding about the nature of hydrogen bonding at interfaces (there is no a priori rule that hexagons should form) and suggests that when people are searching for new ice nucleating agents which can be used to seed clouds and cause rain, they do not necessarily need to focus on materials that have hexagonal surfaces - other types of surfaces may be good too."

Look forward to more progressing studies in this area! Your thoughts?

Regards,
Mehmet

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NanoPen may write new chapter in nanotechnology, in business and in our lives

Writing devices such as pen, pencil and even keyboards were so important once but are taken for granted nowadays. They are important communication enablers; we only appreciate their importance when they disappear in those awkward moments someone will give you an important information and you are in the middle of nowhere with a pen.

In this post I'd like to introduce and cite a new concept called "NanoPen" which is now at conceptual stage and discussed for possibilities in the body of knowledge.

Here is an excerpt from the article titled "NanoPen may write new chapter in nanotechnology manufacturing" "Researchers in California are reporting development of a so-called "NanoPen" that could provide a quick, convenient way of laying down patterns of nanoparticles — from wires to circuits — for making futuristic electronic devices, medical diagnostic tests, and other much-anticipated nanotechnology applications."

This just reminded me an episode in SpongeBob where with his pen he creates himself or new creatures; however he regrets at some point!

A NanoPen could change the world but we need to invest a lot of brain power and financial investment on it. What do you see the opportunities, possibilities and implications for such a breakthrough device?

Regards,
Mehmet

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