Top Ten Predictions for 2116

By GilPress
August 4th, 2016
- AI

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The SmartThings Future Living Report was authored by a team of leading academics including TV presenter and one of the UK’s leading space scientists, Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock, award-winning futurist architects and lecturers at the University of Westminster Arthur Mamou-Mani and Toby Burgess, as well as pioneering urbanists Linda Aitken and Els Leclerq.

The top ten predictions for future living:
1.	Virtual work meetings – the ability to work from anywhere and attend meetings remotely via avatars/holograms	48%
2.	Commercial flights into space	41%
3.	Virtual interior decoration so that you can program your own surroundings/ LED walls that adapt your surroundings to your mood	26%
4.	3D printed houses/furniture/food – meaning you can download and print these things at home	25%
5.	At-home scanning capsules/pods that can diagnose health problems and administer medicines/treatments	24%
6.	Colonising other planets as we use up resources on Earth	19%
7.	AI becoming a normal part of daily life – taking over from humans in many industries	18%
8.	Giant skyscrapers that can house entire cities: the construction of which is allowed for by the development of new super strong materials	18%
9.	At-home hydroponic farms (that don’t require soil) where you can grow your own food	17%
10.	Earth-scrapers – buildings that are built down into the ground, so entire cities are subterranean due to space constraints and also to provide further shelter

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Last updated on August 3rd, 2016.