What if the future turn out in the best possible manner?
Created by Khanneasuntzu on 22/06/2012
Last updated: 10/07/12 at 07:17
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A legally deceased human is emulated on a mostly synthetic substrate amid a storm of legal battles. International debate starts whether or not this is a "legal person".
The 480 diameter space colony is situation in L4, and houses several hundred permanent colonists.
In a cocoon of radiation shielding the first human ascends to GEO by means of the Kenyan space elevator.
Life extension treatments are no globally universal and so affordable, as to have half of humanity on Earth be recipient for a range of life extension, regenerative or rejuvenative therapies.
A 22 pound container arrives in geostationary orbit, at the steadily climbing orbital platform, after a 2 week ascension, marking the commencement of cheap liftport operations.
http://www.youtube.com/user/spacewardfoundation?feature=results_main
The European Union starts first offering rejuvenation therapies in order to offset age related diseases and costs.
First commercial fusion reactor is made available.
For his advocacy work in life extension therapies. A sprightly young fellow walked onstage and accepted the award.
A female reaches age 125 after having received several years of life extension treatments, proving rejuvenation therapies are effective in extending human life beyond the normal range.
In these countries average life expectancy of the entire population (despite life extension defection!) increases faster than one per year.
First strand makes connection between HEO and UN liftport protectors in Kenya.
http://www.liftport.com/
Majority people in the developed world carry any number of commercial product nanoid blood in their veins, giving these people a sharply boosted metabolism.
The first human with a 'mostly' clean (debugged) genetic profile is born in China.
A baby is born in vitro- from two donor parents reproductive cells (who never met in real life), grown in a laboratory engineered womb in China.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_uterus
Most people use augmented reality on a near daily basis using cheap, high definition contact lenses and other wearables.
http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/bionics/augmented-reality-in-a-contact-lens/0
In many rich countries people (who can afford to) are routinely using any of a few dozen available life extension treatments. Evidence remains an issue (how you prove longevity?) but results are startling.
http://en.skq-project.ru/doc/index.php?ID=61
Scientific falsifiable evidence for life extension becomes incontrovertible. While still fairly expensive treatment safety is increasing rapidly and price/competition is improved quickly.
The basis conducts geological research and is manned with a 17 person international team.
The new factory facilities produce local goods and bypass international supply chains and production infrastructures.
http://www.kurzweilai.net/nanoscale-printers-may-bypass-factories?utm_source=KurzweilAI+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=fc17fb2a0c-UA-946742-1&utm_medium=email
Europe commences giving out a lean basic income of 350 euro to all of its citizens to compensate for sky-rocketing unemployment rates.
http://www.scoop.it/t/arguments-for-basic-income
http://www.visualnews.com/2011/12/16/chinas-fake-disneyland-the-park-that-never-was/
In Vitro meat enters food shelves after much resistance and is found to be delicious, cheap and quite healthy. Lean cut steaks receive widespread acceptance in weeks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_vitro_meat
3D printers to manufacture small articles of daily use, knicknacks and tools routinely church out a range of plastic and composite material items world wide.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_printing
First person receives a laboratory grown liver cultivated from his own tissue. The surgery is a success.
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120621-printing-a-human-kidney
http://www.kurzweilai.net/how-to-grow-a-human-liver-in-a-dish/comment-page-1#comment-19944
Construction starts on a 1 gigawatt experimental Space Based Solar Station, located in geostationary orbit over westcoast united states. Sponsored by Google.
http://www.scoop.it/t/space-versus-oil
Thor mission brings together a crack team of astronauts on a 6 month mission to geologically explore several Near Earth metallic Asteroids.
GoogleVerse, incorporation Google Earth and the basic architecture of Second Life goes online as the world's first encompassion VR and is an instantaneous success.
In an international attempt to anticipate an escalatory AI catastrophe the international community boots up one hundred A.I. systems that are meticulously designed to protect human interests from a "bad" Singularity.
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