Your life in 2050

Your bed wakes you automatically through a system of gentle vibrating, rocking motions with the gradual introduction of light, simulating sunrise. As your eyes open, the bed slowly drops to the floor.

You then enter the bathroom which auto­mat­i­cally adjusts to your favourite set­tings from the room tem­per­a­ture to music and coloured light­ing, from the height of the wash basin and toi­let bowl to your pre­ferred sur­face of mahogany wood, pro­jected onto screens with 100% real­ism.  Nicely the wash basin becomes a make-up stu­dio and the mir­ror turns into a news screen as you wave your hand.

It is also a relief to see that your health is good after the toi­let analysed your urine, and the tooth­brush col­lected infor­ma­tion from the saliva and blood read­ings, all of which is done with non-inva­sive meth­ods.

You then move to the kitchen, which becomes active on arrival. Your robot cook makes a nice breakfast of muesli, scrambled eggs and orange juice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZaanMB3-6I

And then it’s time to work.

At this point, you put on your AI glasses linked with your AI watch and start to scan the news headlines and details of the day. It surprises you that people used to need a mobile phone or laptop, but that was then and this is now. In fact, what really makes you happy is that your glasses have headphones built in, using voice-to-skull technologies.

The first thing to do is create a presentation and article about the world in 2080. You touch the app – which hovers in UltraHD from your AI glasses projection – and create the article by speaking. Once you are happy with it, you ask for a 4D generation of the article as a presentation. The system does this for you automatically. Nice.

You whizz this away to your colleagues for review. Now, it’s time to exercise, so you walk to your treadmill and switch your glasses to fitness mode. Immediately you see a projection of a new world in UltraHD 4D of a beautiful forest and the treadmill automatically starts with your preferred settings. First 1k in slow mode, then 3k at 10 kph, and finish with a slowdown 1k at 6 kph. It feels good and feels even better as the left of your screen glasses shows you your heartbeat and calories burnt.

Back to the bathroom for a shower, a closed-loop water recycling system to ensure a sustainable and efficient showering experience, and then to get dressed. Your robodresser kicks into action, and ask for blue. Within seconds, you’re dressed in blue jeans, blue shirt and blue jacket. Nice.

Then you realise that it is time to meet your colleagues to discuss the presentation. You go to your office and the Holozoom app pops up automatically with the reminder. As you say join the meeting, your team appear in the room.

Your team consist of Jay, X, Boom and Zander. The brainstorming begins … you wonder why people used to go to offices and the Holozoom meetings are so much easier. No reason to leave home, commute or do things face-to-face as the Holozoom feels just like face-to-face.

Once the Holozoom meeting ends, it’s back to the real world and time to walk the dog. It’s a real dog – his name is Ziggy – it’s not a robodog although, when separated, you can keep up with your real dog’s world using the robodog app. In fact, just at that moment, the robodog app tells you the dog’s needs and it’s pretty obvious he’s ready for major evacuation.

Taking the elevator from your 63rd floor apartment, you go to the park. The park is on the roof, by the way, and the roof links your skyscraper with four others.

It makes for a nice space.

After half an hour, you sit and have lunch at the rooftop café. The café has not staff and no kitchen. It’s just an app in your glasses where you select what you want. You choose pasta, salad and an orange juice, along with a bowl of water for Ziggy and lab-grown meat (that’s laboratory not Labrador).

Within minutes a drone arrives and delivers your order. Good times.

Ziggy is excited about his lunch and you enjoy the pasta – Spaghetti Carbonara.

Whilst eating, you study the other people on the roof. Your glasses tell you information about each person, their names and where they live in the apartment block. You notice that Zander is up here and so, after finishing your lunch (a robot takes everything away), you walk over for a chat. It’s nice to see someone in real-life.

Both of you remove your glasses and discuss the presentation that’s being developed. The presentation is for an advertising campaign of a company focused upon the Moon. Of course, you can go to the Moon for a holiday and Disneyspace’s theme park there is the ultimate destination. Zander thinks we should be more “out there” and you ask what that means. “It means that we should be out there in Disneyspace”, he replies.

Wow!

Getting back to the apartment, you buzz for your boss and ask if there is budget to have some of you visit Disneyspace. It’s a long conversation but, by the end, you think you’ve convinced her that you can go there with Zander. That’s contingent on winning the contract, but could lead to further work as Disney’s new Mars project is being planned. It would be incredible to develop both projects.

You use the Holozoom to let Zander know and then work more on the presentation and ideas quietly at home.

As the evening arrives, you order dinner – delivered by drone again – and settle Ziggy for the night. Watching Star Wars Episode XX: The Time for Peace (2046) on Eyeflicks, you start feeling tired and so, late in the evening, you go back to bed.

Your bed adjusts its support to keep your spine in perfect alignment based you’re your sleeping position, weight and pressure points. More than this, it has the ability to adjust the temperature, the lighting and even sounds for the most relaxing sleep possible.

Night, night.

 

For more, checkout:

• https://bedadvice.co.uk/beds-of-the-future/
• https://www.pop-up-my-bathroom.de/en/blog/2014/12/bad-2034.php
• https://www.fitkituk.com/blog/gyms-of-the-future-ai-shows-you-how-you-could-be-working-out-in-2050/
• https://www.foodnotify.com/en/blog/future-restaurants