By 2050 we'll be able to send memories, emotions and feelings across the Internet. Teenagers will love it. Instead of putting an emoticon (表情符号) at the end of every sentence, they will use an emotion: anger, happiness, or excitement.
I'm talking about telepathy (心灵感应), really. We'll still communicate the traditional way. Our children will wonder, What is a keyboard? We will enter the age of the "brain net".
Medicine will develop fast, too. We will have cured certain forms of cancer, and we will have begun to treat the disease like the common cold. We'll live with it. It will no longer be deadly. Technology will help in this respect. Smart toilets will perform liquid biopsies (液体活检) to discover cancer cells. Smart objects like phones will check us over automatically.
By 2050 I think we'll be able to grow many of the important organs (器官) of the body and, rather than allow the organs we're born with to become old and weak, we'll replace them. That's all coming. And it doesn't take much imagination to realise it.
A. We will do a few tests.
B. People will live an easy life.
C. We won't fear it like we used to.
D. Brain science will have changed communication.
E. We can already use human cells to grow skin, noses, ears, etc.
F. But communicating telepathically will avoid misunderstandings between people.
G. Our clothes will discover the beginnings of a heart disease, and advise us to get treatment.
