future look like to you
the matrix planet of the apes back to
the future to me the future looks like
my father I remember I remember when I
was just six years old watching TV
pretending to be Jimmy Neutron
with my little sister and my father
comes walking in with books large large
books and of course just like any
typical dad he introduces to a child of
six years mathematics
but not just any maths the history of
mathematics and we spent the entire time
that day discussing in detail about math
and science how it’s changed how it’s
evolved the importance of zero the
significance of infinity and I remember
looking up to him that day asking him
and confused as a confused brown child
baba why do I need to know this and he
replied without skipping a beat because
I said so fast forward a couple years
down the line I’m now 12 years old
starting the seventh grade officially
the beginning of my pee design how
wonderful to my father he was over the
moon he finally found a way he could
communicate with me in a way that he
loved I had come of age in his eyes we
spent late nights talking and he’d he’d
be giving me implications for my designs
he’d be telling me suggestions
suggestions that were far too complex
for anybody to understand I remember
arguing with him Baba for the last time
I’m not making a rocket ship for my
seventh grade design project so coming
back to my father he’s always been an
outlier he doesn’t fit in I died and
because of this his thoughts his ideas
his perceptions were always outside of
the mainstream way of thinking he quit
his job at 35 to implement his own
innovations his own ideas for the future
he very much disliked working and
building up on a job or an invention
that’s already been done
for he wanted to make his mark and he
wanted to change the world and that was
when one day he got a phone call um
hello is this mr. Krim yeah yeah yeah I
did
meets me I’d like to talk to you about
your recent rocket ship design it’s the
best we’ve ever seen I think it might
change the world and that was a day I
regretted not doing my rocket ship for
my seventh great design project okay
that’s that’s that’s not what happened
he didn’t he hasn’t changed the world I
believe that he will one day well I do
know right now is that he has changed my
perception about technology and forcing
into our future
so as you almost know by now I
absolutely dreaded my father’s lectures
about math and science and physics and
electronics
they were very vogue and now that I look
back I realized that without people like
him in this world maybe we wouldn’t have
cars phones buses mechanisms Automation
he makes people think and for the past
15 years no matter how long how boring
how tedious he made me think about
technology and science and how they’ll
come together and become a root cause
for change into our future lifestyle so
let me ask you again what does the
future look like to you hello my name is
Manorama and i’m going to be talking
about the evolution of technology on
human lifestyle in the next 10 years so
now I talk about lifestyle I talk about
me getting up in the morning going to
school working on the personal project
and then I come back home and I work on
the personal project again and what I’ve
come to realize is that these little
tasks these little jobs that we have to
do every day such as picking up our
groceries or cleaning up our floor going
to school coming back from school they
accumulate to about 60% of our day
leaving the other 40% for other
important tasks that we need to do in
that timeframe
which is why I find myself at 12:30 a.m.
watching that recent Riverdale episode
because I just don’t have enough time
within the day to do something that I
want to do things that make me happy so
imagine you live for about 80 years
you’ve just spent those 45 years doing a
run in the mill mundane tasks what if I
told you that that dreaded part of your
life those 45 years could be translated
into something more meaningful something
that you love to do in order for you to
understand this you need to be able to
understand the nervous system the
nervous system is compiled with both the
nerve cells and fibers that transmit
different impulses to different parts of
our bodies going into more detail the
motor neurons are responsible for
transmitting those signals through our
spinal cord to our muscles and then
allowing our muscles to contract so
imagine you want to click play on that
Netflix episode on your computer you’re
thinking about it and those nerves those
impulses travel through your arm and
allow you to click press on that button
what if I told you that by 2027 simple
tasks such as pressing a button wouldn’t
even need to be an issue anymore it is
of my belief that nanobots will be
connected to our brains wirelessly
allowing machines to do the job for us
in order for you to understand this you
need to be able to understand what a
nanobot is a nanobot
is sort of like a chip a chip implanted
into your brain that’s connected instead
of your muscles or your veins or your
nerves it’s connected to a machine
allowing the job allowing the machine to
do the job for you
so imagine there’s a Diet Coke right
here on the table you think about
grabbing it and those impulses those
nerves they go through your spinal cord
to your muscle allowing you to grab that
diet coke but with the implants of
nanobots instead of just walking over
and grabbing the diet coke with your
muscles because of your impulses the
machine can bring it to you so you could
watch that recent Riverdale episode and
you could drink a diet coke without
wasting any time and doing something
that you love doing this is because
nanobots are gonna outsource our
thoughts so instead of watching that
Riverdale episode at 12:30 a.m. you can
watch it at 10 o’clock providing
yourself with more time to sleep a
higher productivity rate and a generally
better health a scientist in the name of
Ray Cruz L provided a similar idea the
nanobots would be connected to the cloud
allowing memories information thoughts
ideas emails to be logged within our
brains but not only that the information
that we’re gathering from the cloud is
from the internet so we can easily be
get access to all this information thus
improving our characteristics and our
emotions to a higher complexity in short
we are going to be more funnier more
impressive and better at sharing loving
sentiments
it is also said that nanobots are going
to further improve our learning making
us more unique and here’s why some
people tend to believe when they read
science fiction that cyborg technologies
will take over our minds making us less
emotional less human less prone to
developing our own ideas and relying
mainly on the machines to do it for us
but in fact it’s the exact opposite
knowledge is power knowledge is key and
our ability to apply knowledge is what
differentiates us from other people
otherwise we’d all be equal think about
it like this think about a person
studying and an international IB school
well think differently than a person in
a third world country that doesn’t have
access to all this information with the
implants of nanobots
we can information sharing is unlimited
nobody is being left out everybody can
have the same amount of information
between two sides and the cloud will
provide a universe of information so the
question still remains is now that we’ll
be able to gather all this information
that means we don’t have to go to school
right well unfortunately you still have
to go to school and
but the think about the future as having
a different learning system a system
that’s non informational and non
research base maybe an even improvement
of the ivy program and here’s why and
here’s why because because so instead of
spending five weeks learning about cell
processes you could already know it
beforehand and spend those five weeks
applying that knowledge and instead of
just doing standardized tests you’d
apply knowledge and expand your
creativity and the more creative you are
the more you’ll be able to apply our
knowledge to different applications
which will differentiate you between an
average student and a genius student so
in that idea at mind with the idea of
being able to gather information and
access the Internet in a second they’re
my practicably a Google Translate
implanted to our brains so we’ll elect
which will language barrier ever be a
cause of concern well we all speak the
same language we all speak the same
language possibly in order for you to
understand this think about it like this
some people tend to believe that in the
future Wars are going to come and
they’re gonna disrupt our society but
with the idea of language that might
even improve our politics our economics
are interdependent trades and business
so instead of Wars coming to dispute our
society we could the the result of it of
communication and knowledge being shared
equally would result in probably world
peace I could win a beauty pageant with
my world peace idea just saying the idea
of peace also strongly correlates with
health maintaining the perfect health
living a longer life in the future it is
of my belief that home based tools will
be provided in our homes allowing us to
understand and read certain diseases
that we might have such as tuberculosis
Zika swine flu those sorts of things
your doctor can check for your results
and while you’re in bed and give you the
go ahead through the prescription drug
and which can be delivered to your home
by Amazon drones in the matter of three
to five minutes
ECG devices and ultra some portable
ultrasounds will bring health care to
your home Fitbit is already working on
monitoring monitoring our everyday
steps our sleeping patterns and our
heartbeats health care sensors will
ensure that we are healthy every second
of every day ensuring that our blood
flow our heartbeat our air flow is
constant so with the idea of improving
our health will that have an impact to
how long we’re gonna live I was going to
explain this in a second so another
great breakthrough that might occur in
our future is the ability to live beyond
our past generations ever since the
beginning of time people have been
obsessed with immortality being able to
live on forever
that’s the creation of fantasy movies
for little girls who like to watch and
binge watch Twilight every night trust
me I am one of them it’s okay we’re in a
safe place here and though we’re not
going to be able to reach the point of
immortality we will be able to extend
our lifespan to about a hundred and
twenty years of age this is because by
optimizing our DNA with new medications
and drugs we can potentially remove
retired cells retired cells that was an
idea reinforced by Baker and Vaughn
derson when they were trying to find a
way to stop cancer the gene the gene PU
bu BR one is a gene responsible for
aging and by removing scenes it cells
which are which is the protein
identified by the name p16
we can potentially cheat death so with
the idea of greater longevity within our
reach I suggest you start drawing up
that long bucket list now so living
longer means we means we might spend
more time on transportation or maybe not
yes I have to say that over time our
transportation system has changed from
walking two horses to care
Kerris carriages two bicycles two cars
two cars with engines but there haven’t
been holistic changes done to our
transportation system yes we have been
able to modify the designs make them
more appealing to people people want to
see these cool cars rolling by but the
function and the engine has still been
constant over many years in the future
it is predicted that we are gonna be
moving into moving towards driveless
cars and self passenger drones so you
could be you so you could go from the
CIS campus to Changi Airport in the
matter of three minutes and we no longer
have to be a prisoner of the daily
commute I know that is the main thing
that I’m looking forward to so ask
yourself now the future the future the
future
the future starts with you nanobots
pouring cereal for you in the morning
you driving to school with drive a drive
Lascars you learning in a school system
an improved version making you more
creative making you more unique and
spending the 120 years of extended life
doing what is meaningful the future has
millions of possibilities based on the
ideas of scientists engineers doctors
designers and maybe even myself maybe
even myself and because of this I look
back and I sank
thirty-five-year-old Khurram forgiving
six-year-old man all those millions of
books because it has expanded my mind
into different possibilities and ways
our future can be implemented a future worth sharing thank you very much