Predictions 2016: Science and Technology

Science Update

Inner Earth Archaeology: finding more and more preserved species as we explore closer to the core of the earth. Subterranean archeology becomes a popular field of study and we discover more species as a result of this internal earth exploration. It's no coincidence that this happens just as we are turning our attention more to climate change.

Technology Update

Consciousness Replication: This phenomenon first appears in an interactive audio version much like Siri, then video, then hologram, and years from now as 3-dimensional robots programmed with voices of loved ones from the past. Someday, scientists will be able to replicate voices that weren't recorded in life, including those of ancestors which can be extracted from their possessions...so hold onto your great-grandmother's pearl necklace-you might want her replicated as your Robot Nanny someday!  But if you don't have ancestral possessions, those who came before you further back in time can be replicated at first vocally, then, eventually, recreated visually with physical materials as robots, by tracing back to their most likely traits through the encoding available in our own DNA.