This document discusses emerging transformative technologies and their potential impacts on humanity between now and 2050. It describes how humans may become "cyborgs" through technologies like augmented reality, virtual reality, brain-computer interfaces, artificial body parts, and nanobots in our bloodstream. It also discusses intelligent built environments and the potential merging of humans and technology into a new "Conscious-Technology Civilization." The document outlines many future technological trends and their possible synergies, and how these changes may shape the future in areas like intelligence, identity, and how we live. It closes by providing information about the Millennium Project and its work to study global futures.

1. Transformative Technologies for the
Future of Humanity
Prospecta Americas
October 24-25, 2019 Lima, Peru
Jerome C. Glenn, CEO
The Millennium Project

2. Humans becoming cyborgs
2020
2025
2030
2050
Conscious-Technology
Built environment becoming intelligent
When the distinction between
these two Mega Trends becomes
blurred, we will have reached the
Post-Information Age
and begin the
Conscious-Technology
Civilization

3. Living in AR and eventually VR
Record video, pictures to
iPhone, internet access, face
recognition, and other AI…
Samsung and Google
competing for this now.

4. Might this be your eye in the future?

5. Nanobots in our
blood are likely
to make us
healthier, longer
Microminiaturizing tech in & on our bodies
Source: New Atlas: medical

6. Artificial Body Parts with AI
Or 3D Printed
Or grown from stem cells

7. Clothes are becoming Smart Clothes

8. Jewelry is getting smart too

9. Brain to Computer to
Robot

10. Brain-to-cloud robotic for human media and
manufacturing tomorrow?
Brain-to-Brain interface demonstrated

11. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates 1991
By 2030-2050 millions of
people could become
augmented geniuses, and
what could we create?
Consider what these two geniuses created!
Source: reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/

12. Human Augmentation: AI-Brain Interface
as a “Neural Lace”
The
World
Artificial
Intelligence
Human
Brain
“Neural lace:” a mesh of
electronics [and photonics] that
will allow AI and the brain to
work together. – Elon Musk
This could help human brains
keep up with future
enhancements in AI.
https://www.neuralink.com/ is hiring now

13. Technologically enhanced
human intelligence
Source CBINSIGHTS

14. We know Cities are becoming Smart Cities
Source: azobuild.com
With…
IoT
AI
Cloud
Computing
Data analytics
Sensors
5G

15. …will be
connected to
the Internet of
Things
Source: medium.com
And our Robots…

16. We can also have our personal AI Avatar
searching the web while asleep…
… then wakes us up in
the morning….with all
kinds of interesting
things to do, filtering out
information pollution,
distilling just the best for
our unique self-
actualization, using
blockchain and smart
contracts.

17. Or our duplicate cyber-self generated
from future full-body scanning
Can improve medical
diagnosis AND test different
treatments on our duplicate
cyber-self to see what is the
best for our biological
bodies. Thousands of tests
could be done in very short
time to get the exact, unique
treatment for our bodies.
Such computer simulations
of our bodies seems
inevitable.

18. These two trends will merge
Source: https://www.sciencefocus.com/future-technology/whats-next-for-the-human-race/
We are becoming cyborgs
and
Our built environments will seem to
become conscious
Conscious-Technology is their merger

19. Consciousness
Technology
Technology Changes Consciousness and
Consciousness Changes Technology

20. Simplification/Generalization of History
and an Alternative Future
Age /
Element Product Power Wealth Place War Time
Agricultural
Extraction
Food/Res Religion Land Earth/Res Location Cyclical
Industrial Machine Nation-State Capital Factory Resources Linear
Information Info/serv Corporation Access Office Perception Flexible
Conscious-
Technology
Linkage Individual Being Motion Identity Invented

21. Harmonize and Synergize
Consciousness and Technology
• Masters of Technology: Technocrats
– Believes technology solves problems
• Masters of Consciousness: Mystics
– Believes consciousness solves problems
• How well mystics and technocrats collaborate could determine
the quality of the Conscious-Technology Age
• Everyone is part technocrat and part mystic, how well we
balance these within ourselves could determine how well we
live in the Conscious-Technology Age

22. Three Forms of Artificial Intelligence
 Artificial Narrow
Intelligence
 Artificial General
Intelligence
 Artificial Super
Intelligence

23. Next Technologies (NT)
Artificial Intelligence
Robotics
Synthetic Biology & Genomics
Computational Science
Cloud & Big Data Analytics
Artificial & Augmented Reality
Nanotechnology (two kinds)
IoT, Tele-Everything & Tele-
Everybody, the Semantic Web
Quantum computing
Tele-Presence, Holographic
Communications
Intelligence augmentation
Collective Intelligence
Blockchain
3D/4D Printing Materials/Biology
Drones, Driverless Cars (and
other autonomous vehicles)
Conscious-Technology
Synergies Among These

24. The Old Way of Seeing the Future of
Technologies: Linear and Separate
Artificial
Intelligence
Robotic
manufacturing
Computational Science
3-D4-D Priting
Nanotechnology
Quantum computing
Synthetic Biology
Drones
Artificial General
Intelligence
Tele-Everything &
Tele-Everybody
the SemanticWeb

25. Future Way of Seeing Future of
Technologies: Integration and Synergies

26. Future Synergies
Robotic
manufacturing
Drones
Quantum
computing
Robotic
manufacturing
3D，4D Printing
Augmented Reality
Tele-Presence
Holographics
Nanotechnology
Artificial General
Intelligence
Tele-Everything
Tele-Everybody
the SemanticWeb
Increasing
individual and
collective
intelligence
Synthetic Biology
Nanotechnology

27. Future Synergies
Artificial
Intelligence
Robotic
manufacturing
Quantum computing
Drones
Future
Technology
Robotic
manufacturing
3D，4D Printing
Augmented Reality,
Tele-Presence,
Holographics

28. What is possible… will change
Moore’s Law & Nielsen's Law
+
Artificial Intelligence acceleration to AGI
+
Computational science
+
Synergies among NT
These four together will change what we think is possible.

29. Increasingly Decisions are Made by ANI
Therefore we have to
audit AI’s Algorithms if
we are to confirm the
basis for decisions.
A few words about the
problem of the “utility
matrix” in AI
development.
We need Global ANI to
AGI Governance
Source: Cornerstone/blog

30. China Goal: Lead the World in AI by 2030
Who ever leads AI... rules the world - Putin
Human Brain Projects:
USA, EU, China
Artificial Brains:
IBM, Google, Facebook, Baidu,
Microsoft, Alibaba, Apple, Amazon
The Great Brain
Race is on!

31. The 4th Industrial Revolution Could Also Make
This Combination Far More Powerful…
Organized
Crime
CorruptionTerrorism
Information
Warfare
…Making Democracy
and Free Markets…
…An Illusion

32. Terrorist Organizations
(Political, Ethnic,
or Religious)
Private Sector
Competitive
Intelligence
Transnational
Organized Crime
Government
Organizations
Non-governmental
Organizations
Advanced
Marketing
Techniques
Information
Warfare

33. Use infowarfare-related data to
develop an AI model to predict
future actions;
identify characteristics needed
to counter/prevent them;
match social media users with
those characteristics and invite
their actions.
How Facebook…
could save face
Information
Warfare action
data cloud
Predictive
Analytics to
Identify
potential next
actions by day,
weeks, months
Identify
requirements to
counter or
preempt each
potential action
Match profiles
of individuals in
social media
Results added
to cloud and
improve AI for
Predictive
Analytics
Send notifications
to individuals about
actions they can take
(like getting ads in
Social Media)

34. A few Words about
The Millennium Project

35. … Acts like a TransInstitution
UN
Organizations
NGOs
and
Foundations
Universities
GovernmentsCorporations
The Millennium
Project
Created in 1996

36. 65 Nodes...and two regional networks in
Europe and Latin America
Nodes identify participants, translate questionnaires and reports, and conduct interviews,
special research, workshops, symposiums, and advanced training.
are groups of experts and institutions that connect global and local views in:
Tunisia
Yerevan
Sri Lanka

38. Initial Draft
Integrated Global
Strategy

40. For further information
Info@Millennium-Project.org
The following are resources are available at:
http://www.millennium-project.org
• Work/Technology 2050: Scenarios and Actions
• State of the Future 19.1
• Futures Research Methodology 3.0
• Global Futures Intelligence System