The 4 biggest science breakthroughs that Gen Z could live to see

There is only one difference between science fiction and science. Today's neural networks will be tomorrow's androids, and yesterday's mainframes are today's smartphones. It takes a long time before a technology becomes reality.

The world of science and technology is constantly changing. It is not possible to tell what the future will bring. We can make educated guesses based on recent discoveries in the fields of nuclear physics, quantum computing, and artificial intelligence.

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Medical nanobots

This could be the most important technological breakthrough in human history.

The premise is simple: tiny machines that function at the cellular level capable of performing tissue repairs.

It wouldn't mean filling your bloodstream with trillions of tiny pieces of metal and Silicon. There are plenty of reasons to believe that scientists could turn today's biological robots into artificial intelligence agents.

Imagine an artificial intelligence swarm controlled by a neural network attached to our brain-Computer-interfaces with the sole purpose of improving our biological functions.

We might not be able to solve immortality by the year 2200, but we can at least bridge the gap.

Fusion power and quantum optimization

fusion power is a technology that is sure to save a lot of lives. We're on the verge of figuring that out, at least in a rudimentary, proof-of-concept kind of way. We will have advanced the technology to the point of abundance by the time Gen Z's grandkids are old enough to drive.

That's when we can finally solve humanity's problems.

We will be able to use quantum computers to improve civilization because we will come close to perfect fusion power in the future.

It is theoretically possible that we could eventually scale its energy-production capabilities to such a degree that energy would be as ubiquitous for private and commercial use as air is.

We can imagine a race to the top for scientific endeavor, the ultimate goal of which would be to produce a utopian society.

There would be little incentive to fight over resources with near-infinite energy.

That is where quantum computers come in. Imagine what we could do with quantum supercomputing clusters if we could make classical algorithms learn to drive cars.

Every living creature in the known universe could be assigned a set of rules. The traveling salesman problem could be solved at the multiverse scale.

Warp drives

The technology of warp drives is very popular. We don't have to travel beyond our own solar system because Mars is so close.

Humans have a need for speed. We need spaceships that can travel really, really fast if we ever want to see stars other than Sol.

The universe doesn't seem to allow anything to travel faster than light. It's pretty slow. It would take four years to get to the closest star. It's like walking to the neighbor's house for 20 years.

This could be solved by using warp drives. We could exploit the wackiness of the universe to go further in a given amount of time without increasing speed.

This involves shifting through warp bubbles in space with exotic temporal properties, but in essence it is as simple as Einstein's observations that time works a bit differently at the edge of a black hole.

Physicists are excited over some interesting equations and simulations that are starting to make the idea of warp drives seem less like science fiction and more like science.

The warp drive would increase the odds of humans finding alien life.

Maybe aliens are a few blocks over if they aren't right next door. Who knows what our long-range sensors will be able to detect if we start firing probes beyond non-warp ranges?

The metaverse (no, seriously)

Don't laugh. It's understandable if you don't think the metaverse belongs on this list. It's just a bunch of cartoons and bad graphics that you need a virtual reality headset for.

The metaverse of 2200 will be completely different. If you have listened to music in the past, it will be possible to figure out what song you want to hear. Your brain-embedded artificial intelligence assistant will know what song you want to hear in the year 2200 because it has a direct connection to the area of your mind that processes sound, memory, and emotion.

The ideal metaverse would be a place that is completely different from reality. You can control the metaverse so you will only know it is fake.

It's obvious that jacking into the Matrix could pose a lot of risks, but the ability to take a vacation from reality could have positive implications.

Your own reality is the ultimate freedom. Whoever owns the server it runs on is going to be in charge of the future.