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The world in 10 years

we’ve been imagining what the world will be like in 10 years.

Undoubtedly, there are many things that have changed in the last 10 years, so much so that we could not even imagine some scientific and technological advances that are part of everyday life in 1999, when we launched Teknopolis.

And have you ever wondered what the next milestones of science will be? We played a little game and imagined what the world would be like in 10 years. To this end, we have approached a number of experts in a number of fields. Let's see what predictions these experts have made to us.

WHAT WILL BE THE HEALTH OF THE EARTH IN 10 YEARS?

ENRIQUE ZUAZUA; MATHEMATICIAN: I think he's still going to hang.

ITZIAR LAKA; RESEARCHER AND LANGUAGE TEACHER: If we keep going like this, it's gonna be bad.If we change our attitude and habits, it won’t be that bad. However, I am not very optimistic about this issue.

ÁNGELES IZTUETA; MATHEMATICIAN: 10 years is not much, after all it’s just a few nanoseconds. But I live near Garoña, and who knows what can happen during that time. I'm talking about

E. According to Z.: By then, perhaps, the consciousness of man will be heightened.If we were able to change this situation in the next decade and the health of the Earth would improve, I would be happy with that.

WHAT WILL BE THE NEXT STAR OF TECHNOLOGICAL DEVICES?A.

According to I.: For example, a necklace where we have the phone, the data storage, the radio and so on.

I. According to L.: There's a book there called The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. There was a fish named Babel. It wasn't a device, it was a real fish, but if we made it up, it would fit through the ear and that fish would do the job of a universal translator.

By JESUS M. UGALDE; PROFESSOR OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY: The laser itself was invented for more than 20 years, but no one knew what to use it for, so maybe today there is this device that will be the star in 10 years. WHAT

WOULD YOU FEEL IF YOU HAD A ROBOT AS A COLLEAGUE?

According to L.: I think we have robots as co-workers, I don’t know, that thermomix that my mother recently bought is a co-worker and is a robot. According to

J. M. According to U.: The computers that we use, all the devices with numerical controls that we use, now, for example, that same device that I'm looking at, isn't that kind of thing?

According to I.: I feel cold just thinking. I like to work as a team and surrounded by human warmth.

I'm talking about E. According to Z.: The computer, the phone, they're almost members of the job, right? What would I do without a computer? There we have the agenda, there we have all our results, all our writings, all our memories. WHAT

IF THE ROBOT WAS YOUR BOSS?

According to I.: Both flexibility and imagination are absolutely necessary to play the role, and robots don’t have that, so bad.

I. According to L.: If this robot of mine were one of those replicators that appear in the film Blade Runner, and also a very good and very nice boss, I would be delighted. According to

J. M. According to U.: I can't even imagine it. Maybe Windows is something like that. Take out accounts, Windows always does what it

wants. WHAT WILL SCIENCE NEVER ACHIEVE?J.

M. According to U.: What science will not achieve is to avoid the effort required to learn science itself. I'm talking about

A. According to I.: Avoiding death, that's impossible.

I. According to L.: I believe that science will never, because that is not its goal, solve the moral problems that exist in our society; that is up to us, but it is not something that we will do through the method of science. I'm talking about

E. According to Z.: Maybe there are some questions that will stay up in the air about our universe. Where is our universe located? Who created it? Who put up that chisel?