The Next Fifty Years of Tech - Professor Victoria Baines

Come take a ride in the Tech Time Machine and explore how IT may change our lives in the next fifty years. By employing techniques used by science fiction writers, we can imagine how Artificial Intelligence, extended reality, mobile connectivity, quantum computing, and others will develop.

How will they converge, enable and accelerate each other? We can anticipate the opportunities and challenges technology may bring. Why should we fear disruption? Should we instead embrace it?

Chapters
00:00 Introduction
05:37 Visions of the future in science fiction and media
18:31 Peaks and troughs of tech 'hype'
24:39 Growing impacts of tech in jobs, healthcare and the environment
28:02 Quantum computers
32:03 Flying Cars
33:47 How our digital selves are changing
39:14 More dependence on technology in everyday life
42:24 Who governs cyberspace?
43:58 Conclusion
47:25 Q&A Session

This lecture was recorded by Professor Victoria Baines on 7th May 2024 at Barnard's Inn Hall, London

Victoria is IT Livery Company Professor of Information Technology.

She is a leading authority in the field of online trust, safety and cybersecurity. She frequently contributes to major broadcast media outlets on digital ethics, cybercrime and the misuse of emerging technologies, including Extended Reality and Artificial Intelligence. Her areas of research include electronic surveillance, cybercrime futures, and the politics of security.

The transcript of the lecture is available from the Gresham College website:

[qwertyuiopst]

A 'futures lecture' that would be fascinating is "extrapolating the consequences of a black swan event".

[PazLeBon]

lets play guess the future
why?
cos it can inspire sci fi movies with things like flying cars like they did 50 years ago :)

[sweetykitty]

Dr Baines putting on the most cyber future outfit hehe

[WildBillCox]

37:50 What you are describing is an addictive drug. Like we don't have enough social challenges already. This is tech used to divide us further, making us more easily manipulated through our emotional instabilities. As with any powerful mood altering drugs, these artificial personalities need strictly controlled.

[charlottesimonin]

The single technology that will expand quantum computer is really inexpensive superconducting materials that function at the temperature of liquid nitrogen.

[GlassEyedDetectives]

I always listen up when Dr Baines great talk, thank you. Futurists don't live in the real world...they long for a so-called 'better' world to their own liking. So, what do we do when some very seductive, impatient, well=funded and megalomaniacal Futurists go on the offence?....well, the entrenched Traditionalists dig in and go on the defense to protect what they hold dear for the love of those who just live in the 'Now' are utterly bamboozled, and totally oblivious as to what is going on around them, and totally ignorant of what is actually at stake, and thus they inevitably get captured, displaced or even destroyed during the conflict.

[dusanvuckovic]

from what I understand, a quantum computer can give a single answer but not how it got to it. plus you need to calculate an error margin!!!!

[MalachiMarvin]

Soylent was named after the book, not the movie, which did not contain cannibalism.

[phillipmitchell]

Perfect except the lack of space pants

[josephturner]

I bet you never noticed the Consumers For Christ in Brazil.

[hasato-e]

Why there is not thoughts about eternal life?

[jeremywvarietyofviewpoints]

In the future people will dress in silver and have brightly coloured hair.