World 2050 – Declaration

Founded in 2017 to mark the 20th anniversary of the creation of Kaspersky Lab, Earth 2050 offers a set of inspiring intellectual expectations for the world in 2050.

And what will life look like after thirty years. The site is an interactive multimedia project that brings together and meets the expectations of experts and thinkers on expected and anticipated social and technical developments over the next 30 years, in order to identify the global challenges facing humanity and the challenges facing them. possible ways to address and resolve them.

Today, the site offers a rich and diverse set of forecasts, future scenarios and more, covering a wide range of topics.

A number of new contributions have been added to the site by influential figures such as Lord Martin Rees, Royal Astronomer of the United Kingdom, Professor at the University of Cambridge and former President of the Royal Society, Stephen Hoffman, Investor and businessman, and Peter Tachel, human rights activist. Galoff, security researcher, and Alexei Malanov, malware badyst for Kaspersky Lab.

And is considering new visions for 2050

On several issues, including:

The exchange of mobile devices with electronic implants in the brain allows direct communication and builds on a thought capable of "providing" brain with skills and knowledge back, as well as that on the impact on individual consciousness and privacy of thought.

The capacity to bring about total transformations of life at the genetic level of man, through genetic modification.

Potential Effects of Errors in Advanced Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Systems.

Current forms of political systems are eroding, with cooperation in the selection of ordinary people to approve legislation.

The end of the industrial technological era with the depletion of fossil fuels in the world and the occurrence of economic and environmental damage.

The end of large meat production when most people become "vegetarians", while the meat comes from biopsies taken from cattle living in the open air.

According to Dmitri Galoff's 2050 theoretical predictions, human knowledge of brain function and its ability to improve or repair it becomes very advanced in 2050, allowing it to remember everything and learn new things very quickly. . Most children receive the latest memory recall implants to support their learning, making learning easier than ever before.

Since brain damage caused by a head injury is easily repairable, memory loss will not return to a satisfactory state and people with psychiatric illnesses, such as depression, will be quickly cured.

The technologies that support this prediction have already been found in some form since the end of the second decade of this century. Memory implants are a natural development of deep brain stimulation implants that began in 2018.

But the security researcher at Kaspersky Lab pointed out that each technique had "another dark side", explaining that the medical, social and economic effects of memory growth "were important.

"The new threats that have emerged over the past decade include the manipulation of groups through implanted or erased memories of political events or conflicts, and even the creation of what can be called" human robot networks ", which" connect "human minds to a network of customers are managed by cybercriminals, without being aware of the order.

"Electronic threats, reoriented and shaped from decades past, are intended to" remind "world leaders in cyberspace, as well as celebrities, citizens and businessmen, to steal, remove or "lock" the memory, Request a ransom on the devices).

This does not leave us thinking about the possibility of this scenario, but the fact that stakeholders did not consider in the future the potential technical vulnerabilities of security when technologies began to develop at the end of the second. decade. Understand future risks and develop strategies to deal with them.