To the biologists, how do you think we may evolve in the future, to the chemists, how may we change or control this

Question: To the biologists, how do you think we may evolve in the future, to the chemists, how may we change or control this process and to the physicists, how may how our transport and technology change???? Thanks
- Keywords:
  evolution,
  future,
  technology,
  transport
Asked by bronzemine to Clare, Glafkos, Paul, Samantha on 13 Mar 2015.
- Clare Devery answered on 13 Mar 2015:
  
  Hi bronzemine, I’m a physicist so I’ll take a stab at your transport and technology question. Tough one though!
  
  Firstly for transport – I think the big drive at the minute is towards greener travel. There are electric cars on the market now, helping to reduce oil demands. They aren’t so great just now as they need to be charged regularly and there arn’t that many charging stations about. However as they progress and improve I think they will eventually be the main type of car on our roads.
  
  In terms of technology, the buzz word is smaller. Nanotechnology is coming to the fore and will find uses in all sorts of areas. I think technology will take a turn towards robotics also. I think robots will play a much bigger role in our future than they currently are!
- Samantha Terry answered on 13 Mar 2015:
  
  We will evolve in the future to rely more and more on the drugs/technology available. Same reason why more of us wear glasses now than ever before….
- anon answered on 13 Mar 2015:
  
  I believe the future of efficient batteries and methods of storing energy will be crucial for the future. I worked on a project about fuel cells in undergraduate! Clean efficient methods for transport will be important.
- Paul Booker answered on 15 Mar 2015:
  
  [Physicist part of the question…] – This is a big question – I’ll start with transport! The big one on the horizon is driverless cars – within a few years it’ll be recognised as a way to massively reduce congestion and save lots of lives – humans aren’t particularly good at driving. I think long-distance flights will slowly move to low Earth orbit, as once you’re above the atmosphere there’s even less friction, so maybe UK to Australia in just a couple of hours?! Generally things will have to become less dependent on fossil fuels too, both as they run out and to minimise the effects of climate change. Hard to comment on the whole rest of technology, but we probably aren’t too far off serious artificial intelligence that can grow out of our control – then who knows what will happen!
- Glafkos Havariyoun answered on 17 Mar 2015:
  
  Driverless cars, no roads, just tubes to travel in really fast.
  
  I think the main issue with humanity is time. We will always evolve to make more use of our time. That is why we strive for faster computers, cars , trains etc. We believe that time is the key to everything. An having more time will solve more problems. Even automating things like car production is to save manual time so that we have more time to do the thinking rather than the manual work.