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ClimateNE & Climate Change Schools Project support the move to a low-carbon, resilient economy and help businesses avoid risk and realise commercial opportunities. Posts by Jen Atkinson, Krista McKinzey and Harriet Thew » Anyone who attended the Thinking Digital conference in Gateshead last week no doubt came away with their heads full of the mind-boggling technological ideas that await us in the future.
There were holographic presentations - like something from a Star Wars film - and even one scientist who predicted that we will one-day live to the age of 1,000.
Another tech expert hailed the end of face-to-face meetings thanks to 'telepresence' while the audience was wowed by a futurologist who believes video games will one day be played in the real world in real time.
But for me the most impressive piece of future technology on display reminded me of the 1980s family film Inner Space.
For those not as old as me, or with better taste in films, the movie depicts a hapless shop assistant who accidently has a miniaturised manned-craft injected into his body with hilarious consequences.
Of course the bit about Dennis Quaid being shrunk down to the size of a speck of dust is pure make-believe but visions of a tiny craft no bigger than a blood cell navigating around out internal organs could perhaps become reality in the future.
According to leading visionary Ray Kurzweil - who successfully predicted the rise of the internet and the fall of the Soviet Union - the technology is currently being developed which will one day lead to tiny intelligent robots being inserted into our bodies to pick off diseased cells.
Apparently the technology has already been trialed in early stages and, in theory, could save lives in the future. The mind boggles.
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