A day in 2050
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Written by Rejean Bourgault (Canada) & Olivier Adam (Singapore), Co-founders of 5Deka Inc. – All Rights Reserved
New York - I am 43, married and father of 3. Before going to bed at 22:00, I set my personal wearable bio monitor at 7:00 o’clock which means I want to wake up the latest at 7:00 tomorrow, Thursday. Then I kiss my kids goodnight, go to bed and read my e-book with interactive case studies before falling asleep.
Here is what happens next…
During the entire night, my PWBM (personal wearable bio monitor) monitors my sleep and it analyzes when is the best time to wake me up between 6:30 and 7:00, considering I want to wake up during a light sleep cycle while I am calm and rested and not during a deep and profound dream. So at 6:47, I am welcomed to the day by my personal mini-robot, sitting on my night table (this technology is based on a popular product introduced in 2008 time frame which was then called the Rabbit).
While gradually opening the blinds, my personal mini-robot says: “Good morning David, hope you had a good night of sleep. It will be a beautiful day today, blue skies with a forecast of 28 degree Celsius, your first meeting is at 9:00 with Mr. Johnson, Vice-President Marketing of 5Deka International. The stock value of 5Deka is now at 85.06$ up 3%; the most recent news concerning 5Deka is their acquisition of Web5.0 technologies, a new start up from Finland. Remember that you have a dentist appointment at 15:00 and your son’s live hockey practice at 19:00 tonight is cancelled. In sports news, Lance Armstrong Junior son’s announces his participation at the Tour of Europe for this summer with the US Government Web portal team.
Then I walk to my bathroom, where the light intensity increases as I enter the room and my favourite music starts to play. While I am approaching the shower, the shower starts automatically at my personal setting temperature, thanks to my PWBM and its wireless capability.
My house concierge, Asimo 5, a sophisticated robot manufactured in Japan by Honda, detects I am up and prepares me a nice cup of coffee. While I am enjoying my coffee, my news is 100% online and displayed on my holographic screen. My information is obviously adapted to my preferences. So great, no more dirty fingers after reading newspapers and recycle bins full of old papers. Each day I have my routine, first I want business highlights then comics followed by sports. This morning, I particularly enjoyed a business article which I simply asked Asimo to forward to my staff. My other key interests are nanotechnology and brain research; I am therefore receiving worldwide news on these topics every day.
After dressing up I eat my breakfast based on my nutritionist recommendations. Asimo tracks my calories intake at breakfast and suggests what to eat for lunch, considering my diet restrictions. I am over weighted by 1.7 kg. By the way, I love the new cereal boxes, my kids favourites’ are the Frosted Flakes. They enjoy the Tiger waving at us in the aisle at the grocery store…thanks to new Thin Electronic Paper technology, the new cereal boxes are now fully animated, no more 2D basic colors cover as they had in 2009…so fun but at the same time quite distracting while doing our groceries. I have to say, we were glad when they passed the new law, stating that boxes are not allowed to talk anymore unless they are at home, it is so much more pleasant to shop since then. (Note: we continue to go to the supermarket for food purchases because we prefer to choose our fruits ourselves).
While the family is having breakfast and the kids are getting ready to leave for school to learn social skills, my son Matt has time for a hockey practice with his teammates. By wearing his immersion full body suit connected to his Wii 3, he logs on to his hockey club practice session; they will do a 20 minutes drill as usual. My daughter Megan realizes that there is one player missing and offers to wear another immersion suit so she can evaluate if she as the ability to join my son’s hockey team herself (she always claim she could make it…). At the end of the practice, Matt manages to score two goals in a simulated reality hockey game. Once practice is done, Matt and his teammates are ready to leave for school, they all receive a message on their PCD (Personal Communicator Device) (the latest generation of the iPhone) with all their practice’s stat, including calories burned, heart rate curve and some highlights, including the two goals of Matt.
Every members of the family leave the house for school or work. The children take an AirBus on the skyway 15 north to reach their 260 km away advance school. Thanks to the new skyway network, the best North American schools are now reachable within minutes for everybody.