Produced by http://www.thefutureindex.com for the 2013 CASE Europe Annual Conference in Manchester, Future Vision 2020 is a 7 minute look at the trends and innovations shaping the future world. From hover trains to hologram TV, from the rise of China to population explosion in Africa, and from global energy shortages to crowd sourcing challenges to find planet-saving answers. Everything you see is being planned, prototyped, developed or already in operation. Music is 'Space Shanty' by Leftfield. All images are sourced from online news trawls and a list of all images & links is available at http://bit.ly/17urgc5 For all the latest trends & future inspiration in the higher education world check our link packed summaries at http://www.thefutureindex.com/extra/ A special mention for 'Thought for Food' (providing 3 of the images) - an inspiring example of a next generation student-led challenge to feed the world in 2020 and beyond. Find and support them at http://www.tffchallenge.com

Comments

1. commentary goes a long way...
2. I don't like the idea of robots working for us!
3. We got some robots
4. for me its not gonna happen
5. The real questio is not IF, but when this will happen. Because in 80's, a smartphone was not possible and crazy idea :-) What now ?
6. c mon people!!! Dont tell me that you ALL are going to be stupid enough to believe this advanced lie l.i.e is going to happen 4 YEARS FROM NOW! its a scam A TRICK!
7. Amish would not exist anymore....heh
8. This is why world end's fast.
9. there were subliminal messages in that video,Waterwars hmmmm.....Fuck you nestle
10. I get supper excited for this upcoming tech, but than I remember; we are the species that developed spaceflight and landed on our own moon before we realized we could put wheels on luggage.
11. As cool as all of this seems, it will be the cause of the world's end. No one realizes half of the problems that even today's technology has created. 20+ years ago, people actually had respect for others and the world was a decent place and now we have kids in middle school smoking cigarettes and getting into drugs with high levels of disrespect for their own parents and the internet/modern technology is a large portion of the problem. While technology can be a great thing, it's often taken for granted and used for the wrong purposes.
    The earth and all it's people won't be around for much longer. We'll be lucky to have the earth for another hundred years.
12. OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG GAWWWWD! WOOOOOOT!
13. Hover cars wont be or at least shouldn't be for the general public because it would be dangerous to have everyone flying around and possibly crashing into houses or buildings. Hover cars would be good for taxis flown by licensed pilots.
14. Wireless power is not new tech. It was pioneered by Tesla. He was just beat out with money that Edison was backed with
15. force fields and tactical cloaking? definitely not in the next 7 years, that will take a while longer for sure. the space flight is also struggling and 7 years isn't nearly enough time. other than that, for the most part all of the other technologies, if not already partially here , are definitely going to be here within 7 years reasonably.
16. the most essential things are even beyond these... where will these things lead us to?
17. I doubt alot of this will probably be a thing by 2020 execpt somethings but maybe all of it will exist by 2040 or 2050
18. This is very amazing. In the future we'll all have less problems. I'm excited to see this stuff happen.
19. A lot of narrow minded people, the key is to open your mind anything is possible you have not seen nothing yet, technology is one thing it will go on as long as we survive as a species, have you even given a thought to the other side of the coin spirituality and consciousness, there is much to be learnt and study from this what does it mean to be human and a higher level of connection through the mind to nature and universe, there is a lot of stuff we dont know were still a primitive species we have yet to find balance on our planet and yet to end war and truly be a global nation. give it some thought.  
20. FLYING CARS WILL NEVER BE POSSIBLE