The future of healthcare will finally see an end to all permanent and preventable physical injuries and mental disorders.

It sounds crazy today given the current state of our healthcare system. It's bureaucratic. It's under-resourced. It's reactive. It struggles to employ the latest technology. And it does a poor job of fully understanding the patient's needs.

Unlike what many prefer to believe, human evolution hasn’t ended. In fact, it’s speeding up. And by the end of this century, we may see new forms of humans walking around that may look entirely alien to us. And a large part of that process has to do with our current and future perception of human physical beauty.

For millennia, prospective parents have done everything in their power to give birth to healthy, strong, and beautiful sons and daughters. Some take this duty more seriously than others.

We’re all on a lifelong journey to improve ourselves, spiritually, mentally and physically. Unfortunately, the ‘lifelong’ part of that statement can sound like an awfully long process for many, especially for those born into rough circumstances or with a mental or physical disability. 

However, through using the developing biotech advances that will become mainstream over the next few decades, it will become possible to quickly and fundamentally remake yourself.

From changing beauty norms to designer babies to superhuman cyborgs, this final chapter in our Future of Human Evolution series will discuss how human evolution could potentially end. Get your bowl of popcorn ready.

The year is 2021. You’re driving down the highway on your daily commute. You approach a car that’s stubbornly driving at the max speed limit. You decide to pass this overly law-abiding driver, except when you do, you discover there’s no one in the front seat.

Self-driving cars aren’t the only way we’ll be getting around in the future. There will also be revolutions in public mass transportation on land, over the seas, and above the clouds.

But unlike what you’ve read over the last two installments of our Future of Transportation series, the advancements we’ll see in the following alternative modes of transportation aren’t all centered around autonomous vehicle (AV) technology. To explore this idea, let’s start with a form of transportation city dwellers are all too familiar with: public transit.

By law, the duty of every corporation is to make as much money as possible for its shareholders, even if to the detriment of its employees.

That’s why, while self-driving vehicle technology may see a slow adoption among the public—due to its high starting price tag and to cultural fears against it—when it comes to big business, this tech is primed to explode.

Millions of jobs will disappear. Hundreds of small towns will be abandoned. And governments worldwide will struggle to provide for a new and sizeable population of permanently unemployed citizens. No, I’m not talking about outsourcing jobs to China—I’m talking about a game-changing and disruptive new technology: autonomous vehicles (AVs).

Your car—its impact on the world you live in will be far greater than you’d expect.