The World in 2050 🌍 | Episode 106

It is difficult to even know what happened in the past, leave alone predicting the future. But one day, when our brave hosts were asked what the world will look like in 2050, they decided to have some fun.

Welcome to Episode 106 of Everything is Everything, a weekly podcast hosted by Amit Varma and Ajay Shah.

In this episode, Amit and Ajay make 15 predictions about 2050 in full humility, likely to be wrong, but hey, that will give us a mea culpa episode in 2050! Too much fun, this episode is, as they talk about trends and specifics. Watch!

Note: Amit and Ajay have launched their online course LIFE LESSONS. Click here to sign up: https://lifelessons.co.in/

TABLE OF CONTENTS: 
00:00 Packaging
00:13 Intro: ‘The Great Tragedy of My Life’
03:25 Chapter 1: The Future of the Past
15:29 Chapter 2: Setting It Up
17:30 Chapter 3: Our Entertainment Will be Auto-Generated by AI
24:28 Chapter 4: Technology Will Give Us FEELING on Demand
29:35 Chapter 5: We Will Deepen Our Connections With Both Machines and People
40:46 Chapter 6: Relationships Will Be Remapped
48:07 Chapter 7: We Will Have Truly Global Cities
58:34 Chapter 8: Gene Editing Will Be Commonplace
1:02:08 Chapter 9: Energy Will Be Cheaper
1:07:07 Chapter 10: Brain-Machine Interfaces Will Flourish
1:12:27 Chapter 11: There Will Be Mining in the Asteroid Belt
1:14:57 Chapter 12: Warfare Will Be Fully Robotic
1:24:39 Chapter 13: Meat Will Be Grown in Labs
1:30:11 Chapter 14: Transport Will Be Radically More Efficient
1:35:26 Chapter 15: Reproduction Will Happen Inside Machines
1:37:50 Chapter 16: There Will Be Unexpected Demographic Developments
1:44:16 Chapter 17: Climate Change Will Remain a Problem
1:51:26 Chapter 18: Recommendations

OTHER USEFUL RESOURCES:
1. Amit on Twitter: https://twitter.com/amitvarma
2. Ajay on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ajay_shah
3. The Seen and the Unseen -- Amit's audio podcast: https://seenunseen.in/
(Also on all podcast apps. And YouTube, though less than 1% of listens come from here: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSeenAndTheUnseen/videos)
4. Ajay's organisation, XKDR Forum, on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@xkdr
5. In Service of the Republic -- Vijay Kelkar & Ajay Shah: https://amzn.eu/d/hwGILb3
6. The Art of Clear Writing -- Amit's writing course: https://indiauncut.com/clear-writing/
7. The India Uncut Newsletter -- Amit's newsletter at https://indiauncut.substack.com/
8. Life Lessons -- a course taught by Amit Varma & Ajay Shah: https://lifelessons.co.in/
9. The LEAP Blog: https://blog.theleapjournal.org/#gsc.tab=0
10. The Experience Machine — Robert Nozick: https://rintintin.colorado.edu/~vancecd/phil3160/Nozick1.pdf
11. His Dark Materials — Philip Pullman: https://amzn.in/d/ihpbtF9
12. The Moral Animal — Robert Wright: https://amzn.in/d/iS1qjyX
13. The Loneliness of the Indian Woman — Episode 259 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shrayana Bhattacharya): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLBmONDBpCs
14. We Should Celebrate Rising Divorce Rates (2008) — Amit Varma: http://indiauncut.com/we-should-celebrate-rising-divorce-rates/
15. Malini Goyal is the Curious One — Episode 377 of The Seen and the Unseen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23jSZbi0cys
16. Genetic Engineering — Episode 165 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shambhavi Naik): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNrdkPaATUo
17. What Just Happened Between India & Pakistan? — Episode 418 of The Seen and the Unseen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkjJAzAnyXk
18. Sell the Tiger to Save It (2006) — Barun Mitra: http://nytimes.com/2006/08/15/opinion/15mitra.html
19. It is immoral to have children. Here’s why (2017) — Amit Varma: http://indiauncut.com/it-is-immoral-to-have-children-heres-why/
20. False Alarm — Bjorn Lomborg: https://amzn.in/d/ghWoNLA
21. Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren — John Maynard Keynes: http://econ.yale.edu/smith/econ116a/keynes1.pdf
22. Ex Machina — Alex Garland: https://www.hotstar.com/in/movies/ex-machina/1971001887?utm_source=gwa
23. Blade Runner 2049 — Denis Vileneuve: https://tinyurl.com/te8j97d6

We’re running out of character limit, so we won’t link each EIE episode that we mentioned individually. Instead, check out eps 77, 87, 2, 72, 68, 40, 87, 78, 84, 53, 73, 105 and 20 on our home page: https://www.youtube.com/@amitvarma/videos

Produced by Amit Varma
Shot by Vaishnav Vyas & Nomsita MS Haritashya: https://www.instagram.com/vaishnav.vyas/
Edited by Nomsita MS Haritashya: http://www.instagram.com/nomsitaharitashya
Thanks to Gaurav Chintamani for helping with sound: https://www.instagram.com/gaurav_chintamani/
Chapter image by Simahina.