Release date: 2014-12-15
Nowadays, human beings are being afflicted by many diseases that have never been seen before, and this situation will continue in the future. Although it is impossible to predict which pathogens will become a hidden danger in the future, according to the current trend of technology and social development, we can still guess what diseases may occur in the future. This article envisages 10 kinds of diseases that may occur in the future.
Bioterrorism and bio-hacking can lead to a series of unpredictable new problems, such as maliciously spreading bioengineering viruses or invading other people's brains. However, these are not the issues to be discussed in this article. We will only consider the health problems that we are unable to deal with in the context of technological development.
Virtual reality addiction
In the episode of the sci-fi drama Star Trek: The Next Generation, a character is hopelessly obsessed with the virtual experience provided by the holodeck. Considering this person's life in a real life, this is also excusable. In fact, virtual reality technology will show us an environment that is more fascinating and easier to control than real life.
The holographic deck that appeared in the TV series "Star Trek: The Next Generation." Image source: memory-alpha.org
Once fully immersive virtual reality technology is put on the market, it will become increasingly difficult for people to face reality. And virtual reality technology can make us "real" interaction with friends or colleagues thousands of miles away, plus a lot of dazzling new technologies based on virtual reality, which makes virtual reality technology Psychologically or technically, it is more difficult to be separated from life. So the impact of leaving the virtual reality environment will be a common and serious problem. Now, we have a harbinger of virtual reality addiction - Internet addiction and online game addiction. In addition, psychologists have begun to treat Internet addiction patients caused by excessive use of Google Glass.
2. Dissociative reality disorder
This is a collateral problem caused by the previous one - virtual reality has become so real that humans will eventually be unable to distinguish between reality and reality.
People with this kind of disorder will continue to question whether everything in front of us is the real world, or just a subtle replica. (Interestingly, as the line between virtual and reality becomes increasingly blurred, this distinction will become less important.)
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3. Identity anxiety
It may sound absurd, but as time goes by, people will gradually find it hard to know exactly who we are – even what we are.
We are increasingly transferring the brain's cognitive processes to the Internet. Our artificial intelligence assistants will represent us to handle the tedious work we deliver to them—that is, they “agent†our identity. These avatars in the cloud will learn how we behave and do things like us. In the end, whether it is uploaded via software or hardware, we will enter the cyberspace, leading to a potential identity crisis. It is becoming more and more difficult to identify which part of cyberspace is us and which part is the program, especially when a person has multiple identities on the Internet, and some of them are in a completely different environment, and they are perfect. Enriched life. In the end, we will be lost in cyberspace, losing the existence of individuals and creating a pathological confusion about self-identity.
In "Virtual Programs", one of the Matrix animation short films, the heroine and her lover have a contradiction in whether to leave the real world and return to the virtual world created by the mother. Image source: blogspot.com
4. Social integration disorder after freezing
Imagine that after hundreds or even thousands of years, you wake up from the frozen state and have to try to integrate into what kind of society the ghost knows.
Depending on how you end your hibernation, you may find yourself turning into an electronic person who has never been to the world before; no, you may find that you have no physical entity and become a virtual person in a supercomputer simulation environment.
Either way, it will never be a pleasant experience. You don't know anyone, you can't figure out what super powers you have, and you don't have a clue about your new society, new technology, and new culture. Most importantly, you may not like this new life at all, which is also a kind of "future shock" (analogous to cultural shock). In order to help you adapt to your new life, your savior will probably upload all the information you need to know directly to your head, or you may be sent to a “reintegration†mutual aid group.
5. Mechanical graft sepsis
At present, we do not know what effect the mechanical graft will have on the human body after implantation in the human body.
Some grafts may cause severe allergies or immune reactions, and depending on the method of implantation, different complications such as infection, inflammation, and pain may occur between the inhibitor and the surrounding tissue. These symptoms may also interfere with normal body function or cause rejection. In addition, these grafts may also rot or degrade, producing fatal poisoning reactions and multiple infections.
6. Nanotoxic shock
Nanotechnology has the potential to subvert the human living environment from all sides – whether the outcome is good or bad. At the moment, scientists are worried that nanomaterials and equipment will have an impact on the environment. There is also much debate about the extent to which industrial and commercial applications of nanomaterials can affect biological and environmental conditions.
Since the materials involved in this technology are all molecular-scale, it is conceivable that these small particles will bioaccumulate in the environment. Ultimately, humans are exposed to these nano-contaminants and have a variety of serious health problems, including cellular and DNA damage.
It is also worth mentioning that some nano-devices specially designed to enter the human body may also cause serious problems. For example, poorly designed nano-robots may put drugs into the wrong area, or in a strange way in the human body. destroy. And once they get out of control, they can cause damage to human organs; or they will start to self-replicate and eventually trigger a Grey Goo disaster in the human body. Moreover, mechanical implants based on nanotechnology may also cause problems such as allergic reactions mentioned in the previous article.
In the movie "The Day of Earth's Stagnation," there is a scene in which fog and fog destroy the world. Image source: wordpress.com
(Translator's Note: fog, also known as the global ecological engulfment. Von Neumann first proposed the concept of a machine that can replicate itself, then nanotechnology engineer Eric Dreiser created the "ecological engulfment" accordingly The concept, the imaginary self-replicating nano-robot converts all the organic matter it touches into itself, causing the earth to eventually become a gray ball covered by a nano-robot.)
7. Mental disorders caused by super intelligence
We are obsessed with intelligence, so it is very likely that we will use a lot of biotechnology, including genomics, smart drugs and mechanical implants, to strengthen our cognitive ability.
The problem is that our culture has a very narrow definition of intelligence—intelligence is intelligence, or, as the theoretical neurobiologist Mark Changizi says, “the intelligence used to play chess and make brain teasers†. The problem is that extraordinary cognitive abilities can be uncomfortable. The psychological characteristics formed by human beings in the long process of evolution may not be able to cope with such vast intelligence. If you really want to strengthen your brain like this, you are likely to have antisocial behavior and complete mental confusion. These include data apophenia, epilepsy, information overload, anxiety, a sense of presence crisis, arrogance, and disconnection from the world.
8. Robot phobia
In the future, some of us will probably develop irrational and extreme fears about robots. This kind of mental disorder blurs the line between true fear and simple prejudice, especially as robots are more integrated into our society, doing our work – more and more powerful, more and more like humans .
9. Self-stimulating addiction
Sex chips will come true - anytime, anywhere, cool and cool. It sounds very reliable, but most of us don't have the willpower to control the abuse of it.
As early as 2008, scientists discovered that implanted chips can be used to send tiny stimuli to the forehead cortex in the center of pleasure in the rat brain. Then the scientist handed the switch to the rat and found that it was able to live to starve to death. Another woman who is addicted to stimulating her own thalamus proves that self-stimulation can quickly become an inertia. It is conceivable that once the sex chip is popular, it will definitely be published in a future edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).
(Translator's Note: Electrical stimulation of the thalamus, refers to the front part of the thalamus, the central nucleus, hippocampus and other parts, as needed to embed electrodes for electrical stimulation to treat some of the stubborn pain, epilepsy and Parkinson's method. Because the thalamus is also responsible for more The release of peptide-type neurohormones, including a variety of sex- and love-induced gonadotropin-releasing hormones, so this method occasionally triggers love satisfaction and sexual excitement.)
10. Burnout caused by prolonged life expectancy
Once we conquer aging, some people may be bored with unlimited life. But I doubt it, and I think it's more likely that it will come about an emotion of existence itself – exhausted by life itself, and the resulting boredom.
In the TV series "Dr. Mystery", the last human being, who has lived to the end of the world, Cassandra. Image source: neoseeker.com
Super long-lived people will find themselves in such a boring world, day after day, unremarkable. If there is no outside interference, there seems to be no more exciting or novelty. “Life has no passion, life is just alive.†This view is likely to become popular, and this will lead to a broader social health crisis.
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