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the study or prediction of future developments on the basis of existing conditions

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The real novelty that deep learning had promised to bring about, the futurologist explains, is that machines have now started to learn.
Several new panoramas are now available for users -- allowing them to look at what futurologists think Moscow and Dubai might look like in 10, 20 and 30 years from now.
Why would I want to go back to Dave?" " "But what about companionship?"pleasure fihas been decades and exist" "I've got a dog." Futurologist Dr Ian Pearson predicts lover robots will start to appear in ordinary homes in the next decade and is another who believes humans may fall in love with their android partners.
According to a "futurologist", the days of cooking, cleaning, tidying up and decorating will all be things of the past by 2050.
IN the year 2025 our homes will have fridges that warn when we are running out of milk and toilets that analyse poo to give diet advice, a futurologist claims.
Futurologist Dr Ian Pearson has predicted we'll all be having sex with robots in the next ten years.
Other confirmed speakers include the director of BBC Future Media Ralph Rivera, blogger Lily Pebbles and radio futurologist James Cridland.
The event, which takes place on 20 October, will see the futurologist share his vision and belief that market- ers need to re-evaluate the way they look at the world in order to 'reboot' their con- sciousness for what's to come.
In this visionary book, that sometimes reads like a great science-fiction novel (with the emphasis on the "science" part), the author, a futurologist and entrepreneur, describes how our cities were shaped from the nineteenth century to the present, and the forces that had affected our ideas of planning and design, from telegraph to cloud computing and beyond.
12 ( ANI ): A futurologist has claimed that contact lenses that may let you control your dreams are being developed by researchers.
Futurologist Dr Ian Pearson, who worked on The Post Office project looking at the possibilities of leisure travel in 2113, thinks trips to Mars and the moon could become commonplace; some 28% of people surveyed want to be first in line for affordable flights if it happens.
Also announced as keynote speakers at the free Welsh Government event are technology futurologist Ian Pearson and Peter Ryan, senior vice president and general manager for HP.
That bold prediction, from noted British futurologist Ian Pearson, sparked Michael Mitnick's new multimedia play Ed, Downloaded, which premieres at Denver Center Theatre Company through Feb.
Vacationing in a climate-changed and AI-driven world will be very different, writes Victoria University futurologist Ian Yeoman in 2050--Tomorrow's Tourism.
"Brin tackles a plethora of cutting-edge concepts--such as the Fermi paradox, the ascent of artificial intelligence, and the evolution of technologically enhanced humanity--with the skill of a visionary futurologist, and while his extended cast of characters is set up to articulate ideas, they come to life as distinct individuals.