Hello!
Here is a topic that maybe hot on our tails in about 50 years, AI.
Okay first for AI to come to life we need full knowlege of the human brain, this includes emotions, thought, institinct and so on. 2nd we need enough computing power to code the complexity of the human brain (we would start small e.g mouse) in a "robot".
Now i will discuss how the second aspect could be plausable in 50 year. We are now developing quantum computers, these computers are at their developing stage. About a few years ago 7 atoms figures at 5x3=15. Now that might not seem much but we are only talking about 7 atoms seen as there are millions of atoms in a mm we are talking about billions of terrabytes of computing. This is only re enforced by Moore's Law.
Moore's Law is long-term trend in the history of computing hardware, in which the number of transistors that can be placed on an integrated circuit has doubled approximately every two years. Rather than being a naturally-occurring "law" that cannot be controlled, however, Moore's Law is effectively a business practice in which the advancement of transistor counts occurs at a fixed rate.
The capabilities of many digital electronic devices are strongly linked to Moore's law: processing speed, memory capacity, sensors and even the number and size of pixels in digital cameras. All of these are improving at exponential rates as well. This has dramatically increased the usefulness of digital electronics in nearly every segment of the world economy.Moore's law precisely describes a driving force of technological and social change in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Now for the 1st acpect that can make this plausable. Neuroscience has already identified many neurons, and the parts of the brain that code for certain aspects of our being. It is only a matter of time before we completely map the Human brain.
Thank you and please discuss