IN JUST three decades’ time the human race could survive on drinking water produced by gigantic bio-engineered jellyfish “factories”.
Source: World Government Summit in Dubai revealed some crazy visions for the future
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Zoe Hodgson
IN JUST three decades’ time the human race could survive on drinking water produced by gigantic bio-engineered jellyfish “factories”.
Food could be produced by robotic “auto-farms” housed in disused car garages, and people might live in bio-engineered 3D printer cities which have to be repeatedly “grown” and rebuilt after adverse weather conditions due to climate change.
The post-apocalyptic vision of the future was unveiled at the World Government Summit in Dubai this week, which has seen leaders and speakers from 139 countries gather in the United Arab Emirates.
Using research and cutting edge technology, the region predicts that by 2050 cities will have been destroyed, and the human race will have teetered on the brink of extinction.
In a bid to combat the threat to humanity, Dubai is already researching and working on plans for “bio-desalination plants” which combine the genes of a jellyfish and mangrove roots, one of the best plant desalinators on the planet.
An artist’s impression of one of the huge jellyfish factories. Can you spot the tiny divers?Source:Supplied
And as well as using the oceans to provide drinking water for the global population, the region is also creating 3D printer “city kits”, which use bio-engineering to combat the inevitable destruction of human habitation and solutions to mass farming which it believes will be unacceptable to humanity and no longer possible.
Dr Noah Raford, chief operating officer of the Dubai Future Foundation, says although it may seem far-fetched, the region sees issues of water scarcity, food supply and sea level rises as a very real threat to millions of people.
“We are not preparing these as the end all answer. They are a series of products and services, which would solve the challenges in a way which could become exportable.”
Dubai is already dealing with these issues on a daily basis — almost 90 percent of the water supply is desalinated.
Eighty to 90 per cent of food is also imported due to arid conditions in the region.
Much of the coastal infrastructure is under threat from inundation from sea level rises.
“These three challenges, including water supply and urban infrastructure re-development — they are the core impact that we are experiencing in climate change,” Dr Raford added.
“Water is the riskiest — it’s the thing you can’t fake. You can grow different kinds of food and different types of crops to respond to different types of environments, you can deal with local droughts and monsoons, by importing things from different parts of the world.
“But it is very difficult to put water on a boat and ship it from one place to another.
“Water is the fundamental thing which underlies all of these real risks.”
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