New Dreams of New decade

 Many are cursing 2020 to be bad year but let us not forget that there are many manmade disasters waiting for us in coming time, it's us who are damaging environment and causing problems. My vision is about what I wish to see in coming decade, here is list of few things from my point of view:

1. Mass transportation just like escalators: Yes! If we can use constant moving escalators, why can't we make a mode of transportation which is personal and at the same time for mass. Constant moving bubbles/cabins/seats/or anything comfortable keeps moving on a track and people just pick it from their stand. No need for ticket as it can use google maps and based on distance travelled your money can be deducted from your e-wallet. This will decrease congestion, save time and if we use solar and other non conventional energy to run it, it will save huge amount of fossil fuel and help to protect environment. Less vehicles will also bring noise pollution down by significant numbers, less chance of accident, less traffic vigilance is required. 

2. Free and restriction-less education for: While we are crying for no focus on innovation, reduction in ethical practices, running after short term goals. All these are caused by highly expensive education. Either one can not afford it so they just go for whatever they can have and misses big opportunities or some after spending big chunk of money thinks on how they can earn it back by any means. A person from middle class just spends his or her whole life to make sure to earn that much by which their future generation can have enough education so that they can continue this cycle. If education becomes essential means of living one can save that money and can invest in new ventures be it innovation or art.

3. Breakthrough in food supply chain and farming techniques: Weather dependent farming must be modified now, changing weather patterns will only increase our problems to fight starvation, time to develop affordable and easy methods of farming to grow crops without being dependent on weather. This must be supported by efficient supply chains as truck load of food stuck won't serve any purpose if people at other end can't get it.

4. Automobile/aviation engine modification: The way electronics and IT sector has advanced no other sector has advanced at that pace. In engines we are still using century old technology and no change is visible on horizon as of now. This is one of the biggest challenge I am seeing for our future.

5. Energy generation and reliable alternate to fossil fuels: While on one hand mobility has expanded our horizons greatly and directly or indirectly supported many innovations, it has cost us our environment and natural balance. This is high time that we find reliable source of energy to replace fossil fuels. One day it will dry up and we have to forcefully find the alternate, at that time it will create havoc while if we prepare from now there will be no panic in future. Solar, atomic, wind, tidal all been tested yet none of these are able to replace current source of energy. Some serious efforts needed.

6. Lab on moon: Since childhood we have read storied about future human colonies on mars or moon. Some claims been made to achieve this by 2020, well this is still far from reality and part of science fiction only. We are constantly growing and to rely on one planet for survival of our race would be foolish, better to find a way to increase our footprint and make plans for longer survival. Viruses, threat of asteroids, blast of supernova near to us can make us extinct so our focus must be on expanding our presence beyond earth and may be target should be to go beyond solar system before this century ends.

7. Health, Hygiene and Water: Nothing more to write about it, just feel that each living being on this planet has right to have these things. 

8. Branched offices and work from home: As the current pandemic has made many of us to follow work from home, I think it's time to make it a normal practice for many jobs. For those jobs which needs small teams to work together there can be localized small offices rather than giant campus. This will reduce transportation, land space requirements and managing hygiene and maintenance. In metros and super metros it's too difficult to travel to offices and people are losing their precious time in travelling too and fro. If such system being adopted it can reduce traffic in a significant way.

9. Infrastructure revolution: Majority of the world is still following century old construction techniques which are costly, time consuming and bad for environment. Affordable, long lasting and sustainable way of construction is what we need right now. We should look back in past and learn from ancient civilizations which made monuments which survived hundreds of years and are still strong and steady. We can't just put more and more concrete on the surface and made it barren, we should follow the past in this case.

 10. Change in point of view: If we want to survive as race than in this decade we must start the process of identify all humans as earthen intelligent race and must look beyond from silly disputed and prevent such events. If we want to expand ourselves beyond solar system by the end of this century then we must think about common protocol and work together. If it becomes race among nations just like we have seen for Moon and Mard landings then there's nothing to gain. I hope this decade provide much needed maturity to so called global powers and they should learn to work with other nations to build a global alliance with common goal. 

 These are the points which I think are important for this decade and may change the world from what we know today. I am sure there will be many pleasant surprises for us and we will see more and more progress and more sensible version of humanity in times to come!