A report by "Dubai for the Future" highlights the most prominent transformations, challenges and global trends
50 global opportunities during the coming decades that will make leaps for humanity
Employing new therapeutic methods to produce on-demand medicines.
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Muhammad Al Gergawi: “The human imagination has no limits to its creativity and innovations that achieve unexpected leaps in the process of human development.”
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The Dubai Future Foundation launched the report "Dubai Future Opportunities: 50 Global Opportunities", which aims to shed light on the most promising opportunities in various vital and future sectors during the next 50 years, and introduce decision-makers in the government and private sectors, thought leaders, innovators, researchers, entrepreneurs and the public, in the UAE. The UAE and around the world, to the most prominent major trends that we will witness in the future, within a broad panoramic vision that extrapolates global trends to help decision-makers develop strategies and plans for designing the future, and to contribute to launching a global dialogue to identify positive transformations and build on them to serve humanity and build a better future for peoples the scientist.
The report addresses 50 global opportunities categorized into five main axes, including nature and sustainability, empowering societies, health, the human relationship with technology, and future innovations, while monitoring the most prominent developments and expectations within each axis and their impacts on the future of humanity, in addition to proposing future visions to address the most important global challenges. Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees and Managing Director of the Dubai Future Foundation, Muhammad Abdullah Al Gergawi, said that “the next 50 years will witness more changes than the scientific, economic and social achievement of mankind since the dawn of history,” noting: “These transformations will transcend continents, peoples and societies, and no one will be immune from them.” And everyone will live its results, so that it touches us to the core, and interferes with our work, our daily lifestyle, our lives, our decisions, and our relationships,” stressing that “the future is not a time we wait for, but a reality that we create. ».
Al Gergawi added: "History teaches us that the human imagination has no limits to its creativity and innovations that achieve unexpected leaps in the process of human development."
He explained: "Governments, institutions, companies and scientists will have a participatory and complementary role in transforming future opportunities into reality."
nature and sustainability
The report reviews 50 global opportunities, categorized into five main themes, including nature and sustainability, empowering communities, health, the human relationship with technology, and future innovations.
The nature restoration axis includes seven opportunities that focus on employing the development of technology and biomaterials to reduce the volume of plastic waste, storing harmful gases in depleted onshore and offshore oil and gas fields, modifying types of materials, trees and plants to contribute to achieving zero carbon emissions, and greening desert areas to increase habitable areas. Protecting the oceans, their ecosystems and fisheries, and relying on renewable and sustainable energy sources that are safe, cheap and low in emissions.
Empowering communities constitutes the second axis in the report, as it includes 11 global opportunities, including the government’s role in developing legislation, meeting the requirements of individuals and meeting their needs, ensuring the safety and privacy of personal data, launching a global charter that defines principles related to the applications of genetic engineering and genomics, and setting a framework that defines the rights of robots in integration. With human rights, providing electric power to all societies and reducing its cost, and helping countries to confront the effects of climate change.
These opportunities also include employing modern technology in the development of the education process, and developing a common educational system that is applied throughout the world to teach the future skills of hundreds of millions of students in a consistent manner, as well as enhancing the ability of humans to live in complete independence, and enhancing the levels of people’s happiness by adopting technologies and tools Anticipating needs and aspirations, identifying talent and helping them to innovate and access appropriate opportunities.
The theme of renewing the concept of health focuses on seven major global opportunities: employing technologies to identify mental and psychological health problems, treating anxiety and relieving feelings of loneliness, using non-surgical monitoring techniques in new treatment methods to produce medicines on demand, making treatment at home and more personalized, and strengthening exchange mechanisms Data to increase the efficiency of health care and research of rare diseases and epidemics globally, the use of wearable devices to collect data from individuals and sites and assess levels of general mental health, and the development of new materials to transform everyday surfaces that cause transmission of infections into tools that help prevent other diseases, as well as enhance cognitive abilities humankind, improve memory and creative functions, and accelerate the application of nanoscience in the development of traditional treatment methods.
The systems improvement axis includes 13 main opportunities that focus on providing the possibility of connecting to the virtual world for everyone without the need for devices, and moving to the concept of comprehensive and rapid manufacturing to quickly design, test and produce prototypes and launch them directly in the market, and accelerate international shipping by relying on marine tunnels, and employing machines And smart technologies in managing projects and companies to enhance governance and decision-making mechanisms, and moving towards decentralized regulatory bodies characterized by flexibility, speed and forward-looking vision.
The last axis includes many global opportunities associated with innovation in the use of new technologies to prevent food waste by keeping foods fresh for a longer period without the need for self-regulating temperature during shipment, relying on biological materials instead of products and chemicals, and developing food production systems according to need. anywhere in the world without relying on the availability of land, light, energy and water, the provision of sustainable water resources, and the development of global standards for the full cost and real value of all economic activities and their social and environmental impacts.
10 Big Trends
The report, “Dubai’s Future Opportunities: 50 Global Opportunities” monitors 10 major trends that will constitute major stations in the future of global societies and economies, and will revolutionize our way of life, including the tremendous development in the sciences of biological and synthetic materials, the decrease in the cost of data and the focus on the quality of its analysis, and the increasing security gaps In systems and infrastructure, the development of electric energy generation and storage technologies, increased investment in environmental management, the need to develop legislation and mechanisms for international dispute settlement, the growth of virtual and digital world applications, the spread of the use of autonomous robots, and the need to redefine human goals in light of the spread of artificial intelligence and advanced technology. and developing innovative health and agricultural technologies.
• 5 main themes in the report include nature and sustainability, empowering communities, redesigning the health sector, the human relationship with technology, and future innovations.
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