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[New] The North American Meat Institute will soon launch its sustainability initiative focused on driving continuous improvement toward environmental, animal welfare, food safety, labor and human rights, and health and wellness goals over the next decade.
[New] 65% of Americans expect that within 50 years robots and computers will definitely or probably do much of the work currently done by humans, but 80% of respondents thought their own jobs would be exceptions.
[New] If the UK is to meet its target of net zero emissions by 2050, then human behaviours will have to change at both an individual and organisational level.
[New] The population on Earth grows by over 200,000 people per day or 80 million per year, and the UN estimates that it will peak at 10.9 billion people by the end of the century.
[New] Human being could obtain new way of travel, that be picked up at appointed place by ADV in level 5.
Without a fundamental change in direction, climate change will be irreversible, inflicting disastrous effects on the planet and humanity well before the Convention reaches its 60th anniversary.
The London Metal Exchange (LME) will postpone plans to ban metal tainted by human rights abuses until 2025, giving producers three more years to comply with guidelines and the exchange time to rethink its approach.
The Chinese government's commitment to regulatory reform has improved access to medicines but also opens new opportunities for first-in-human and first-in-class innovative medicines to reach Chinese patients faster.
The global action made during the next 10 years will impact the future of humanity for the next 10000 years.
Data Scientists from Google assume that only in the next year (2020) robots will manage to imitate complicated human behaviour and emotions like flirting or making fun of somebody.
Japanese respondents were more confident in AVs than the global average; 83% believe self-driving cars will be better drivers than humans by 2029, and 38% believe they already are.
With tremendous growth expected in the industry - the global medical robotics market is expected to reach $20 billion by 2023 - there' s no doubt that robots used in healthcare will continue to conduct more varied tasks.
By 2050, people over age 65 will number over 1.6 billion, accounting for 20 percent of the global population - more than double the number today.
By 2025, 40 per cent of enterprises will shift from designing for humans to architecting humans themselves by adopting human augmentation technologies and methodologies.
The next 50 years is going to be great for a percentage of humans smaller than the percentage of humans for whom things will probably get worse.
As deep learning algorithms provide expert assistance and supports humans in extending their capacities, the deep learning market is expected to pick up pace with innovations in technology.
A 1.5 ˚ C world would have significantly lower climate-related risks for natural and human systems than a 2 ˚ C world, and that global CO 2 emissions would need to reach net zero around 2050 in order to have no or limited overshoot beyond 1.5 ˚ C of climate change.
Last year the UN rapporteur on extreme The postwar British welfare state is disappearing behind a webpage and an algorithm and that the impact on the human rights of the most vulnerable would be immense.
71 percent of global respondents believe autonomous cars are better at driving than humans or will surpass human abilities within 10 years, with 77 percent saying they'd be comfortable riding in an autonomous car at some point during their lifetime.
In the greatest transfer from labor to capital the banking industry has ever seen, U.S. banks will cut more than 200,000 jobs in the next decade as robots and other technology reduce the need for human workers.
Translating the human imagination to actuality has taken a far shorter time - today, 77% of devices utilize AI, 97% of mobile users have AI-powered voice assistants, and the global AI market will touch $60 billion by 2025, up from $1.4 billion in 2016!
The use cases that will see the fastest spending growth from 2018 to 2023 are automated human resources and pharmaceutical research and development.
Negative outcomes that could make adaptation critical in coming years include higher temperatures, more intense storms, melting glaciers, rising sea levels, shifting agricultural patterns, pressure on food and water and new threats to human health.

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Last updated: 08 December 2019