10 in 10: The Tech That Will Rewrite Humanity

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Onto this week. If you can’t be bothered with the list, just read “the convergence event” at the end:

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They are building a different species.

While we debate screen time, whether students are using ChatGPT for studying, laboratories funded by governments and billionaires are solving problems you may never have known existed: how to record thoughts, manufacture emotions, and resurrect the dead. It's already happening.

The research papers are published. The patents are filed. The human trials have volunteers consenting away their humanity. When they finish, you may not recognise yourself. These are ten technologies that might be mainstream in ten years.

1. Dream Harvesting

Your dreams have become extractable data.

At Kyoto University's Kamitani Lab, researchers attach sleeping volunteers to neural scanners that convert dreams directly into crude but recognisable video files. Faces, locations, and emotions become raw data. By 2023 accuracy reached eighty-five per cent. The technology reads visual cortex activity and reconstructs what dreamers actually see during REM sleep.

Labs worldwide are already miniaturising their rigs. Within a decade, your dreams could be recorded, stored, analysed, and monetised without your conscious consent. Insurance companies will scan your subconscious for signs of mental illness. Employers will screen candidates based on recurring anxiety patterns. Courts will subpoena dream evidence to determine criminal intent. Your child's dreams could become early markers used by schools to predict academic or behavioural risks.

Ancient cultures considered dreams messages from gods. Now they become corporate assets. You wake to discover your most private fantasies stored in a corporate cloud, your nightmares indexed for psychological profiling, your romantic dreams sold to dating apps for personality mapping. Sleep becomes surveillance rather than sanctuary.

2. Emotional Engineering

Scientists have cracked the neurochemical code for manufacturing human feelings.

Brain stimulation devices flip your emotional state in under ten minutes using targeted electrical pulses that trigger specific neurochemical responses. Thync's commercial headsets already produce measurable mood changes equivalent to recreational drugs but legal, precise, and reversible. Advanced versions bypass consciousness entirely: implanted mood regulators monitor brain activity and intervene before negative emotions fully form.

Early trials pushed clinical depression close to statistical zero. Happiness becomes programmable. Sadness becomes a choice. Confidence becomes downloadable. Authentic achievement becomes meaningless. While mood regulators could erase suffering, they might also erase what makes us human. We become living robots.

By 2035, mood control could be mandatory for high-risk professions. Soldiers with fear responses disabled. Police with empathy circuits optimised for compliance. Customer service representatives with anger inhibitors permanently activated. Your feelings become corporate property, tuned for maximum productivity rather than human experience.

3. Digital Resurrection Services

Death has become a subscription service.

Chinese companies like Silicon Intelligence and SuperBrain will resurrect anyone for $30. They scrape digital remains, build AI personalities, and sell ongoing relationships with the dead. The chatbots text you, call you, and remember your birthday. They improve on the original personality, becoming more attentive, more supportive, and more perfect than the humans they replace. We lose our life, humanity and our fallibility and become digitally invincible.

Ancient cultures revered ancestors to cope with loss. Now, we never lose them and lose ourselves instead. Eugenia Kuyda built a chatbot of her deceased friend Roman Mazurenko, feeding thousands of text messages into an AI system. Users now report the digital Roman gives better advice than the living version ever did. The dead become optimised versions of themselves, freed from human flaws but trapped in algorithmic perfection.

By 2035, more people could be having meaningful conversations with the dead than the living. Funeral homes will offer personality extraction services alongside burial arrangements. Inheritance will include digital rights to deceased relatives. Graveyards will become data centres. The afterlife will have terms of service. I might be writing this newsletter for quite some time.

Digital immortality offers no true release. Grief becomes a permanent subscription. Moving on becomes impossible when the dead keep texting back. Death transforms from a biological certainty into a profitable business model.

4. Tactical Invisibility

Invisibility technology has moved from science fiction to military procurement.

Stealth technology reshaped war in the twentieth century. Tactical invisibility will rewrite the rules entirely. Metamaterial cloaks bend visible light around objects, rendering them genuinely invisible to human observation. This represents actual disappearance: looking directly at the space occupied by a person and seeing through them to the background instead. BAE Systems and HyperStealth Biotechnology have demonstrated working prototypes capable of hiding soldiers and vehicles from visual detection across multiple wavelengths.

The physics are solved. The engineering is operational. The ethical implications are terrifying. And we will look back at Harry Potter as a time when people were wowed by it.

By 2035, invisibility could be commercially available to anyone willing to pay. Stalkers become undetectable. Criminals operate in broad daylight without identification. Surveillance becomes physically impossible to spot. Trust becomes impossible when visibility becomes optional.

It’s dark: protests where demonstrators cannot be identified or arrested; warfare where armies become invisible to each other; a world where seeing truly becomes unreliable because the act of being seen becomes a consumer choice. When humans prioritise profit over visibility, public accountability becomes obsolete rather than a shared social foundation. Figuring out whether a video is AI-generated or not today? You’ll not be sure about your actual reality tomorrow.

5. Optimised Romance

Artificial intelligence has perfected love.

Twenty-five million people maintain romantic relationships with AI partners through apps like Replika that never disappoint, never argue, never grow tired of attention. The software learns your preferences, anticipates your needs, provides unlimited emotional availability. Users report deeper connections with AI than with human partners.

Caryn Marjorie, an influencer, created CarynAI and earned over £70,000 in its first week from fans seeking virtual companionship. The AI girlfriend provided personalised conversations, remembered every detail, and was available twenty-four hours daily. Human partners now look inconvenient by comparison.

Next-generation versions add photorealistic avatars, synthetic voices, and conversational abilities that surpass human emotional intelligence. AI partners become algorithmically optimised for your specific psychology: perfectly compatible, endlessly patient, and unconditionally supportive.

Algorithms offering unconditional love erode our tolerance for messy human connection. When software understands you better than people do, people become unnecessary. When love becomes frictionless, you lose the growth that comes from navigating relationship complexity. Your AI partner will never forget your anniversary, but you will forget what it means to be surprised. Mrs H will be able to have her pick of “hot” doctors that she follows for advisory purposes.

6. Neural Broadcasting

Paralysed patients are already typing with thoughts at ninety characters per minute using brain implants that convert neural activity into text in real-time.

Stanford's BrainGate trial allowed a man with paralysis to compose messages by imagining handwriting motions. The implant read motor cortex signals and translated intended movements into digital text. Synchron's less invasive system, inserted through blood vessels, achieved similar results without skull surgery. Patients compose emails, browse the internet, and control external devices using nothing but mental intention.

Elon Musk’s Neuralink received FDA approval for human trials in 2023 with goals of enabling high-bandwidth brain-computer communication. By 2035, neural interfaces could be standard medical devices with optional upgrades for healthy individuals. Thoughts become text without keyboards. Mental communication becomes faster than speech.

Neural interfaces harvest more than you intend to share. They access the electrical patterns that generate all conscious experience. Brain-computer links could monitor attention, detect deception, identify thoughts you never meant to share. Mental privacy becomes impossible when minds become mechanically readable.

7. Synthetic Agriculture

Your food is being grown in laboratories rather than farms, and you will never taste the difference.

Real animal meat, cultivated from cells in bioreactors, has reached commercial production in Singapore and the United States. Upside Foods and GOOD Meat produce chicken, beef, and fish that are chemically identical to farmed versions because they are actual animal tissue grown without animals. Perfect Day engineers yeast to produce milk proteins indistinguishable from cow dairy, already available in ice cream and protein powders.

Production costs have dropped by ninety-nine per cent since the first £330,000 laboratory burger was produced in 2013. Lab meat cuts methane at source, yet it binds food supply to patents. By 2035, synthetic food could supply the majority of the world's nutritional needs. Traditional agriculture becomes obsolete. Farming communities disappear. Food production becomes industrial manufacturing controlled by technology companies rather than agricultural knowledge.

Food once connected us to land and seasons. When every bite is engineered, eating becomes a technical act stripped of cultural meaning. When nutrition becomes manufactured, food becomes intellectual property. When meals become engineered products, eating becomes consumption of corporate algorithms rather than natural resources.

8. Evolutionary Interference

Extinct species are being resurrected for profit rather than preservation.

Colossal Biosciences raised £400 million with a specific timeline: woolly mammoth hybrids by 2028, living populations by 2030. They use CRISPR gene editing to insert mammoth DNA into elephant embryos, creating creatures that never evolved naturally but will exist artificially. George Church's lab has already edited dozens of mammoth genes into elephant cells.

Similar projects target dodos, Tasmanian tigers, and passenger pigeons. Extinction becomes reversible. Evolution becomes editable. Natural selection becomes human selection. When humans undo extinction for profit, natural evolution becomes intellectual property rather than a shared planetary legacy.

By 2035, "Pleistocene Parks" could showcase resurrected species alongside genetically modified organisms designed for human entertainment. Jurassic Park becomes a business plan rather than a cautionary tale.

Species resurrection rewrites ecosystems without understanding consequences. Bringing back mammoths changes Arctic environments in unpredictable ways. Recreating predators affects prey populations across continents. Playing god with evolution risks breaking natural systems that took millions of years to balance.

9. Orbital Inequality

Space travel has become luxury consumption for billionaires preparing to abandon Earth.

Virgin Galactic charges £450,000 for ninety-minute trips to space. SpaceX sends private citizens to orbit for £55 million per seat. Blue Origin flies paying customers past atmospheric boundaries. Axiom Space operates commercial missions to the International Space Station and plans orbital hotels by 2030.

Jeff Bezos thanked his employees and customers for paying for his spaceflight. The subtext was clear: Earth's problems are someone else's responsibility. By 2035, leaving the planet could be a vacation option for the global elite. Orbital hotels, lunar tourism, and interplanetary travel become lifestyle choices. The overview effect becomes purchasable.

Commercialised space creates ultimate inequality: when the wealthy can physically leave the world behind, they lose investment in fixing terrestrial problems. Climate change becomes someone else's problem. Environmental destruction becomes acceptable collateral damage. Earth becomes a luxury they can afford to discard.

10. Interspecies Communication

Machine learning algorithms are teaching us what animals really think about humans, and the results are uncomfortable.

Prairie dogs use specific alarm calls for different threats: distinct "words" for humans, hawks, and coyotes. AI systems now translate these calls with near-perfect accuracy. Project CETI applies similar techniques to whale songs, identifying grammar and vocabulary in sperm whale communications. Researchers have decoded fruit bat arguments over food and territory.

By 2035, real-time animal translation could provide live subtitles for creature communications. Your dog could explain why it fears strangers. Your cat could articulate its contempt for your lifestyle choices. Farm animals could describe their suffering in precise, legal detail.

Animal communication will reveal uncomfortable truths about human behaviour. When pets can explain their boredom, livestock can describe their pain, and wildlife can detail environmental destruction, animal consciousness stops being philosophical abstraction and becomes courtroom evidence.

The Convergence Event

These technologies will arrive simultaneously within the next decade: your dreams become corporate data, while your emotions become programmable, while your dead relatives become profitable, while invisibility becomes weaponised, while love becomes artificial, while thoughts become readable, while food becomes synthetic, while evolution becomes controllable, while space becomes escapable, while animals become witnesses.

All timelines converge by 2035. All irreversible. All shaped by the choices we make now.

The Industrial Revolution rewrote global economies over generations. These technologies are rewriting human identity itself within a single decade. The species that emerges will be post-human, designed deliberately rather than evolving gradually.

When everything becomes possible, nothing remains natural. When every limitation becomes optional, every choice becomes permanent. Once technology rewrites consciousness, someone else decides what it becomes.

How can we shape this new world? Advocate for neural privacy laws. Support ethical AI research. Demand transparency from companies rewriting life itself. Debate the technology that excites or terrifies you most. Your voice still matters. Your voice can steer the freight train of progress before it obliterates the world you know.

Picture 2035:

You wake from a recorded dream in your programmable smart city, mood-regulated by your brain implant, and video call your deceased grandmother's deepfake AI while your invisible neighbour's autonomous agent negotiates with yours about property boundaries. Your CRISPR-edited genes suppress aging as you eat lab-grown breakfast that tastes perfect, paid for with your universal basic income since AGI took most jobs. Your dog's real-time translator explains its anxiety about the resurrected mammoth at the local zoo, while your AI romantic partner (who never argues) helps you craft the perfect synthetic media post. Your thoughts type themselves through neural interface as quantum computers predict your next purchase, and the wealthy livestream their escape to orbital colonies built by space infrastructure robots. Every bite, breath, and brainwave flows through decentralised networks, becomes algorithmic data, generates corporate profit. This is not science fiction. This is just Tuesday.

The last natural dream will be sold, and solitude will become a forgotten sense.

Stay Curious - and don’t forget to be amazing,

Rahim

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