How does the future look like?

When we think about the future, what do we think of?

Some would arguably say the future looks like one (or several) Black Mirror episodes. Others claim the future is already here.

In 2020, NASA will send a life-seeking mission to Mars — and Artificial Intelligence will be guiding the way. At NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, scientists are developing a fleet of autonomous robots to travel 33 million miles in search of life on one of Earth’s closest neighboring planets.

The mission’s ultimate goal is to one day establish a colony in which humans can survive in Mars’s 96% carbon dioxide atmosphere. And we’ve been promised that we’ll be driving cars on Mars in less than 10 years. The future seems incredibly promising.

Sarah Hill, CEO and Chief Storyteller of Healium, an AR/VR platform told Inc.com: 

'With the rise of spatial computing environments like virtual, mixed, and augmented realities and the rise of 5G enabling more real-time capture of biometric data from your wearables, we’re about to see a shift in how people use their biometric data. No longer are people just tracking their data on a flat dashboard sequestered to their wrists, they’re interacting with it (...) by using their heart rate and brain waves as inputs to control spatial computing environments and other content.'

Sarah concluded:

'Users aren’t just watching stories. They’re feeling them. For decades, people thought of meditation as a closed-eyed experience that you practiced with an earbud with your eyes closed. But with virtual and augmented reality, meditation is now an eyes-open experience that you don’t just passively watch, you can actually feel these spatial environments with the data collected from your smartwatch or brain-sensing headband. These new kinds of meditation are harnessing the power of your body’s electricity via your wearables to allow the user to feel content in ways that have never been done before.'

We find Sarah’s predictions to be exciting, especially when thinking about all the doors and the fields where AR and VR could completely change our experience and interaction with the real world.

Our vision is based on the promise of a better tomorrow, simplified through advancements in technology and problem-solving. We believe that experiences should be simplified and made available to as many people as possible, allowing for better education through access to information, better wellbeing, and transport as well as increased focus on mental health.

This vision implies that once we walk through this particular door of progress and innovation, there’s a good chance we won’t be able to come back. The world as we know it is constantly changing and it will keep on changing in so many ways that the previous generations of humans wouldn’t recognize us; or the world around us for that matter.

When we discuss the future, however, we have to take a glance at what our history is. 

What started a few years ago as a vision by a few close friends, turned into an ever-growing team of brilliant individuals, carrying out a mission of vision and innovation. The need to simplify people’s daily activities gave birth to a delivery service. After that, the vision of a better life expanded into a tech company that’s ready to take on the future, along with the challenges along the way.

Even though time passes by, the Linnifian vision of the future remains the same: simplifying life through innovation. Although the world can’t precisely tell how it will change in the near or far future, we’re excited, hopeful, and ready for a better future, built by all of us, for everyone.

When powered by innovation, vision always finds a way.