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1. Artificial intelligence: the development of AI decision and the possibility given to AIs to hold properties will lead to the dispossession by humans of any forms of belongings 7 day(s) 2. New futurology will be based on "panoptic" multiple hypothesis sets rather than on unique and isolated predictions on the future 189 day(s) 3. One of the following vocal assistant will be the first computer program to pass the Turing test without any human help. 220 day(s) 4. Singularities: Among these potential major changes which one will occur the first? 220 day(s) 5. New frontiers: when will the first human consciousness make a travel into a non biological substratum (i.e. artificial neural networks, computers, or quantum computers)? 249 day(s) 6. Asteroids: with the increasing detection of asteroids near the earth orbit, it will happen that some fall on the moon and provoke a spectacular view from the earth. 250 day(s) 7. KIC 8462852 will provide the first evidence of an alien life 250 day(s) 8. Signs of alien life will be found by detecting non-random electromagnetic signals 250 day(s) 9. Technological singularity : Stephen Hawking recently evoked the hypothesis that robots could end the humanity. What could we expect if artificial intelligence outperforms human intelligence? 311 day(s) 10. The human (and animal) brain implements quantum computation for that it was shaped through evolutionary processes within a microscopic world where quantum physics applies and is efficient 311 day(s)