"Transport will be very different. I don't buy the cartoon concepts of the Jetson’s with flying cars and things like that. I know there will be certain city-based flying via individual Uber type helicopters, perhaps a drone, but they'll never be dominant.
Importantly, all ground and sea transport will be zero emissions. We transport a lot of people and goods around the planet so eliminating the emissions in the transport sector is important for our low carbon future.
So, what will the thinking be about mass transit? No one will put their foot on an accelerator or hold the steering wheel probably ever again after about 2050.
But much more significant than this will be the relationship with the digital technology as it will be increasingly serving society, and like all servants, must be well treated so that it doesn't rise and rebel against us.
Not that I think the digital technology really will rise and rebel, but we need to think about an equitable balance with machines that will leave us with the dignity that helps deliver what we want in life.
Soon we will be being assisted by something (i.e., AI enabled systems) that is so much more profoundly more capable than humans in terms of almost anything, these are difficult challenges and I have no idea how they will evolve.
I am confident that as we have been used to saying, humankind will solve the problems as we go; I personally do want this to happen. I'm not a doomsday person, but the transformation that AI will drive is essentially just too big to imagine.”