The world population keeps growing, cities are becoming bigger. Right now we are living in the era of the information age; we are surrounded by thousands of devices, tons of people require more personalized services and devices at lower prices. The only way to catch up with these is through technology. In just a few years, driving a car would become a sport rather than using it as transportation. Companies would be able to provide their customers personalized products, that can really fit their needs at a low cost. These and many other innovations are about to come thank to the M2M communication, big data and the wide range of products that have been creating as a result of these technologies. The new devices offer us an incredible amount of new opportunities and possibilities beyond our imagination.
I can imagine a near future being able tell my car by using my voice of where I want to go. By using GPS technology and internet to receive information of the information of the traffic report, analyzing the conditions of possible routes and checking shortcuts, or taking into account the fact that I need to fill the tank; the computer inside the car, after reading and calculating all these variables, it is going to come up with the best solution for you. During this process the system will interact with a lot of sources and it's going to be connected with many sensors and networks.
Now we can consider some other factors that can make this technological innovation a little bit more surreal as it has been taken out from a science fiction movie. A car is connected with his owner's Smartphone, detecting that many other people are planning to take the same road the system was planning to take. In order to get to the important interview on time, the system will be using posts in social networks such as twitter and foursquare; or through the communication among the same kind devices from other people's vehicle, in a gigantically interconnected system so that the alarm clock is going to ring fifteen minutes before it was originally set up. Even more interestingly, the alarm clock is going to program itself based on the time the user needed to get to the place and how much time the user will take to get ready before he or she will go out. Everything will be based on statistics of how much time will be spent, and turning on the car minutes before leaving to warm up the engine and inside the car, without needing any human programming or intervention. Another fact to consider is, since the car doesn't need a driver, the time that takes to from from one place to another, can be used to write an essay to apply for an incredible conference, reviewing some details for a test, or having a romantic time with your significant other.
Not only cars but buses are also working with the same principle. Without a bus driver and using Smartphone's to pay the ticket, updating directly in your computer your bank account balance, classifying your expenses, and giving recommendations of how you can save money base on your needs and the sales available in the stores you usually go, and nearby stores that provide the same products.
Although this sounds incredible, there are risks we should consider and work on to reduce the possibilities of side effects; as everything is going to be computerized and working through internet, the power of hackers are going to become more powerful, facing the need of working high-tech anti viruses. Another risk that could affect the economy is the great amount of people who is going to lose their jobs, being replaced by mega efficient systems. So the innovation should work hand by hand with social sciences to overcome these problems and find sources of job for this part of the population.

Talking about the 3D Printers, they are by far, one of the new technologies that are going to change the way the people create. Even though this is not a new technology, I have discovered it months ago during a class mate's presentation. Ever since then, I have been thinking about all the kind of things it would be possible to print with one of those machines, or even how useful could be in my future companies. Creating my own elements of decoration for my hose, making sculptures, impressing my guests with creative shapes of food, replacing broken pieces of things that I love which are not being produced anymore. Moreover, thinking as a business man and a company owner, to make samples of new products without needing a matrix, or printing out them miles and miles away in the factories, without worrying about the shipping time constraint.
Another benefit of 3D printer is the ability to process plastic and other recyclables items. For example, using empty bottles of soda as a recyclable material to print out the missing piece of my wife’s favorite earring, or a new pair of flip flops for my seven years-old-daughter who’s growing up so fast in need of a half size bigger flip flop. In case that I need an organ transplant as I age, specialized laboratories will be able to print an organ made by my own steam cells without worrying about body rejection.
Of course, the introduction of 3D Printers in the market involves some problems. Creating parts of guns made by plastic represents a big risk for the public welfare, since these guns won't be detected by metal detectors, therefore becoming a great opportunity for terrorists. We also have to consider the quality of the products that might be not as good as the ones made in factories. Problem such as breaking down easily and piracy issue such as people downloading for free designs with without copyrights.
Hundreds of millions of Machines communicating with each other without human intervention, generation of a great amount of information that can be processed by systems and software capable to find relationship and interconnection of the generated information, and coming up with solutions instantaneously for daily tasks, complex scientific problems and business needs, could be a little bit scary (thinking about how much the world could change and how this could affect the economy, making the gap between the rich and the poor even wider), and exiting at the same time (discovering what else would be possible to do with these tools). The fact is that this is happening, and through all these changes our world is shrinking, making everything faster, more reliable, accurate and connecting people's lives. In the last phrase I would like to say: 'We should use the tools the technology provides us to understand today and design tomorrow'.