The Future Of Travel - From Robot Airport Guides to Self-driving Cars

Problem
What problems can technology of the future solve?

Answers
Korea has robots in training at airports ready for the Olympic games in February 2018.

Singapore, the UK and Prague in the Czech Republic have shared bikes.

We already have robots doing operations in hospital, faster, safer, more accurately.

We can solve murders by finding the place where a victim's phone last pinged.

Supermarkets are ordering food when it runs out. Websites tell us when the item we want to buy is re-stocked and offered at an irresistible deal.

You can watch your empty home from afar to catch a burglar, see that your dog is up to mischief and if it's lonely, chat to it on the screen, work out that the twins have climbed out of their cots and are heading for the bedroom door.

As you return home from a holiday or business trip your phone can turn on the lights and heating, order a food and drink delivery, vacuum clean the floor.

Singapore has staff wearing orange to help you at the MRT (mass transit) train stations, like the staff in orange at London's DLR (Docklands Light Railway) stations welcoming the travel trade and tourist boards every year to the World Travel Market in London.

Then it's back to the computer to sort your photos, email automatically to your friends and family that you are back home or back in the office and your holiday trip is on line for all to enjoy.

Now I need my year's travel planned, the holidays chosen by budget, and a language course (free from Duolingo) to fit the countries selected.


http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20171205-why-south-korea-is-an-ideal-breeding-ground-for-robots