To end permanent, physical injuries, our society has to make a choice: Do we play God with our human biology or do we become part machine?

Thus far in our Future of Health series, we've focused on the future of pharmaceuticals and curing diseases. And while illness is the most common reason we make use of our healthcare system, the less common reasons can often be the most grave.

100 billion neurons. 100 trillion synapses. 400 miles of blood vessels. Our brains frustrate science with their complexity. In fact, they remain 30 times more powerful than our fastest supercomputer.

In two decades, access to the best healthcare will become universal, regardless of your income or where you live. Ironically, your need to visit hospitals, and even meet with doctors at all, will decline over those same two decades.

Welcome to the future of decentralized healthcare.

The future of healthcare is moving outside of the hospital and inside your body.

Thus far in our Future of Health series, we discussed the trends set to reshape our healthcare system from a reactive to proactive service industry focused on preventing illness and injury. But what we haven't touched on in detail is the end user of this revitalized system: the patient. What will it feel like to live inside a healthcare system obsessed with tracking your well-being?

Unlike what many prefer to believe, human evolution hasn’t ended. In fact, it’s speeding up. And by the end of this century, we may see new forms of humans walking around that may look entirely alien to us. And a large part of that process has to do with our current and future perception of human physical beauty.

For millennia, prospective parents have done everything in their power to give birth to healthy, strong, and beautiful sons and daughters. Some take this duty more seriously than others.

We’re all on a lifelong journey to improve ourselves, spiritually, mentally and physically. Unfortunately, the ‘lifelong’ part of that statement can sound like an awfully long process for many, especially for those born into rough circumstances or with a mental or physical disability. 

However, through using the developing biotech advances that will become mainstream over the next few decades, it will become possible to quickly and fundamentally remake yourself.

From changing beauty norms to designer babies to superhuman cyborgs, this final chapter in our Future of Human Evolution series will discuss how human evolution could potentially end. Get your bowl of popcorn ready.

Before centennials and millennials became the darlings of the 2000s, Generation X (Gen X) was the talk of the town. And while they've been lurking in the shadows, the 2020s will be the decade when the world will experience their true potential.

Over the next two decades, Gen Xers will begin taking over the leadership reins across all levels of government, as well as throughout the financial world. By the 2030s, their influence on the world stage will reach its peak and the legacy they will leave behind will change the world forever.

Millennials are primed to become the key decision makers for those trends that will soon define our current century. This is the curse and the blessing of living in interesting times. And it is both this curse and blessing that will see millennials leading the world out of the age of scarcity and into the age of abundance.

But before we dive into all of that, just who are these millennials?