The world is changing. Feel it in the water, in the ground and in the air. The world is changing, but is there much joy from it? Whether it will change for the better or for the worse - that is the question. Take a look at these points, and then decide for yourself.

India will be more populous than China by 2022

China, time to lay off your laurels! You've been the most populous country on Earth for quite some time, but everything is coming to an end. A 2015 United Nations study of global population trends shows that India will be the new undisputed champion of overpopulation by 2022. It used to be that India would take first place by 2028. Apparently, this did not suit the Indians, and they began to work on the first place much harder.

In addition, the UN has predicted that by 2050, insidious Nigeria will displace the United States from the honorable third place. It must be said that in this magical year, Africa alone is responsible for the appearance of exactly half of the total number of new people this year. And while Europe is promoting childfree, valiant Africans are working on demographics. In addition, the UN expects overall population growth to skyrocket to unprecedented levels: by 2050, the world's 9.7 billion people are expected, and by the end of the century, there will literally be nowhere to spit on the planet - 11.2 billion. If you remember that in 1900 there were only 1.6 billion people on Earth, then it becomes embarrassing for the reproductive rate of earthlings: 10 billion in 200 years! Faster than rabbits. It would be better if they tried to save the planet with the same zeal. Because the current 7 billion is already very, very much. 11 billion is a nail in the coffin. Lack of resources and accelerated depletion of the planet, wars and territorial conflicts - these are the immediate prospects for the planet. Of course, if the uncles from the big offices do not start measuring rockets.

We'll be on Mars by the mid-2030s

We haven't been to the moon (if ever) since the 1970s, but we are already planning. This is a dream that could soon become a reality if one of the many organizations trying to do it gets it right.

On August 30, 2011, ten space agencies from around the world gathered as the International Space Exploration Coordination Group (ISECG) to discuss a visit to the Red Planet and possibly a plan for revenge against Marvin Martian for his insidious plans to destroy the Earth. Agreed to send humans to Mars by the mid-2030s. But first you need to fly to the moon or the nearest asteroid in order to remember the completely forgotten technique of flights to other cosmic bodies. It is necessary to conquer these dead space boulders in order to make the first fully robotic mission to Mars, and then eventually make manned missions a reality.

The ultimate goal is to focus on Mars as a possible new home for humans. Given the impending and glittering hunger and lust of overpopulation, this is simply necessary. The only thing left is to make the planet flyable.

Arctic sea ice may disappear by 2037

When we think of the Arctic, we come across harsh snowy landscapes, chunks of ice and bearded men trying to tame icy deserts. The trouble is that over the next decades, the Arctic can say goodbye to ice in principle.

According to research published in the journal Geographic Research Letters in 2009, there has been a large loss of Arctic sea ice. Plus, climate research only confirms the fact that by 2037 we will have lost almost all of the Arctic sea ice. According to these calculations, in 2009 there were 4.6 million square kilometers of sea ice, and by 2037 there will be less than a million - it's like nothing.

In addition, the ice is likely to be much thinner than it is today, further exacerbating the loss of the remaining millions of kilometers. Square sea ​​ice in the summer in the Arctic decreases by about 10% per decade. If the ice leaves the continent forever, then we will have huge problems. It is not yet clear exactly which ones. But it will be a long and painful death. In the beginning for animals, birds, fish, and then for people. First, the level of the world's oceans will rise, which means floods. Secondly, weather conditions around the world will worsen, which will lead to an inevitable increase in mortality. From lack of fresh water, food, from drought. And these are only preliminary forecasts.

AI will be as smart as human by 2040 and smarter by 2060

Artificial intelligence has become noticeably smarter lately, but it still lags behind some of the people. After all, he is nobody without people uploading information to him.

According to Ben Ross, a MYOB Technology expert, artificial intelligence will reach human levels by 2040. He estimates this by averaging many expert predictions and also relying on Moore's Law - the idea that certain parts of computers double their powers every year. Therefore, by 2040, they will get to the point where they are as smart as we are. Ross also believes that AI will actually surpass human intelligence by 2060. Perhaps then we leather bastards will have to obey the might of steel. As Ross said: "We have time to make sure that we improve it, providing a good result, not a bad one." In short, Skynet is close, send T800 and Kyle Reese.

Rats, weasels and other invasive predators will disappear from New Zealand by 2050

The way a person dirtied nature defies comprehension. In addition to pollution, we have developed many invasive species: biological species that have spread as a result of our activities, which threaten biodiversity.

They appear in unnatural places for themselves, kill and eat local wildlife, spread diseases that the "aborigines" are not ready to endure, and simply make a mess in the established system. Therefore, countries like New Zealand are doing their utmost to eradicate rats, weasels, possums, ferrets and creatures that other parts of the world take for granted. But the descendants of proud Maori and colonists want nothing to do with the rest of the world. According to Prime Minister John Key, these animals kill more than 25 million native birds a year, including the island's symbol, the kiwi. In addition to this bird and "The Lord of the Rings" with "The Hobbit", they have nothing. Therefore, they are ready to spend 11 billion a year on the war against vile beasts.

The ozone layer will be completely healed by 2075

We haven't heard much about the ozone layer lately, but in the 70s and 80s, a giant hole appeared, created by chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) - harmful chemicals that were immediately named as one of the biggest threats to our civilization. They are used in aerosol cans, refrigerators, air conditioners, and it's hard to imagine our life without them. But it’s worse if the ultraviolet rays of the Sun freely penetrate the atmosphere and roast us alive.

Fortunately, once scientists understood and understood everything, numerous steps were taken to reduce the use of chemicals that cause the hole to grow. Since then, the ozone layer has slowly but surely healed itself. In 2014, a report from the United Nations of 300 scientists reported the first significant increase in ozone volume since it began to heal. Nevertheless, it is a slow process: according to a UN report, the ozone layer will not grow to the level of the 80s until 2050. Meanwhile, there is a version that in 2075 the most damaged part of the layer over Antarctica will fully recover. In the worst case, 20 million people will die and a show in the style of Kevin Costner's "Waterworld" will begin.

Our jobs will achieve full gender equality by 2095

Still, there are no workplaces - this is a fact. Since 2006, the World Economic Forum has been hosting the Global Gender Gap Report, which addresses gender gaps in 142 countries across several different categories: health and survival, educational achievement, economic participation and opportunity, and political empowerment. According to the 2017 report, we now have 60 percent equality. And, compared to previous reports, the improvement is evident.

While the first two categories hardly have any gap at all, the last two have huge differences that will take decades, accompanied by a roar of feminists and all their sympathizers. The Forum predicts that if uptrends remain unchanged, equality will come in 2095. Since most of us will be retired or dead by then, don't get hung up on this news. Continue to hate Nixelpixel; she, too, will not live, and therefore she will scold men for being men. We hope that in 2095 women will have a conscience, and they will stop believing that men owe them: they should support, give and amuse them, as if they were clowns. After all, there will be equality. So far, Iceland, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark are closest to equality. Russia is in the honorable 75th place.

83 percent of the Amazon rainforest will be gone by 2100

One of the most tragic losses in recent decades has been the rainforest. The problem is that it is almost impossible to return it, and therefore our planet will lose more than hectares of impenetrable forests.

In 2009, the UK's National Meteorological Service released a report that the world should have gotten 4 degrees Celsius hotter by 2055. And this is on average: in some parts of the planet, the temperature will rise by 16 degrees, and the world will turn into a hot, boiling infernal brew.

To make matters worse, this means that by 2100 we will have virtually no Amazon rainforest. Wolfgang Kramer, a climatologist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, predicts that by the end of the century at least 83 percent of the rainforest will be gone. It is hoped that the atmosphere will release additional carbon dioxide and protect the rainforest from drought. If not, then the Amazon will be lost.

Hundreds of bird species will be extinct by 2100

Everyone loves birds, if it's not a pigeon. , but the smartest crows, which, albeit pecking at corpses, are smarter than most people, parrots and penguins are respected by many. The problem is that the upcoming extreme changes in weather - regardless of whether it gets warmer or colder - will begin to kill birds en masse. Conan the Barbarian-style bloody harvest begins.

The study believes that if global temperatures rise by 3.5 degrees Celsius, 600 to 900 bird species will disappear. The birds that live in places where temperatures rarely change are worth fearing the most. If these places are suddenly shaken by cold or hellish heat, then the birds will not be able to adapt and survive. And the pigeons do not care, these rats will adapt everywhere. But the problem is that half of the tropical birds will become extinct. The steppe birds will die out. Many birds will become extinct, and for at least 100 years we will have to collect feathers for hats and arrows from geese, chickens and ducks.

Hong Kong and Macau will lose independence from China by about 2050

Hong Kong and Macau, although they are part of China, are special administrative regions with a high degree of autonomy. Thanks to the "one country, two systems" compromise, Hong Kong (was British territory until 1997) was a capitalist city in a socialist country, and Macau was almost completely autonomous, taking over the culture of Portugal (ruled the territory until 1999).

The point is that these compromises have a shelf life. In both cases, they expire 50 years after they were signed, meaning Hong Kong intends to return to Chinese rule in 2047, with Macau joining them in 2049. Currently, this means that both territories will become socialist. It's another matter what this China will be like. Neither of the two administrative districts wants to be reunited with an older brother. This is not beneficial to anyone.

The question arises: will not a wave of referendums await us after Catalonia? He's definitely waiting. Catalonia is a consequence chain reaction... Kosovo stood at the origins. There are many countries in the world that are bursting at the seams and are afraid of losing a whole piece. Why go far - look at the map of your country. Another thing is that all this is a natural process. The history and borders of each state have been redrawn many times; there are a bunch of peoples claiming recognition. The next stage will be unification, as at the beginning of the 20th century. Although, at the end of the same century, more than 20 new countries appeared on the political map. All this is natural. Hungary in the 18th year lost the territory that is now called Slovakia, Croatia, Romanian Transylvania and Ukrainian Uzhgorod. Now they are targeting the westernmost Ukrainian region.

Everything is cyclical, there is nothing to be afraid of. Empires will split to pieces, you just need to come to terms with this.

Recently, the UN published a fresh version of the World Population Prospects report, which presents the main demographic indicators of the world's population and a forecast for them for the next 85 years. Bird In Flight has prepared an infographic showing what the world will be like in 2100, according to researchers.

Today, the world's population continues to grow, although the pace of last years and slowed down: 10 years ago, the growth was 1.24% per year, now - 1.18%. That is, every year the population increases by 83 million. By 2100, with an average birth rate, the world population will be 11.2 billion people.

Interesting discoveries were made at the level of individual countries - for example, in seven years the population of India will bypass China and by 2050 will be 1.7 billion. Also, in 2050, Nigeria will bypass the United States and become the third most populous country in the world.
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With a falling birth rate and an increase in life expectancy, the population is aging - people over 60 are the fastest growing age group. In 2015, the number of people over 60 is approximately 901 million (12%), but by 2100 there will be 3.2 billion (29%).

The UN forecast for Ukraine is pessimistic - with an average birth rate, the country's population in 2100 will decrease by 41% and will amount to 26 million people. The population of Russia will decrease by 18% - in 2100 about 117 million people will live in the country.

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In Africa, population growth rates remain very high - more than half of the world's population growth by 2050 will occur on this continent. By 2100, the population of Angola, Burundi, Democratic Republic Congo, Malawi, Mali, Niger, Somalia, Uganda, Tanzania and Zambia will increase fivefold. As a result, in 2100, Africa's share of the world's population will increase from 16% to 39%.

We invite you to explore a list of ten amazing and advanced technologies that should appear by about the year 2100. Some of these technologies have already almost appeared, but, on the other hand, the same can be said about thermonuclear fusion, which was promised to us many years ago. And as incredible as the things described below may seem to you, most - if not all - must appear at the turn of the twenty-second century. The reason for this lies in an innovation not on this list: artificial superintelligence. As computer scientist EJ Goode rightly put it in the 1960s, "The first superintelligent machine will be the last invention that man must make."

Once a machine has an intelligence that surpasses that of a human — and this may happen as early as the 2050s — the words “technically possible” will no longer make sense. People will replace such professions as designers and engineers with intelligent machines, they will create technologies from any of our fantasies and fairy tales, and even more. So, here are 10 technologies that could change almost everything.

Virtual reality connected to the brain

Wearable VR devices like the Oculus Rift are all very good, but no matter how complex such devices are, the true sense of being in parallel reality will always remain out of reach. You need something more ... implementing. By 2100, we will no doubt find a way to make the experience of virtual reality indistinguishable from this very reality. It is interesting that this experience will directly enter our brain, while bypassing the usual senses and making everything that happens very reliable.

In order to get a material sense of what is happening, we need to get to the source of all experience: the human brain. Basically, the brain is to some extent a device that processes feelings. Everything that we smell from day to day, be it the smell of leaves or flowers, or warm sunlight, a breath of wind or cold rain, it all goes through the brain. But what is real? When we talk about what we feel or see, what we hear or taste, the "real" are actually the electrical signals that our brain reads.

Futurist Ray Kurzweil, in his book The Singularity is Near, explained how this could have happened. He believes it will all start with nanorobots in our brains and bodies. Nanorobots will support our health, provide direct brain-to-brain communication via the Internet, provide full immersion in virtual reality right from within our nervous system and significantly increase the mental capabilities of a person. But we must not forget that non-biological intelligence "grows smarter" twice a year, and biological intelligence, in principle, stands in one place. By the 2030s, the non-biological part of our intelligence will replace the biological part.

The time frame that Kurzweil named is, of course, somewhat optimistic, but his words make sense; we will find new ways to disrupt the blood-brain barrier and create microscopic machines that can travel throughout the human body. Work is also underway to create detailed map the brain, which includes areas that process incoming sensory information.

After implantation in the brain, Kurzweil nanorobots would be able to detect various sensory inputs in the brain and close them (i.e., prevent electrical signals from the retina, ear, etc. from passing through), completely cutting off a person from the real environment. This would be the perfect sensory deprivation chamber. Instead of these signals, nanorobots, which receive wireless signals, would send their signals to the brain and feed the brain with artificial senses. In this case, it will seem to a person that he is in a completely different world.

J. Storrs Hall, an innovator in the field of nanotechnology, presents a utilitarian fog (or service nanosmog as a swarm of nanorobots, or "foglets" that can take the shape of almost any object and change its shape on the fly. This idea came to Storrs' mind when he tried Instead of airbags and static belts, Hall introduced a clever cloud of connected snowflake foglets that can move in accordance with any object nearby, including passengers in the car.

The utilitarian fog challenges the imagination in terms of technological sophistication. Each foglet will be only ten microns across (that is, the size of a human cell), it will be equipped with a tiny, rudimentary on-board computer that will control its actions (and externally supported by an artificial intelligence system) and ten telescopic limbs that will extend outward in the form dodecahedron. By communicating, the two foglets will form a circuit that will allow the transmission of energy and communication over the network. These voglets will not be able to float, but rather will form a lattice structure that stretches in all twelve directions.

Utilitarian fog will work like programmable matter, it will be able to move, envelop and even transport a person or other object. Probably, such a fog could even be used to create a virtual world around a person.

Space solar energy

As our civilization strives to mitigate the effects of climate change and move towards a more sustainable energy economy, it seems that we will never satisfy our insatiable energy needs. Space energy - this idea was proposed back in the 1960s - and it can solve this problem once and for all.

About sixty years ago, Peter Glazer introduced solar satellites that have the ability to transmit captured solar energy through microwaves to the Earth's surface. Since then, have been proposed various schemes using this idea, and Japan even has a realistic plan. The SBSP system is a Japanese orbital farm that will maintain a stationary orbit 36,000 kilometers above the equator and transmit energy to Earth using laser beams. Each satellite will target a 3-kilometer-wide receiving station that will generate a gigawatt of electricity. This is enough to power half a million homes. For safety reasons, the receiving stations will be located away from human habitats, for example, on an island or in the desert.

At the turn of the XXII century, many people will choose a purely digital existence that is free from all biological constraints. Loading consciousness or emulating a whole brain will make it possible to accurately replicate an existing biological brain. The scan captures every detail down to the molecular level, not forgetting the inclusion of memories, associations and even personal quirks and preferences of the person.

Futurists do not yet know the exact time when the download of consciousness will become available, but an important step will be to make sure that all the most important parts of the brain are copied, especially those associated with the human sense of identity (namely, the parahippocampus and retrosplenal cortex). You will also have to resort to "destructive" copying, where the existing brain is sliced ​​or removed altogether in order to record the state and memories of a person. Alternatively, a sufficiently powerful brain scanner could be used to create casts of the brain and then "insert" them into a computer that is capable of transmitting this information to a functioning consciousness. In order for a busy person to function normally, he also needs a virtual body and environment.

But a very important philosophical and scientific question remains, which must be asked, whether this process will be a genuine "transfer" of consciousness, and not just a copying of the human brain. In addition, it is not very clear whether it is possible to recreate self-awareness on a digital substrate. The frightening thing is that each download can produce some kind of zombie, whose behavior will be similar to how the person behaved in the past, but in fact he will act like a program, according to the script.

It is highly unlikely that we will be able to fully control the weather by the end of this century, but it is possible that we will be able to seriously influence it. We are already seeding clouds with particles to stimulate precipitation; California has been doing it for fifty years. During the summer Olympic Games 2008 in Beijing, Chinese authorities fired 1,100 rockets into the clouds to provoke showers before the storms reached the capital. Sometimes, even into thunderclouds, laser pulses are launched, hoping that this will cause lightning.

In the future, weather engineers will be able to build massive wall-like structures that will interfere with the formation of devastating tornadoes, or they will build massive - very massive - turbines in the sea that will suck energy from hurricanes. A 2014 study showed that a wind farm, which consists of tens of thousands of individual wind turbines, can reduce wind speeds by 148 km / h and reduce storm surges by 79%. In essence, it means nullifying the hurricane.

More interestingly, we could end up building a weather machine to create programmable weather. A particularly curious global blueprint requires a thin cloud of small transparent globes that rise into the atmosphere and can reflect incoming sunlight. Inside each ball will be a mirror and a GPS module, an orientation control mechanism and a small computer. The "programmable greenhouse gas" lifted by hydrogen will be thirty kilometers above the Earth's surface. When millions of mirrors look away from Earth, they can reflect sunlight back into space. This system, which will be controlled by artificial intelligence, will be able to change weather conditions around the world and turn not very habitable places in temperate regions.

Think 3D printers are cool? Then wait for the emergence of molecular assemblers (nanoassemblers), hypothetical machines that were described by one of the fathers of nanotechnology, Eric Drexler. According to Drexler's description, a nanoassembler is a device that is capable of manipulating individual atoms to create the desired product.

Drexler emphasized that biological assemblers already exist and produce complex and amazing structures, such as bacteria, trees, people. Using the same logic, he believes that we will eventually be able to harness the mechanical properties of ultra-small objects and use similar principles to create objects of any consistency or shape.

Nano-assemblers can lead the world to an era of "cardinal abundance", allow us to produce objects and materials that would otherwise be impossible to build, literally from scratch (or, more precisely, from molecules). Such devices could even prepare food. To make a steak, a nanoassembler needs carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen, from which it will add amino acids and proteins, and then assemble them in the form of a steak.

The effects of climate change are likely to be irreversible. No matter what we do from now until 2100, the level of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere will continue to warm the planet.

To prevent many of the environmental disasters that will inevitably follow climate change - from rising sea levels and superdroughts to superstorms and mass extinctions - we need to start changing the planet with geoengineering.

Some notable geohacking proposals include stratospheric particle injection to control solar radiation, cirrus seeding to reduce reflectivity, sulfur spray injection to cause global blackout, and simple solutions such as tropical rainforest restoration to restore carbon balance. Other ideas include a giant space reflector (although this may be beyond our technological capabilities by 2100), fertilizing the oceans to grow carbon-sucking algae, and increasing the alkalinity of the ocean to make them less acidic. There is clearly no shortage of ideas.

The problem with geoengineering, of course, is that we can confidently destroy the planet if something goes wrong and become addicted to it. But desperate times call for desperate measures, and we will rely on sophisticated climate models and supercomputers.

Advances in neuroscience and communication technology will literally transform humanity into a telepathic species.

The emergence of a direct mind-to-mind connection will further bind us as individuals and will likely lead to "swarm consciousness" - a vast network of interconnected minds that work together via the Internet. In such a future, we will begin to observe the dissolution of the personality and the rise of the collective mass consciousness.

Interestingly, such a future may be closer than we think. Back in 2014, an international team of researchers was the first to demonstrate a direct and completely non-invasive brain-to-brain communication system. During the experiments, the participants were able to exchange mentally projected words, although they were separated by hundreds of kilometers. A year later, another team of scientists transmitted brain signals over the Internet, controlling the movements of another person's hand. These systems, which are now only in their infancy, hint at a future in which we will use the power of thought to communicate with each other and telekinetically control the smart devices in our environment.

The power of fusion

Earlier this year, physicists in Germany used a 2-megawatt microwave pulse to heat a low-density hydrogen plasma to 80 million degrees. This experiment produced no energy and lasted only a quarter of a second, but was an important step forward in the effort to launch nuclear fusion, an extremely promising form of energy production.

Unlike nuclear fission, in the process of which the nuclei of an atom are divided into smaller parts, nuclear fusion creates a single heavy nucleus from two lungs. As a result, the change in mass generates a huge amount of energy, which, according to scientists, can be used as a working source of clean energy. Fusion could replace the burning of fossil fuels and traditional nuclear reactors.

But for that, scientists need to figure out how to reliably and safely manage the conditions that commonly occur in the sun. The problem is that fusion plasma is very difficult to confine; freely flowing fluxes of protons and electrons are extinguished. Our sun holds the plasma with powerful gravity, but on Earth, you have to rely on magnets and lasers to replicate this feat. As soon as a tiny piece of plasma escapes, it can ruin the wall of the machine, so the fusion reactor shuts down.

Artificial life forms

Not wanting to dwell on genetic engineering, scientists of the future will surely want to create new organisms from scratch - from microscopic synthetic bacteria to new humans. This burgeoning discipline of artificial life began with an attempt to recreate a purely biological phenomenon, and in this it is helped by computers and other synthetic environments.

The drive to create synthetic life forms is already well under way. Earlier this year, scientists from the Institute of Synthetic Genomics successfully created an artificial bacterial genome that possessed a meager set of 473 genes - fewer than any organism found in nature. Further breakthroughs in this area will help biologists investigate the basic functions of life and classify the most important genes in cells. Scientists can use the building blocks of cells to create organisms with abilities not found in nature, such as bacteria that can consume plastic and toxic waste, and microorganisms that can act as medicines for our bodies.

Any of the technologies listed above can change our civilization. What's less clear is how these miracles will work among themselves; the cross-effects of technologies are often difficult to predict. For example, the connection of virtual reality connected to the brain, loading consciousness and artificial intelligence can lead to the creation of a computer civilization consisting of real people and artificial intelligences. Geoengineering systems of the future may include a weather management system. Etc.

The more predictions we make about future technologies, the more difficult it becomes to understand what the future might actually look like.

Working conditions have changed significantly over the past 100, 50 and even 10 years, but experts believe that we are only at the very beginning of a revolution that will completely change how, where and when we work. These are the predictions made by futurologists.

The very concept of retirement is becoming obsolete

Liselotta Lingso, founding partner of consulting agency Future Navigator, believes that advances in technology will make human labor less efficient and affordable compared to the alternative from robots. As a result, people will switch to search creative solutions that are beyond the power of a computer.

“Machines will do their job well for many years to come, but humans will have to work hard,” Lingso said. "We will have to develop individual abilities to reach our full potential."

According to Lingso, today's working environment is not very helpful in unlocking human potential, so this will change in the future. The biggest changes will be in the typical nine-to-five work schedule, traditional offices, rigid corporate hierarchies, and the very notion of retirement.

“I don’t think we will work on a regular schedule,” Lingso said. "The pension will be replaced by periodic breaks for retraining, and the person's lifestyle will change so as to extend the working life and prevent burnout."

There will no longer be a standard retirement age - a person can simply take periodic breaks in their career. You can choose the type of work that best suits your lifestyle - for example, part-time or contract work.

The staff will be selected taking into account the usefulness of the entire team

“The team should have a maximum of 8-10 people, in a word, as many people as you can feed two pizzas. This size is considered optimal for an innovative team, says Lingso. - Previously, we recruited people to perform specific tasks, like on a conveyor belt. A team like this can be superbly managed, but it won't maximize employee productivity. In the future, recruitment will take into account the usefulness of the entire team as a whole. "

According to Lingso, advanced artificial intelligence and algorithms will help determine optimal size the team and its composition depending on the personal qualities and skills of the employees.

Teams will also have collective benefits like health and insurance, and members can live together or side by side for more convenience.