What comes after Artificial Intelligence?Artificial intelligence is transforming our world—but AI may not be the final technological revolution. It may simply be the foundation for something far greater.BEYOND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 2050 takes readers on a thought-provoking journey into the technologies that could reshape civilization over the next quarter-century. As intelligent systems become embedded in everyday infrastructure, the true frontier of innovation may shift from information to the physical world: robotics, programmable biology, quantum systems, advanced materials, clean energy, neurotechnology, autonomous science, and space exploration.What happens when machines do more than process information—when they can act in the physical world, accelerate scientific discovery, engineer biological systems, manage complex infrastructures, and interact increasingly closely with the human body and mind?This book explores a future in which AI becomes almost invisible because intelligence is everywhere.Drawing on technological foresight and an interdisciplinary perspective, Farid BASSAID OULHADJ examines the major forces that could define the world of 2050: autonomous laboratories, intelligent robots, personalized medicine, synthetic biology, quantum technologies, energy abundance, climate adaptation, the circular economy, cognitive freedom, digital sovereignty, the future of work, and the emerging space economy.But this is not simply a book about machines.At its heart lies a much deeper question:What will remain uniquely human when intelligence itself becomes abundant?Rather than presenting 2050 as a guaranteed future, this book examines possibilities, constraints, uncertainties, and choices. Technology may provide humanity with unprecedented power to transform matter, life, energy, and even ourselves—but scientific capability alone cannot determine how that power should be used.The revolution beyond AI may therefore be more than technological. It could become a revolution in how humanity understands progress, knowledge, work, health, freedom, responsibility, and human purpose.2050 is not a distant science-fiction world. Its foundations are being built today.And the most important question may no longer be what artificial intelligence will become—but what humanity will choose to become alongside it. Read more
