Daily Mail, Thursday, August 29, 2019 Page 23
Space holidays, insect burgers
and T V beamed into our brains:
How we’ll all be living in 2069
Boy who went f ishing
with a magnet... and
found an arsenal
of weapons
A BOY has reeled in an arsenal of
weapons including hand grenades,
guns and knives after taking up
magnet fishing to keep him out of
trouble during the summer holidays.
George Tindale, 13, got into the unu-
sual hobby just a year ago – and in that
time has recovered five guns, 50 knives
and three bombs.
In the past four weeks alone he has
found two unexploded World War One
grenades, two officers’ handguns, two Bel-
gian pistols from the early 19th century, a
revolver from 1880 and a machete.
George’s discovery of two World War
One grenades, one German and one Brit-
ish, earlier this month led to police seal-
ing off a stretch of the River Soar in
Leicester and calling in the Army’s bomb
disposal unit.
The haul was handed into police and
given back to George when the weapons
were declared safe.
George, of Newark, Nottinghamshire,
began his hobby in August last year after
watching a video of a magnet fisher
online. In that time he has also recovered
55 shopping trollies, mobile phones, drug
scales, safes, power tools, lawnmowers
and four motorbikes.
George fishes with his father Kevin, 50,
an agricultural worker. He said: ‘It’s very
rare for magnet fishers to find a gun in a
river, so to pull out this many is amazing.
It’s incredible what people dump.
‘I got into it through watching a YouTu-ber. I thought, “I have got to do this”. I
find it really fascinating. I’ve never been
one for computer games or hanging
around the streets, I like to get outdoors.’
George also clears plastic from the riverbeds while he is fishing. Proud mum Den-
ise Newton said: ‘He’s only been magnet
fishing for a year, but to find so many
weapons is unheard of. It’s fascinating
but concerning there are so many gunsand knives in our waters. Each has a story
to them, how did they end up there?
‘Every piece he is removing is helping
the planet, as a lot of it is draped in plas-
tic and will end up in our oceans.’By Claire DuffinFOR some people it will
sound like a fantastic
dream. For others, it will be
more of a nightmare.
Either way, experts predict
that in 50 years’ time, we will be
holidaying in space, eating burg-
ers made of insects and travel-
ling via underwater highways.
A report commissioned by mobile
phone makers Samsung has drawn
up a startling picture of how our
lives might look by the year 2069.
It tells of tiny computers
implanted into our bodies that
translate foreign languages in an
instant. And microchips under the
skin will also be used to keep our
health in check. Sensors will tell us
exactly what our bodies need at any
time – so that we can eat food that
has been carefully tailored to our
personal nutritional requirements.
This is where the bug burgers
come in – researchers claim thatinsects will become so widespread
that they will be one of our main
sources of protein and that every
kitchen will even be equipped with
small insect farms.
One of the authors, Jacqueline
de Rojas, said: ‘The next 50 years
will bring the largest technologi-
cal changes and innovations we
have ever seen in our work and
leisure. The Digital Revolution,
just as the Industrial Revolutiondid 250 years ago, is challenging
all our assumptions about how we
shall lead our future lives.’
The Future In Focus report pre-
dicts we will wind down at the end
of the day by watching television
programmes beamed directly to
our brains, via ‘optoelectronic
devices’, or surf the web simply by
‘plugging ourselves in’.
Advances will mean that people
will be able to replace failingorgans at will, with new ones pro-
duced by 3D printers and trans-
planted by robotic surgeons capa-
ble of incredible levels of precision.
We will also rely on automated
assistants to clean our homes, and
act as ‘virtual carers’ in old age.
The radical improvements to
healthcare and diet mean that
people born around 2069 could
expect to live forever – even bat-
tling dementia by uploading theirmemories into virtual storage. But
competition for space will be fierce
given the inevitable population
explosion. In addition to vertical
farms, 2069 will see the dawn of
the age of the ‘earth-scraper’ –
structures built many-storeys
deep into the ground.
The underwater highways will
allow us to travel faster, so that we
could go from London to Scandi-
navia in less than an hour.
Or, if we fancy hopping across to
New York, we could board a reusa-
ble rocket that will travel outside
the atmosphere before dropping
back down to earth at 20,000 miles
an hour – cutting the journey time
to 30 minutes. Space enthusiasts
will also be able to spend their
holidays in luxury hotels orbiting
the moon or other planets.
But whilst these developments
may excite some, for others they are
horrifying. A survey by Samsung
found that nearly two-thirds of Brit-
ons like the sound of a self-cleaning
home, but only 14 per cent find the
idea of eternal life or plugging their
brains into the web appealing.Gun fishing: George’s finds include two Belgian revolvers and a 1915 hand grenadeREVOLVERS GRENADE
By Katherine Rushton
Media and Technology Editor 15 DREAMS THAT COULD BECOME REALITYDrone-style air taxis and busesHotels orbiting the Moon and
other planets
Underwater highways
Eternal life, with memories
uploaded to virtual storage
to combat dementia
Mass-scale 3D printing of
organs for immediate useSelf-cleaning homes using robot
technologyEarth-scrapers (inverted sky-
scrapers going underground)
London to New York in 30 min-
utes by rocket
Virtual multi-sensory holidays
TV and films beamed directly
into your brainRobotic surgeons and doctorsVirtual companions and carers to
support our health 24/7
Body implants that monitor our
health and translate languages
High street takeaways selling
‘insect burgers’
Vertical farming, using the
sides of buildings for crops‘On a positive note at least
he’s catching something...’Chilling: George
Tindale shows off
the machete he
pulled from the
river with his
magnet on a rope