What to tell

Let it be said. 30 years from now will not dramatically change anything. Go back 30 years and see how it looked. The year 1990 is not so different. There were still cars and some of them are still around. We dressed in ‘normal’ clothes and so on.

But of course there were changes happening.

So let us go to year 2050. And not wasting time on thinking we are in space suits (or Star-trek uniforms).

The cloud: we will be interacting in the cloud. We might not really have a ‘device’, but rather call up what we want as a HUD in front of us. That should be possible as wherever we are, we are ‘recognised’ and forever ‘logged on’.

It means that we have access to all info and all apps. We need only state what we want.

Energy: There might still be coal-fired plants around, but they will be the exception. The world is powered by wind and solar as the base load and having a small fleet of next-gen atomic power stations (remember it takes something like 10-15 years – or more – to build a nuclear plant).

The fast-breeder technology will actually ‘eat’ the nuclear waste from the old stations.

Housing: we will be so many more people in the world. We will live closer to each other. Right now, Asia accounts for 30% of the world area but for 60% of the population. That will intensify.

Food: We are all vegetarians. Animals will not be eaten.

School: It will be recognised that learning is also a social thing. Therefore, classes will still be there, but it will focus on activities requiring participants. The usual learning of subjects will be driven by AI engines, and will be for the individual via the cloud.

Going ‘to school’ will be for social interaction where ‘learning’ will be in the home. Immersive classrooms will be the norm. Like being in a 3D game and no need for VR-goggles.

What to learn will be driven by the desire of the individual and past learning and all governed by AI.

Music and film: Of course we will enjoy these things. Will never go away, will they?

Fashion, shoes and the rest: still there!

This is the world we might look at and which our writers will take as the baseline.