It will certainly be better, because there will be no armed conflicts and others. People and decision makers will understand that this is wrong and unnecessary. I will already be an old woman. With the development of medicine and good care from my family and rehabilitation centers, I will enjoy good health and fitness. There will be no jealousy, because it serves no purpose. Unless it has a positive aspect, e.g. since everyone knows several languages, I will also try to learn them, although I am already an old person. Europe is and will be a beautiful, united continent, without nationalism. Everyone has already understood that life is one. Humans, animals and plants are so important to each other that you have to take the best care of the environment. You don't need so much to live. Work is now and will be very important. People will work longer, because good health and willingness to work will allow them to do so. It will be very important to raise the next generations well. The young will take care of the elderly and learn from their experience. Why the huge estates and palaces. Beautiful, clean small family houses will suffice. Their surroundings taken care of. The younger generation will learn to work solidly and do their duties well. May there be a seat in front of the computer, although they will be even more perfect. Nothing in the world can replace the importance of close and mutual contact with each other. Nothing will change that, and everyone will understand that.

Between now and 2050 my life could be transformed in extraordinary ways. I imagine reaching personal and professional milestones that seem far away today. I might change careers, following a passion I have always kept hidden, or perhaps start a project that inspires others. My relationships will grow and change: new friendships, deep loves, perhaps a family that will enrich my days. Travel may take me to faraway places, opening me to different cultures and perspectives. Revolutionary technologies will affect my daily life, simplifying current challenges and offering me unimaginable opportunities. I know there will be obstacles, but every difficulty will make me stronger and wiser. Looking back in 2050, I may smile, acknowledging how much I have grown and how the path, with all its unexpected turns, has made my life unique and extraordinary.

So Europe in 2040. I would like to see much more cooperation and much less lying. I will talk about that a little later. A green future, of course, but not at any price, a much slower and actually environmentally friendly transition. This is particularly true of the car industry and the jobs in it. I predict that in 2040 a lot of transport will be by air, so cheaper, faster, safer and preferably with minimal refreshment. Ideally, less should be spent on defence, because that automatically means human lives, and deterrence is a children's story. This is where corporations play a much bigger role than politics. So they need to be controlled and restrained. And the money spent on defence should be invested in social welfare and, of necessity, in research and development. Now, about lying. It worries me when the President of the EU, a person in whom I am supposed to have complete confidence, publicly states that, say, Russia is harvesting electronics from washing machines in order to train its army. That the newspapers show a diametrically opposite picture of what is happening on the battlefield. That the EU has lost a great deal from the sanctions against Russia and nothing to gain. I could go on and on. I believe, however, that the evolution of man has not ended, that the man of the future will be more tolerant, that he will erase all the hatreds within him, that he will be open to everyone and anyone. This will not happen by 2040, not even by 2140, but it is already happening. The question that arises is...will there still be a 2040 for us...

År 2040 har den gröna omställningen gått helt i rätt riktning. Man har byggt ut cykelvägar (med uppvärmning vintertid för säkrare cykling), de flesta kör miljöbilar och det är nästan pinsamt om man kör en diesel- eller bensindriven bil. Flickor i hela världen har äntligen fått börja skolan, kvinnor slipper vara rädda när de går ut på kvällarna och världen har blivit en mer kärleksfull och trygg plats. Våldtäktsmän straffas på rätt sätt, mobbare är de som får byta skola, kvinnor i våldsamma relationer slipper fly till skyddade boenden då männen som utsätter dom är de som får ta konsekvenserna.

Wie sieht das gesellschaftliche Leben in 2040 aus? Ich plädiere für ein bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen für jede Bürgerin und jeden Bürger von Geburt bis Tod. Wenn jeder 1.000 € bekommen würde, dann hätte eine Familie mit 2 Kinder, gesamt 4 Personen, ausreichend Geld für einen angenehmen Lebensunterhalt. Halbtagsbeschäftigungen und Hobbys in der freien Zeit haben genügend Raum. Finanzieren kann man das bedingungslose Grundeinkommen durch Wegfall von Zuwendungen wie Wohngeld, Kindergeld, Unterstützungen aller Art. Es gibt dann sicher weniger Krankenstand, Zeit für Weiterbildung, Zeit mit den Kindern, Zeit für Sport und Hobbies und bestimmt weniger Neid unter den BürgerInnen.

Wir haben als Menschheit den Klimawandel gerade noch gestoppt, nun gilt es gemeinsam sich gegen die natürlich immer noch bestehenden Starkwetterereignisse, getaute Gletscher und gestiegene Meere zu schützen. Zum Glück wurden 2035 alle Kriege auf der Erde gestoppt und die Völker sind endlich zusammengerückt. Autokratien, Diktatoren und Herrscher, wie sie in der Vergangenheit Gang und gebe waren wurden abgeschafft um sich auf die Menschheitsziele der SDG der UN zu konzentrieren. Auch wurde das kapitalistische Wirtschaftssystem weltweit angepasst, zum Wohle aller Menschen, dies führte zwar zu etwas geringerem materiellen Wohlstand, doch habe die Menschen erkannt, dass es wichtigeres im Leben gibt als Geld, das de facto ja nur ein Tauschmittel ist. Es bleibt eine Menge zu tun, den 100 Jahre wurden verpennt.

I hope for the future that the world will be so pacified by then that there will be no more such wars as before. Until then, it should be a matter of course in the "developing countries" that people can adjust peacefully to coexistence and design their lives with the right technology in such a way that everyone receives a reasonable standard of living, i.e. the right educational opportunities, sufficient food, etc. These countries manage their raw materials themselves and are reliable trading partners for the "industrial countries". The technology is so advanced that solar power can be stored in sufficient quantities, so that "Dunkelflauten" can also be overcome over several days and in winter. Especially in the desert areas, the solar power harvest will be so good that all people on earth will have their livelihoods, so that it would not be necessary to invade other peoples in armed conflicts.

Budućnost kakvu ja želim u 2040 je da bude zapravo naša prošlost. Naime, u današnje vrijeme svi smo okruženi tehnologijom, a manje društvenim aspektom. Moja bidućnost predstavlja povratak čovjeka u prirodu, čovjeka koji je pravo društveno biće,ulice pune mladih kojima je društvo i država omogućila da kroz različite projekte sudjeluju u društvenom radu i razvijaju svoju kreativnost. Društco koje će učiti najmlađe pravim vrijednostima i gdje će roditeljski odgoj biti takav da će djecu naučiti koje su prave vrijednosti

Nākotnē vēlos ,lai cilvēki izmantotu braucamo velosipēdus,katram būtu zemes gabals un pats audzētu pārtiku ģimenei .Vairāk cilvēki domātu ,ka apģērbs jāvalkā ilgi ,nevis jāpērk jauns katru sezonu.Protams vēlos ,lai katrs vairāk domātu par dabu un to nepiesārņotu .Skolās mācītu vairāk par to kā saudzēt dabu un visu vajadzīgo apmācītu ,kas vajadzīgs nākotnē.

I imagine that we are all very busy freeing nature from all the concrete. We are happy because there is finally security and peace all over the world. The bad people are gone and we can enjoy the good air and nature in all its splendor. We will cook and eat together, nobody is envious of anyone else. Everyone is happy with what they have, because they have everything they need to live. The waters are no longer polluted and no one is cruel to animals or uses them as test subjects. We all have only one faith and only one God, to whom we are grateful for everything he gives us every day. We are getting healthier and fitter every day and we can travel the world without money and see and experience everything that we previously only knew from books or movies. We will be welcome everywhere and get along with everyone. There will be no more stress or entrepreneurs who want to get richer and richer. Because no money in the world can buy life.

From 2040, more and more electric cars will be running and gasoline and diesel will be a thing of the past. More elderly people in residential care centers We live as ordinary people in poverty the rich get richer and the poor get poorer And war is always near

I envision a future where labor is not exploitative, where there is a minimum wage requirement, and workers are truly protected and not treated as mere numbers. People who at the end of their workday still have the strength and hope to go and live their lives outside. I imagine women not being refused contract renewals because they are pregnant or may be pregnant in the future. I imagine a world where people with disabilities are truly protected, backed by society, and where health care is free without having biblical wait times.