Ich wache auf und mache mich fertig für die Arbeit. Im Haus macht mir KI mein Leben leichter. Ich steuere alle Funktionen per Sprachassistent. Autos bzw. ÖPNV fahren alle elektrisch. Wohnungen sind kleiner als heute und voll klimaneutral. Die Arbeitswelt hat sich sehr verändert und die Arbeitszeit hat sich auf 30 Stunden reduziert. Fleisch wird nur noch synthetisch hergestellt.

In 2040, the world of work will be totally different from what it is today. Many jobs, especially painful ones, will have disappeared, replaced by machines and artificial intelligence. These technologies will have lowered production costs, and thus the costs of goods and services. The universal income will have been put in place, which means that every citizen will earn the same amount every month, whether he works or not. Those who wish will be able to continue working to enrich themselves or for pleasure and those who prefer to enjoy life will be able to live simply with the sum allocated to them.

Today is July 13, 2040 and after so many years of work, I finally retired! I decided that I would take a tour of the city and since, unlike a few decades ago, even if we are in the middle of summer there are only 28 degrees I will ride a bike between one park and another following at least part of the longest cycle path in Europe. I will stop without a doubt to look at the wind farm installed on top of Montestella, also because the neighbor passes there are a couple of those ice cream shops of the people where pistachio ice cream is offered to the lords of my age.

I would like a future where people can live together and in peace without distinctions of color, religion or sexual preferences, where people are "judged" for how they behave, a future where technology is used to improve people's lives and not to replace them in the workplace and where safety at work is the first place, a future that can guarantee a peaceful life for my grandchildren.

We are in 2040, I look out the window and I see a clear sky, few cars and all electric. I see so much green, the air is clean and there are children playing football (football cannot be missing even in the future!). I go out, a drone brings me groceries in front of the house, a grocery that my refrigerator did asking me what I wanted. Watch the news, talk about the fact that the United States of Europe is celebrating 10º year of life

We celebrate 2040 by listening to our welcome speech by the President of the European Union. The speech remembers how the European Union grew, how it counterbalanced other demotritic and autocratic states, and how powerful the EU became when, as early as 2025, countries agreed to sacrifice part of their sovereignty by handing over the most important tools of governance to the EU, the fuel we could call the European Federation. There are no more divisions, contradictions and endless discussions on the most important issues of their citizens on economic, financial, educational, defence, diplomatic or other issues. The EU has systematised the verybes that guide every country within its autonimia. By working together, we have achieved incredible results in the field of science, which has led to a significant increase in the gross domestic product, both at the level of the whole federation and by each member individually. The cultural life of all of us has become richer, more diverse and more mature. In this year, 2040, the EU set a new goal to expand its space program and achieve a breakthrough by colonizing suitable but uninhabited planets. Not all EU citizens continued to listen to the welcome speech, but the absolute majority was happy and proud of the opportunity to live in the most friendly democratic (without irony) federation.

The world is in a calmer phase, the storms of the early 2020s have subsided and humanity can enjoy a meaningful life. We have come to our senses, we no longer spend as much as we used to and we do not always aspire to a higher standard of living than the previous generation. A miracle has taken place and our eastern neighbour is peaceful and there too there seems to be a genuine opportunity to discuss differences and also for the borders of the country to remain in place and for neighbours not to be threatened. The problems facing our planet have led most of us to consider our actions more calmly and to prefer a simpler way of life. Personally, I will be 85 years old in 2040, hopefully still living with my spouse of the same age, either in my current home or in a new easier to maintain home, and getting the help I need. My child is middle-aged and will continue to work in his chosen profession and lead a normal good life with its joys and sorrows.

I have several points on how I imagine the world to be fairer and better. Firstly, pensions. The intergenerational contract is full of cheese and is more like a pyramid game than a real pension plan. for the intergenerational contract to work, every citizen needs 3-4 children, which means that every woman would have to give birth to between 6 and 8 children. i have been working since i was 15 and therefore i have paid enough into the fund until i am 62 and have also been paid in by my employers so that i could easily enjoy my pension at 62. However, as there are also people who study until the age of 30 and then work part-time and also want to retire at 62, I am paid less and my contributions are redistributed. Since the pension money has already been spent because of the generation contract, I just have to hope that a few more people will be found who will then dutifully finance my pension. The generation contract is like a pyramid game and should be abolished. Security Internal security: It is a fact that the internal security situation has deteriorated considerably since the influx of refugees. They come to a Christian Europe, mainly Austria and Germany, and want to live out their culture here, from which they have fled and which does not function peacefully. The inhibition threshold of Muslim people is sinking further and further so that they commit massacres and murders in Austria, rape children and women and as soon as you say something, these people call you a Nazi. You are not a Nazi if you kick a rapist where it really hurts and then demand that he has forfeited his right as a guest and must return to his homeland. For me, a religion-free society would be much more sensible anyway, then there would be more room for science and without faith there would be no unbelievers. External security: There is a lot of discussion about how we should defend ourselves against Russia if the USA does not support us against Russia. It is never said how we can achieve lasting peace with Russia. How an economy with Russia and the EU could work. A war would only please the arms lobby, otherwise it would bring no benefit. fieden benefits everyone. Gender madness: It's time we stopped with the gender madness. If someone doesn't know what he/she is, just a quick grab in the pants solves the problem. There are 10 people in Austria who were either born without or with both genders. However, homosexuality is neither a disease nor a gender. you can love what you want and you want it as long as the people involved are not underage and consenting. Then "DEUTSCH Österreichisch" should be spoken again on ORF and not stuttering German with * or binnen-i. Teachers teach this at school. Anyone who knows German knows from this sentence that male and female teachers are meant. There is a female teacher that is to be used spetziell for female teaching staff. I feel discriminated against as a man that there is no word that Spetziel aims at male teaching staff. Environmental protection is important, no question. However, cutting down the rainforest so that lithium can be mined to build batteries for electric vehicles is a wrong environmental idea! it does nothing for the world if Austria reduces greenhouse gases unless everyone pulls together. Germany and Poland are also building more coal-fired power plants to cover the energy requirements for e-mobility. this is illogical, because the efficiency of the combustion engine is better than that of coal-fired power plants and charging. In addition, battery production causes as much CO2 as a combustion engine emits with a mileage of 120000 km. Only then would the e-car amortize in the environmental balance sheet if the electricity did not come from coal-fired power plants, because then it would never reach zero balance. In addition, after 10 years the battery in electric vehicles is unusable and has to be replaced. It would be more beneficial to reduce the number of transport ships by producing many of them in the EU and not outsourcing everything to China or India. 3 largest transport ships need as much fuel annually as ALL motor vehicles worldwide. and transport ships are powered by heavy fuel oil and not by more environmentally friendly diesel or gasoline. We should be proud of our Christian values and if someone does not adhere to our

I would like to see a future where public transportation is not an issue to get where you want public transportation should also be free. There are houses for everyone even when you get older with conveniences to stay independent as long as possible. The environment becomes greener and greener by residents are common vegetable gardens and everywhere are trees that have fruit and nuts so you can just pick something there is much less imported from abroad because we grow our own vegetables. This is distributed fairly.

My, how long has it been since 2025. The year when things finally started to get better for the earth. It was November 12, my birthday. Blowing out my 45 candles, I made a heartfelt wish from the depths of my soul: "I wish I could save the world!" And here I am, 15 years later. I am now 60 years old, but the life of every human being has improved so much that 60 years is now equivalent to 40 in the 20th century. I have succeeded in stopping wars, eradicating extremism of all kinds, slowing down climate change, and above all, eliminating all kinds of social inequality. There are no longer poor and rich. Each person is free to be what he or she wants to be. Those who want to work can do so and those who do not want to, cannot. No one is forced. Everyone has the same opportunities anyway. Everyone has a house, everyone has food, everyone has electricity, water and internet connection. Everyone has medical care and medicine, and for many diseases a cure has been found, thanks to scientists who have continued to lend their skills with passion. You travel completely free to go anywhere you want, without the need for red tape. You get on a vehicle and go where your heart desires. Since there are no longer any social and economic differences, there is no need for wars. There are no longer the powerful and the weak. We are all equal. This has also helped alleviate problems such as depression, anxiety, violence, alcoholism, etc.... Because no one has anything to worry about anymore. We help each other, expecting nothing in return with the assurance that we will have the same help if we need it. Oil and coal were set aside years ago. Only renewable energy is used. The air smells of flowers, woods, meadow and sea, depending on where you are. Everyone has the same rights. Everyone is free to be who they prefer.

There are now fusion generators that can really be used as power plants. Yamp! This solves the problem of increasing energy demand in the world. Electricity has now become cheap. There is a boom in the recycling industry, as energy-intensive processes have suddenly become economical.

In the future, I envision vehicles that are capable of being able to travel at mid-altitude, with autonomous mobility like today's airplanes, also capable of avoiding each other and leading the occupants to their destinations without risk. unfortunately, I have seen the effects of road accidents too many times. L eattuali paved roads would be available to transport goods or, better yet, goods could be moved by rail. People should be free to go out and enjoy life, being able to work the bare minimum even from home, working less and with mggier income, so that they can enjoy the rest of their lives, without being forced to spend most of it working or on the road in traffic. Unfortunately, I know very well that this is a utopia, but sometimes I like to be able to believe in fairy tales. I would also like to see a safer world where those who do wrong really pay, especially that laws not only punish street thugs but also white-collar criminals who do more damage than others but are not touched in any way because politicians make laws to protect themselves.