A Day in the Digital Age I wake up to the sound of my soft alarm clock, letting me know it's time to start my day. My smart home has already set the temperature and lighting, while my robot servant prepares my coffee. Before I leave for work, I glance at the news on my phone screen. Most of the news is about the latest developments in artificial intelligence and automation. As I leave the house, I board my flying car. Traffic on the roads has decreased significantly as most cars are autonomous andWhat happened between 2025 and 2040? In the last 15 years, Europe has experienced a number of significant changes. Artificial intelligence and automation have penetrated all areas of life, from work and education to health and leisure. Climate change has been successfully tackled as governments have taken steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and promote renewable energy. Europe has become a more united and cooperative continent, with common policies to address the challenges of the 21st century.

The war in the Ukraine has ended peacefully. Russia has totally withdrawn. Putin is deceased. The tensions of the past few years have made people in Europe realize the need to communicate and cooperate with each other in an open and peaceful manner.

I believe that in 2040 artificial intelligence will have taken a leading role in our lives, making our everyday life and our life better because through artificial intelligence we will be able to make several inventions and new discoveries about the way humans think.

If it is 2040, I would like the world to be free of war and violence and to be able to travel freely through Europe. People able to visit Eastern European countries again without the threat of violence. The economies will flourish again because of increasing tourism. Even Moscow is flourishing in this regard. Those in power now are under lock and key, and new governments stand for freedom and democracy.

The first thing I want in the future is to find a cure for all the pain that is caused, so that everyone has a chance to heal. So that everyone can live, create, buy, sell ... so that it is a safe circle for everyone. I want to see the world moving in a teleporting way, relationally, soon and surely. And naturally, there will be no more forgotten nations and countries.

One day in Europe in 2050 In the morning, the sunlight slowly filtered through my window. The streets of Budapest were silent as self-driving electric vehicles glided silently over the green plant-strewn roads. The energy came entirely from renewable sources, with houses powered by their own solar panels and wind turbines. In the last twenty-five years, Europe has been radically transformed. The fight against the climate crisis has been a success: industry has gone green, cities have been managed by smart systems that have reduced waste and optimised resource use.

In the society of the future, we share and think in a circular way, using the Earth's resources so that there is enough for everyone and so that we do not jeopardize our future. Waste no longer exists, but everything we produce and manufacture is fed back into systems to be used and given new life. Artificial intelligence (AI) has freed up resources to change the way people work, leaving more time for creativity, humanity and other things that make us feel good. We are living longer. Individualism has peaked and measuring performance has been replaced by intrinsic motivation and a sense of belonging. We are not our professions but people, with more time for thought and reflection. The society of 30 years from now will be a strong society where we have taken responsibility for, and adapted to, climate challenges. Technological developments and the exponential growth of digitalization have created good conditions and shared knowledge, understanding and insight have guided us in how to use them in the best way. We operate in a global context where we reach the whole world no matter where we are.

Many more jobs where people are valued. Where people are not against each other but help each other. They can happily raise a family and have a happy home. Other governments are for the people and not against them.

In 2025, the second pandemic of that decade spread rapidly around the world. H5N1 led to devastation for farmed and wild animals, and the food chain, as a result. Governments worldwide came together to do what they hadn't done for covid - implement mitigation measures including isolation, testing, vaccination and, most importantly, improved indoor air quality. Looking back, it seems incredible that we breathed each other's exhaled air for hours on end, trying to work and learn in stuffy, unventilated spaces as the CO2 increased. Kids missed so much school, and adults missed so much work - things are so different now. We know that viruses, pollutants and mold float around in the air but that it's easy to remove them, and now kids, who are much more affected by dirty air due to their body size, are much healthier. We also know that whilst germs do help our immune systems learn, there are no viruses that are good for us, and we'd never knowingly allow them to spread as they can cause long term illnesses and immune dysfunction. This is what we learned from covid, and hopefully we will have cures for all the illnesses it caused (before we eradicated it) soon. Around the world, indoor and outdoor air quality have improved so much, and the heating of the planet now seems like something we might be able to slow down, because we know governments can work together for the benefit of their citizens, especially since we banned billionaireism and put all their money to good use.

The world of work is one of those realities that should undergo a change, more and more the desire to go elsewhere and get away from the daily grind, the hectic pace of the day, appears and transpires. It would be useful to streamline the work days, to allow people to produce better and with more serenity, no more commuters stuck in traffic and stressed adults trying, climbing the walls, to make ends meet.