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Stories for the future of Europe

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Inside the first self-sustainable city on Mars - by ABIBOO studio
Inside the first self-sustainable city on Mars - by ABIBOO studio
Construction of the city of Nüwa could start in 2054 and will see 250,000 people live inside the rock of a steep cliff. Freeze my body, melt me in 80 years, and send me to Mars. Architecture studio ABIBOO has revealed its plans to create the first self-sustainable city on the Red Planet, which is set to be ready for residents in 2100. The city will be called Nüwa and will be located at Tempe Mensa on one of the Martian cliffs. Its position inside a rock on the steep cliff will protect its residents from radiation and meteorites (cool!) while still giving them
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#OurFutures stories by EU citizens
Eine reine Welt
Eine reine Welt
Jeg ønsker, at inden jeg dør, vil jeg få en lille smule optimisme med hensyn til troen på fremtiden.
Jeg ønsker, at inden jeg dør, vil jeg få en lille smule optimisme med hensyn til troen på fremtiden.
I want my grandchildren to have a job that they find relevant at the time. I don't want them to work more than they have time to have the leisure time they need. If you hitchhike without stress, you get better health, which will be an economic benefit for the state. Power and greed have become unfashionable and it has been realized that life is too short for wars and enmity.
Indietro nel futuro
Indietro nel futuro
March 2040. It's not cold, the weather is mild, dry and cool, it's spring! Tour the streets of a green city, low houses, well-kept flower beds and parks, but also meadows and woods in lontantanza; people smile, with a serene, satisfied air, no trace of anxiety. Mi immagino un orrore alla "Macchina del tempo", la sera con l'oscurità queste anime candide cammineranno come agnelli verso il loro destino, cibo per orrendi mostri del sottosuolo (o sottosopra) E invece no, scopro che semplicemente l'umanità pare avere trovato un equilibrio, dopo aver corso sfrenatamente verso il baratro dello sconvolgimento climatico, dopo un decennio di politiche contraddittorie, tra governi negazionisti e guerrafondai che hanno esaurito totalmente le risorse naturali del pianeta in nome del potere e del diritto al benessere, e altri pseudoambientalisti che hanno quasi provocato l'estinzione di migliaia di razze animali da allevamento e varietà colturali antiche con pratiche agricole intensive e aggressive, tentando invano di sconfiggere la fame nel mondo .... ora tutto è tranquillo. The decimated humanity, forced to a thousand renunciations after an indigestion of hatred and unbridled well-being has understood the lesson. It started from scratch, but not really: Earth is now repaying with new resources, new elements, new abundance. Now I can go home.
mitt kumbayaeuropa
mitt kumbayaeuropa
Energy supply secured in Europe, i.e. each country takes responsibility for supplying itself with the energy it needs. Many nuclear power plants or what works in each country. Free movement within Europe but not free movement to Europe from Africa, Arab countries etc. We need to integrate everyone who has come here first. In balance between electric cars and fossil fuel cars, I mean cars and trucks. Every country should work to become self-sufficient in food and what else we may need. Crime is non-existent because everyone has gone there so the prisons are full: The population within Europe is mentally stable, everyone gets help before something terrible happens. No more wife beaters, school shootings, suicides. That study results and student satisfaction are high but at the same time that blue collar jobs and other care professions are highly valued so that we do not have a society filled with engineers, etc. That researchers have managed to solve the problem of pain, cancer, menopause, osteoarthritis, etc.
Przyszłość naszej planety
Przyszłość naszej planety
I hope that in these times people will live without wars and create a worldwide system that will allow us to manage our planet in a way that will protect its resources for future generations. People living in different parts of our world will live in harmony with nature and will be aware that it is necessary to survive. Countries will cooperate rather than compete with each other.
Leren zonder grenzen
Leren zonder grenzen
It is 2040. In her classroom, which looks more like a creative workspace than a traditional school, the teacher walks past groups of students busily working on their projects. No more standard lessons, but personalized learning paths. Tobias is programming a sustainable irrigation system, while Layla is creating an AI-enabled historical documentary. Tests have been replaced by presentations and hands-on assignments. Students learn by doing, together with companies and researchers.I no longer have to handle endless administration-AI tools easily track which students need extra support. This gives her the freedom to really supervise. Schools are no longer enclosed buildings, but hubs of knowledge and innovation. Collaboration with society is the norm. Students leave school not only with knowledge, but with skills, confidence and real experience. I smile. This is education as it always should have been.
End is coming
End is coming
Everywhere people are rushing. New technology show them that they have to invest the time to be better and better every day. We have the help from al intelligence so we don't need to think too much what making us more lazy,more stupid. When anything is happening we don't know what to do. And climate is changing so a lot of people dying so it's so scary. People are loosing everything, it's very hard to recover
Leben im Vertrauen auf Gott
Leben im Vertrauen auf Gott
My vision of the future of our world is shaped by liberalism, oriented towards the "Our Father" and the "Ten Commandments". People should know that our world is created and dependent on a power that, like parents, loves and cares for its children. This power is beyond our imagination, but in reliance on it we should submit to its will for good and not think that the world can be saved according to our will. We should receive the "daily bread" gratefully, "forgive debts", not want to gain advantages through short-term gain at the expense of others, and give the final "redemption from evil" to the Creator of this world.
Eradicating ignorance
Eradicating ignorance
After the Education Revolutions of 2030, everything began to shift. Little by little, bigots became an eclipsed group, as the ignorance that fed their pathological fears against anyone they perceived as 'others' was replaced by a renewed interest in curiosity in education and knowledge. Both metaphorical and physical borders began to fade, our differences being a thing of the past. Some still clung to silly ideas about God and religion but those too, thankfully -- were dying off. That paradigm shift took the power of the billionaire class who were seen as a bunch of greedy warmongering fools only the oldest among us bothered listening too.
una comunità europea diversa
una comunità europea diversa
A truly unified European union in a political, economic federation, with peace as its first objective, then that of a downward redistribution of incomes, an expansion of social and individual rights, which collaborates with Africa for ecological and social development. A European community that develops projects with low environmental impact and makes reforestation and the defense and restoration of the territory one of the top priorities A European community fighting the resurgence of fascism and Nazism.
Toekomst van hoop
Toekomst van hoop
I hope for a future with accessible services for all citizens and clear rules regarding housing and migration. I hope for all world countries to join a collective vowing to ensure that there will never be war again. I hope for freedom to be who you are, but clear and concrete guidelines, such as having two genders. I hope for accessibility to culture and the arts and mandatory artistic classes in schools.
Ateitis be smurto.
Ateitis be smurto.
The war industry is extinct worldwide: no tanks, no missiles, no other weapons. People share land, natural resources and the fruits of their labour. Everyone travels, learns about and respects each other's cultures and traditions, and takes the best from each other. Cars drive themselves, recognise signs and obstacles and follow the rules. Utopia? I know. But I would like it very much. I want people not to die, lives not to be lost.
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