European digital sovereignity

Anonymous

April 26, 2023

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In 2040, Europeans have achieved digital sovereignity - all important digital services like search, cloud storage, messengers, social networks, video conferencing, etc. are offered from European data centers, adhering European privacy laws. This has happened after the EU decided to create a European foundation to fund free and open source software (FOSS). The foundation reached out to the European open source community, offering to host the two most-used FOSS packages in each category, plus supporting key members of the open source community (but participation in the development of this software was limited to European citizens). As a reaction to this offer, FOSS has taken a great leap and the European software has taken the lead in the world of FOSS. In addition to the services itself, supporting infrastructure such as encryption and authentication and auditing, is available as European FOSS to every citizen.

For example, every citizen receives European-verified certificates for encryption of emails, messages, or storage, for free. It's European infrastructure, paid by general taxes, like streets and education. Non-European citizens may buy access to this infrastructure.

In this future, Europeans may reap the benefits of computers and internet without being tracked and their data being sold by companies for company profits. Instead, the privacy of the individual person takes priority over profits.

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Utopija budućnosti

I see a future in harmony with nature, in a clean environment, an economically correct system. I would like everyone to have the right of access to health services. I would like to see greater control over the serving of meals, stricter penalties for those who commit serious criminal offences, more effective courts and more credibility for schools.

Oaza sigurnosti i prilika

I want a future that is more certain and opportunities that are more accessible to all. I wish for people with happy faces who spend more time with their friends and family, and less time with non-white people in business. I wish for a future in which the focus is not so much on the material as on the spiritual. I want mental health to be as vital as physical health. I wish peace, love and happiness.

Utopia

A totally different world, where there are no differences, where there is no fight against the extracommunity, where any person can walk and live their lives peacefully. A world where climate change no longer exists, and where lobbies who are ready to do anything to gain more power no longer exist. The future I want will never exist, the future is worrying.

Il mondo peggio

Surely the fashion world should adapt to the recycling of fabrics and clothing already made and no longer produce the same quantities that are produced today, so fashion would be much more oriented to secondhand and textile recycling. Private mobility should be reduced only where it is indispensable, so the public transport network should be completely expanded this time, leaving room for new means of commuting. I fear that by 2040 the climate has changed a lot, I imagine that there will be many problems related to water supply, so I imagine that there will be water rationing not so much for citizens as for companies and industries. The world of agriculture will therefore also be affected by the new, obviously warmer climate, and therefore cultures will be rethought and modified according to the new temperatures. Even at the political level I imagine that we are going to create an Orwellian situation in which states will form new alliances and coalitions and go towards a clearer block division, even the exchange of goods between the various blocks will be much more complex.

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