The sun was just rising over Paris, or the castle had been awake for several Saturdays. People were quietly shaking floating capsules, and pedestrian zones were covered with intelligent pavements that bought energy from the stride of the proles. It was the 10th of March 2040, and Europe had become a continent of sustainability and technological harmony.

I woke up in my home in Amsterdam, where the walls were changing the struggle for my position. Jutarnju kavu pripremila mi je kućna AI asistentica Mira, koja je već znala da chcesz dupli espresso. At the business, in the renewable energy laboratory, we were working on a new solar power system that could provide security for even the smallest rural communities.I travelled to Brussels for the European Summit on the Hyperloop superfast train. Since fossil-fuel aircraft have been banned, such journeys have become faster, cleaner and more affordable. The meeting was devoted to the new law on the rights of humanoid robots - an issue that was as important as people's rights.While I was in the kitchen in the evening, I looked at the hologram messages. The front page celebrated a new development: Europe has become the first continent with a plunging circular economy, where nothing is lost but everything is regained. I thought: maybe the future is not a dystopia after all, but a world that we have built together - a world where science, ecology and humanity go hand in hand.