Moje dzien w 2040

Anonymous

March 19, 2025

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Ordinary day in 2040
The sun slowly rises over the city, and I wake up in a rhythm that matches my biorhythm. The window automatically illuminates with warm light, imitating the sunrise, to help you wake up naturally, without the sudden sound of an alarm. In the background, you can hear the quiet noise of air filter fans – although in principle it is no longer necessary, because the city has been free of smog for years.

I stretch and lazily browse the morning news, displayed on an interactive wall. Another city announced a complete transition to autonomous transport and the elimination of private combustion cars. This is already the standard – since the mid-1930s, AI systems have completely taken over traffic management, with most people using urban autonomous capsules or high-speed Hyperloop lines connecting neighbourhoods and cities.

There is silence on the streets – instead of old traffic jams and engine noise, you can see smoothly moving electric vehicles, and on the roofs of some buildings there are urban airfields for autonomous transport drones. The city is cleaner than ever before, and greenery now occupies much more space than concrete.

My work day begins calmly, it's an intellectual challenge rather than an obligation. I don't have to go anywhere, because most meetings take place in virtual reality. In the past, people used to spend hours in offices, now most of us are engaged in creativity, research or exploration. Robots and artificial intelligence have taken over routine activities. Twenty years ago, people were afraid that AI would take their jobs, but the reality turned out to be different. With basic income, no one has to fight for survival, and everyone can focus on what interests them.

I can't help but think about how much the world has changed in the last 15 years. I still remember traffic jams, exhaust fumes, eternal road repairs and constant rush. Today, life is more sustainable – AI helps manage the city, energy comes only from renewable sources, and thanks to automated production, people do not have to work as much as they used to and you waste time commuting to the workplace.

I wonder if I'm going to another city in the afternoon – thanks to Hyperloop, I can be at the other end of Europe within an hour. But why don't I just go for a walk? The air is clean, the parks are full of greenery, and the cities have finally come to belong to the people, not to the cars.

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We all live in a world w here our environment is much better and the forests are slowly coming back to life. There are fewer dead trees because the air is cleaner and less polluted with CO2. We have found various ways of producing less CO2 and removing it from the air. Private transport still exists and it is not just electric cars that are on the road. Overall, cars have become much smaller again because nobody needs such large vehicles anymore. People in large cities are also using bicycles of all kinds much more, so the number and width of roads has been significantly reduced. Everything is much greener. Wind, water and solar energy is widespread and can be produced and stored in sufficient quantities. Coal-fired power plants have been largely abolished and nuclear power has not been developed further. Heating has been reduced to a reasonable level in relation to oil and gas because these options have been significantly improved and produce even fewer emissions. People live much more with each other than against each other. The economy is still doing well because less unnecessary things are produced and goods last much longer and can even be repaired. Agriculture produces in reasonable quantities without doing so in places where, for example, water is not available in sufficient quantities for plants, people and animals.

The future of Europe, I hope, can be oriented toward the pursuit of the least possible environmental impact, the pursuit of scientific progress in the medical field, greater integration among peoples and less financial inequality among people, more attention to civil rights

Pollution would finally be falling, and a real awareness would have taken place everywhere (Europe and the rest of the world). No more active military conflicts in Europe and as few as possible in the rest of the world. Politicians would at last be willing to act for the good of all, and not for their own personal gain. Leaders would take a long-term view and not just look ahead to election dates...

The European Commission, that group of liberal satraps, has at last been replaced by democratically elected leaders, their cowardly behavior in the face of Russia having discredited them and led to a revolt by the nations that refuse to accept the expansion of the Ukraine they have maintained at arm's length, to the detriment of their agricultures, invaded by low-end products. Nations that came only to benefit from subsidies have been ejected, and are content with a free-trade agreement. Great Britain joined the Union as an observer. The bankruptcy of the German system and its coal-based energy finally made it possible to dispense with its tutelage. President Trump died, victim of Musk's coup. China tried again to invade Viet-Nam and took another beating. And I'm 89 years old.

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