This world we hope for, I'd like it to be fairer, less cruel, that climatic events are less violent, that all peoples can have access to water and food without too many difficulties. That the sea doesn't submerge coastal cities and Pacific islands, and that temperatures don't continue to soar and melt glaciers and ice floes. We also hope that the world will live in peace, without the great powers having any desire for hegemony over neighboring countries. And that the rights of women and minorities be respected.

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 Tests have been replaced by presentations and hands-on assignments.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.

I discuss the weekly program with my computer and we decide to go on a round trip during the week and play the best golf courses in the area. While I am at the breakfast table, which is also a screen, still assembling the utensils that the robot should bring out of the box and pack for me, the car is already supplied by the computer with the necessary routes and the cargo, the computer reserves for me the accommodations and the leisure activities. While driving, the car drives me independently to the destination, I can look at the world news in peace and browse the culinary offer of my destinations, check the hotel reservations of my computer and maybe change. Particularly important are the reservations of the flying, self-controlled helicopters, which let me "fly" and explore the area. I'm sure I'll get information on which of my friends and acquaintances are nearby. This will be a great week for sure!

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.