Ordinary mornings in 2042

Anonymous

April 26, 2023

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7am, March 28th 2042:
My personal assistant wakes me up with my favorite workday song and turns on the coffee machine. An ordinary alarm clock would perfectly do the job, but the automatic coffee machine is convenient after all.
While I brush my teeth, my personal assistant displays daily news on the mirror in front of me. Scientists came up with a new way to efficiently store an infinite amount of energy. I guess we are close to reaching complete carbon-neutrality for electricity production (8 years ahead of the plan!).
The next article reports that the 4-day workweek which was implemented in the EU in 2035 shows promising results. People started exercising more, spent more time with their families, attended more cultural events and participated more in local politics. I would tend to confirm it in my own case.
The following article reports how the unified EU-wide social security system enables workers to swiftly move from one country to another with significantly less paperwork and administrative hurdles. I always wondered why it was not implemented earlier.
The next article discusses an ongoing problem in our society. Biotechnology has enabled humans to amplify their physical and cognitive abilities. These technologies became increasingly affordable (though still quite expensive), and it led to a dualistic society. I keep asking myself what we can do about it, probably nothing. We made a lot of progress in guaranteeing and protecting freedoms to choose our life paths, education, careers, whom we love, how we dress, which god we worship and so on and so on. I guess choosing to enhance our abilities is also part of these choices.
The last topic of my daily news review concerns the increase of retirement age. Apparently it's a side effect of the 4-day workweek. I guess I won't be retired before 2085 or something… But at least most bullshit jobs have been taken over by AI and automated systems and I have all the freedom to choose a professional activity that fulfills my life goals.

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We celebrate 2040 by listening to our welcome speech by the President of the European Union. The speech remembers how the European Union grew, how it counterbalanced other demotritic and autocratic states, and how powerful the EU became when, as early as 2025, countries agreed to sacrifice part of their sovereignty by handing over the most important tools of governance to the EU, the fuel we could call the European Federation. There are no more divisions, contradictions and endless discussions on the most important issues of their citizens on economic, financial, educational, defence, diplomatic or other issues. The EU has systematised the verybes that guide every country within its autonimia. By working together, we have achieved incredible results in the field of science, which has led to a significant increase in the gross domestic product, both at the level of the whole federation and by each member individually. The cultural life of all of us has become richer, more diverse and more mature. In this year, 2040, the EU set a new goal to expand its space program and achieve a breakthrough by colonizing suitable but uninhabited planets. Not all EU citizens continued to listen to the welcome speech, but the absolute majority was happy and proud of the opportunity to live in the most friendly democratic (without irony) federation.

I would like to see a future where public transportation is not an issue to get where you want public transportation should also be free. There are houses for everyone even when you get older with conveniences to stay independent as long as possible. The environment becomes greener and greener by residents are common vegetable gardens and everywhere are trees that have fruit and nuts so you can just pick something there is much less imported from abroad because we grow our own vegetables. This is distributed fairly.

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Ordinary mornings in 2042

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