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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I live in the countryside.There the birds sing and the air is clean to breathe.I live in a small wooden house and there a small sauna cottage.I grow mainly my own food,in my small garden.The small village shop is some distance away.There are also the necessary services,what is now needed.Bank,gasoline station,kiosk,doctor and medical care, etc. A little further is the city,where we have more extensive services.We go to some kind of exchange economy among our neighbours.Someone raises cattle,where we get meat.Someone likes a chicken, where we get eggs.Someone cultivates grain and vegetables,flowers,berries, etc. Someone knows how to craft and sew.Work is remote work or at least partially.Life is peaceful, the air is clean and fresh,health is good from clean food and the exercise brought about by its upbringing, as well as a lifestyle that produces basic exercise.Maybe there could be something for pets,dogs and cats.This would be ideal for life,without hurry and stress.Without diseases and depression.

75 years old and still good health to be able to see my happy son, who is in a business he loves, and two grandchildren. We redeemed my in-laws' house, a bloody project that went through and for which I fought to the death. I am still owed for what they took from me, knowingly and unknowingly, but all's well that ends well. We are finally out of the cage of the European Union, the state is back to being a state, taking care of domestic consumption, welfare, we have our own new currency; we consume what we produce and we have nationalized banks and many large enterprises. We are the privileged partners of Russia from which we import gas at favorable prices. The future now speaks Italian.

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The year is 2040, and many people have already stocked up on self-driving cars. Unfortunately not everyone can afford them because although they are already widely available the price is exorbitant in my opinion. And as for the curability of cancer, we have a super drug that is able to cure it. If we look back, finally there are no more wars in the world. Many things have been neutralized like air pollution.

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