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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In 2050 we will be living in an extreme climate we will go from heat waves to intense cold...there will be floods and earthquakes all over Europe rather better to say all over the world.... all this because we did not do enough in 2025 and in the years to follow... We did not give importance to what nature was telling us and to the signs of suffering it was sending us...we always thought we could wait and instead here we are reckoning with consequences that are now irreparable...every day is a war bulletin, people dying buried in the rubble of earthquakes, tidal waves,frostbite and even "heat"...crops are only being grown in greenhouses because the seasons no longer exist....the seas have risen covering much of some nations surrounded by the sea... It is no longer the world we knew, but we wanted this one....

In 2040, Europe is prosperous thanks to a dynamic and inspiring business environment. It has done away with pseudo-legislation and pointless and unnecessary bureaucracy, while deregulation has created new industries and technologies - and repatriated much production from the Far East. Technological development is faster in Europe than on any other continent - which in turn has made Europe (the EU) an economic powerhouse. The UK, Norway and Switzerland are closely associated with the EU and participate in the free trade zone and military cooperation. The European armies work closely together to form one of the strongest and most deterrent military powers in the world. This has secured the external borders and deterred aggressors from the rest of the world. European military cooperation has secured Ukraine's freedom and isolated Russia, among other things. The same Russia that has stopped its hybrid war against the EU through a consistent policy of retaliation. Europeans are free people living in healthy democracies with great freedom of speech. Religion has again become a private matter - and the veto of the bully is not tolerated. Jews can once again live in Europe's metropolises without police protection and latent threats of violence. Non-integrable migrants from MENAP countries have left or been deported, further increasing prosperity. Europeans are starting to have children again and fertility rates are steadily increasing. We believe in ourselves and we believe in the future again - and it is the freedom of the individual citizen that is at the center of everything.

After the ruinous economic crisis caused by the European political ruling class corrupted by funds from the Far East, we have regressed to the level of a subsistence economy, where the rich have remained or become even richer, while the working class is suffocated and burdened by economic burdens imposed by laws designed to keep the bureaucratic class (which in fact produces nothing) alive economically by forcing the people to finance the performance of merely bureaucratic acts in the black. the peasant class (in fact agricultural entrepreneurs) live in prosperity as they are privileged (they have land and livestock to survive). Poverty and hardship will lead to the partitioning and management of land by subjects more or less legitimized by residents (protection, food and survival). The spread of depression will lead to the misuse of more or less licit substances (from cheap alcohol to sophisticated drugs for the wealthier classes). a general lack of national pride will cause many things to lose their meaning, and what might have been considered "honorable" will no longer have the same value. In essence there will be a progressive social regression (history teaches: dark times after the fall of the Roman Empire). To those who will still be alive the arduous judgment, even if history will be manipulated to condition minds and social intentions. NCSS: There Will Be No Hope!!!

we came close to disaster but escaped it. Maybe it took the scare to push us to do something. in the 15 years from 2025 to 2040 we realized that the future is not just an abstract idea that someone else will take care of. Sure, things are not perfect, but eventually an agreement was reached among nations to reduce the emissions that are harming the planet. A new consciousness has spread. On the streets, internal combustion cars are increasingly rare, replaced by electric motors or often even bicycles. Technology has moved on but it has also become simpler, with a taste for the essential that was not there in the past so overflowing with frills and driven consumerism. Studies show that global warming is coming under control. The damage has been there and new damage will still be there before the end, but work is being done and successes are being seen. Even in politics having come close to a new world war brought us closer together, first with suspicion, still fearful that this or that other nation was waiting for just the slightest opening for a new attack but then forging bonds. Only 15 years have passed, sure, the process is still in its infancy, but it is well under way. It is not a perfect world. But it is a better world that is improving

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