My future looks like this. The doctors, the scientists, the researchers find a cure for fibromyalgia and osteoporosis. My health will be fine in 2040. People have also realized their mistakes and respect nature and animals. The environment has recovered. You can breathe good air all over the world. Unfortunately, some animal species have died, but humans have ensured that many animal species have survived. There are hardly any cars or airplanes left. It will be a beautiful world in which every living creature enjoys living.

I hope that I am still alive in 2040, when I will be 85, I don't know what to expect. I hope that my husband and I will still both be here and that health care will perhaps be a little better than it is now. I hope that there will no longer be war or famine anywhere, that everyone will be back in their own country and that the Netherlands will once again be for the Dutch and that everything will go well for everyone.that if someone does something that really cannot be done, he or she will also be punished and that justice will take its course, that you will really be a perpetrator and no longer a suspect, even though people have seen it happen; there is so much injustice now.

It's 2040. We are no longer afraid of Artificial Intelligence because we have found that it helps us to diagnose diseases and identify cures, to pollute less and to find materials and processes that are really able to cut emissions, indeed that in their production they can sequester CO2. We are no longer just talking theoretically about green and sustainability and circular economy: we are really making a difference and our cities are finally clean and welcoming, they are cities for people, where green is not just maquillage but is wanted, lived and cared for with awareness and care and water (waterways) is a friendly and positive component. People, even the common and inexperienced ones, have learned to use Social Media with respect, they know English and no one dares to use aggressive tones anymore. Have we grown up? Perhaps.

I wish it was like it used to be, but unfortunately, I don't believe that times will return to what they were 25 years ago. In 2040, I see a world of speeding people caught up in phones without which they can't do any of the smallest things. On the other hand, I see people fighting for each day. The rich versus the very poor. Clogged with responsibilities, worried about all the duties they will be saddled with not so much by virtue of living and running a home o but imposed by the state. Taxes slicing our income for more and more reasons. Tired and overworked people trying to pay for everything that comes their way. Wanting them to have some pleasure left over. Constantly worrying about adjusting even their homes to meet the requirements placed on them, struggling for.any help with what is imposed on us from above. Overworked-forced to supplements ania more and more vitamins, because those consumed in food are not enough to replenish the supply when working so hard. And nature-more and more disappearing from our sight. Resources used to the maximum. Places of former exploitation left behind, destroyed, neglected.