I hope that in these times people will live without wars and create a worldwide system that will allow us to manage our planet in a way that will protect its resources for future generations. People living in different parts of our world will live in harmony with nature and will be aware that it is necessary to survive. Countries will cooperate rather than compete with each other.

I want my grandchildren to have a job that they find relevant at the time. I don't want them to work more than they have time to have the leisure time they need. If you hitchhike without stress, you get better health, which will be an economic benefit for the state. Power and greed have become unfashionable and it has been realized that life is too short for wars and enmity.

In 2040, my child will be 19 years old and travelling in an increasingly borderless Europe, on a comprehensive and fast rail network around the world. From the train window, the budding forest planting projects, both in the cities and in the countryside, are flashing by. Grasslands have also already been mainly restored as meadows or forests. Solar panels and windmills flash on the horizon. Cities are home to an increasingly multicultural population whose existence is measured not by production value or income but by a happiness barometer.

I wish/hope for better health and thus welfare in the future. It is both that there is better health and health care, ie both prevention and healing, as well as more information on what you can do yourself. The school system needs more 'practical' learning - about food, health, living conditions and welfare (psychological) etc. Working life must be rethought/restructured - utilization of AI - so that the work is distributed among those who can work, thus lower working hours and more flexibility with home workplace, possibly different job functions (eg: you are both head of one area, but assistant etc. in another) - more equality in working life and economy. Out with cars - free public transportation and better infrastructure as a result. Optimization of living conditions - e.g. healthy food is cheaper, unhealthy 'food' is more expensive, better exercise is less expensive (surely this requires subsidy schemes?) - so people are happier and have more surplus. changing housing types so there are more communities. Lots of dreams and most of it feels like utopia - unfortunately I don't believe any of this will have happened by 2024 (maybe something in the school system) - because governments focus more on money and prestige projects than the things people need most