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Anonymous

March 19, 2025

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I will have been retired for some time in 2040. I'm still doing pretty well for my age.
My pension doesn't allow me to spend a lot of money, so I'm more frugal about it. However, over the years I have managed to update the furnishings in my flat so that I am now more comfortable and better off. I have also bought some more modern appliances which have made my life easier.
I still like to work on my computer, which I replaced a few years ago with a newer one; I also have a smartphone.
In the future, I only wish for good health - both physical and mental. I still like cycling, not the big climbs anymore, but on the flat I am still going. I bought a new road bike a few years ago and I am very happy with it. I also bought an electric mountain bike and it makes it easier to get up the Pohorje hills.
I go hiking in the mountains from time to time, mostly in winter, especially when there is snow, which is not very often and not very much anymore.
Life in the place where I live has changed more or less. People are still friendly. The place has changed more or less. Apart from a few newer buildings and houses and some modernisation of the local roads, there have been no major changes. The road connections to neighbouring places have not been improved much, but finally a section of the road to Rogla has been improved, which was planned about 25 years ago.
The natural environment is also not much different than it was a few years ago, although the impact of climate change has only become more pronounced. There are more hot days in summer and occasional thunderstorms, while winters are milder with little snow, although temperatures occasionally drop below 0.
Overall, life is more expensive. The prices of basic goods and services have gone up, so that there is not much left of the pension for pampering and treats.
I would like to finally hit the lottery ;-).
I am not too interested in the situation in the country, in Europe and in the world. I stopped following the media and politics after the corona. The media has become even more showman-ish in this time, social networks are not even trendy anymore because of untruths and inaccurate information. AI has become, as previously predicted, just a tool to help, and it is not as reliable as expected for anything more.
Cars are still fossil-fuelled. Only cars owned by people with their own solar power plant run on electricity, because electricity has become too expensive and because there are occasional blackouts.
Efforts to make nuclear power cheaper have still not been successful. We will have to wait another 25-50 years.

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Freedom in social networks will allow to follow people's actions, promote responsibility both privately and for officials. We will also have acquired personal responsibility for action not only in reality, but also in social networks, and thus we will be able to communicate productively and interestingly. We will not seek hatred in disputes, but grains of understanding. We will have calmed down the race for material benefits - we will live more slowly, buy less but better quality items. We will be able to see within ourselves and around us the spark of humanity.

on est vraiment sur la mauvaise pente

For me 2050 will have to take up the most important points of the past, a slower life, less technology, less social control, more freedom, a true democracy and not that of today where those who have the most power have never been chosen by the people, a sovereign Belgium that can make its own choices while working with its neighbours, including our Russian friends. More contact between people in cafes and resting, in the cinema, and less life via screen. And in our plate especially keep the quality of our local craftsmen and not the m*** indstrielle transcheese. Let us also return to traditional values and let the woke of the left find themselves in their real place ... in the asylum because they are dangerous And especially not touch my real steack raised with grass by farmers who love their craft. You will have understood ... the very opposite of the desires of the globalists of the EU:-)

zorica.bruski@gmail.com

Zamišljam 2040. godinu kao svijet u kojem je klimatska kriza stavljena pod kontrolu, a obnovljivi izvori energije u potpunosti dominiraju globalnim energetskim sustavom. Odabrao bih temu čiste energije i održivog razvoja. Želio bih da do 2040. godine svijet bude vođen zelenim tehnologijama, gdje su solarne, vjetroelektrane, hidroenergija i napredne baterije standard, a fosilna goriva stvar prošlosti. Gradovi bi bili puni zelenih površina, zgrada s vertikalnim vrtovima i samoodrživih zajednica. Električni automobili, javni prijevoz na vodik ili baterije te pametna infrastruktura omogućili bi minimalnu emisiju CO₂. U ovoj budućnosti, ljudi bi živjeli u harmoniji s okolišem, reciklaža i ponovna upotreba materijala bili bi norma, a klimatske katastrofe smanjene na minimum. Globalna suradnja i razvoj novih tehnologija donijeli bi stabilnost i pravedniju raspodjelu resursa, čime bi se smanjilo siromaštvo i povećala kvaliteta života za sve. To je svijet kakvom težim – održiv, tehnološki napredan, ali prije svega human i u ravnoteži s prirodom.

Fantaziram

Instead of a short maternity mother, she could get a new job that is done from home to be with the child. Or he works part-time on a full-pay basis. In addition, bonuses and benefits for each subsequent child to boost the birth rate a little. The father would be a pillar of the family again. Children do not have to be condemned to spend their childhood in kindergarten. After that, the school system could prepare them for real life. They would learn the basic things necessary for the functioning of the household and the family. And later something from the profession that they are interested in and there is a real demand for it. At least 5 numbing subjects can be removed from regular classes because everything is available online (geography, history...) or the subject itself is unnecessary and boring to most children (musical, visual...). For 99% of things, one query to a chatgpt is enough, I can't imagine how much AI will progress in 15 years, mostly schooling is almost completely unnecessary. If the flow and similar tricks made by fools from children are banned, they could grow into relatively normal people who have a goal and purpose in life instead of just consuming air. They'd be paid at work, and they'd have time to rest. States would not fund all sorts of nonsense and would not absurdly print nonexistent money, we would turn more to the local community and self-sustainability. Pensions would not be needed, there could be some state social system that would allow pensioners to get everything free (up to a certain limit) instead of cash payments. They would live and work in smaller local communities. It's a pretty unrealistic scenario, because all those billions of dollars have to be washed away. There are no men of progress in us when greed and the desire for power reign.

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