Be the change you want to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi
Hello everyone,
For today I choose topic 3 - 250 years, _Explain what you believe our world and society may be like in 250 years from today. How has humanity progressed or regressed, what's the financial situation, how has the environment coped or changed with the passing of 250 years and what technologies have we gained or lost. Is humanity better off now or then? Explain your answer. You can write a fiction if you like, or give us your personal views.
Once, the Earth looked completely different than it does now: the continents of today, with their familiar contours, did not exist. The entire landmass was one huge mass: a supercontinent.
Then it broke into pieces under the action of tectonic movements deep inside the planet, and the pieces, moving relative to each other, eventually formed the current configuration that we recognise on maps and globes.
But what's even more interesting is this: some scientists say that this hasn't just happened once, but several times, and it will happen again.
In a few hundred years' time(250), the continental geography of the planet will be completely different from what it is now, and the time of supercontinents will come again.
I'm starting the story towards the future, which I'm eager to share with everyone reading this post. As I write this, there are 7,292,282,272 representatives of the species Sapiens sapiens on Earth, plus five new co-planetarians every two seconds. In the following I will present my thoughts on how the world and our society will look like in 250 years.
Energy
I go back to the year 2272, tomorrow, and consider two parameters, energy and food. We know that, following the use of green energy, in 250 years only a non-conventional type of energy will be used. Everyone has photovoltaic panels installed to produce all the energy they need, everything is energy based, cars are electric (it's already time to transition from full electric cars to cars that will be able to fly on certain routes through the city), homes are smart that have all the features controlled from any device.
Food
The greatest shame of human society today is hunger. In 2022, more than 880 million people on earth will go hungry.
In 250 years there will be no more poor people, all people will have jobs that provide enough income to support themselves in every way.
Food and food by-products will no longer exist, all food will be organic and will look completely different than it does now, today we throw away hundreds of pounds of food per month per capita, this will not happen in the future, all food will be concentrated in nutrient bars that will help the earth survive.
Urban planning
In 2272, the planet will be massively urbanised, but cities will go through a phase of massive anthropogenic civilisation, providing earthlings with food and water, public transport will be provided by intelligent technical devices driven by Artificial Intelligence - driverless cars will abolish millions of jobs, but provide security for city dwellers.
Don't be scared that people will be out of work until this in 2272, everyone will be employed, by the care of the very well set up central system.
Residence
Smart, computer-controlled, in many cases, and the workplace. Indeed, many people will be working from home, no more blocking traffic lines, everything will be done by voice from home, including shopping, going to the doctor, everything.
Education
Worldwide, of course, with the big teleworkers operating around the clock on the internet and in its future variants. Classrooms will lose their walls, schools will mostly have workshops and labs, many will be mobile, groups of high calibre teachers will 'float' above children in one country or another, providing educational services.
Education will no longer be what it once was.
Culture
Also worldwide, and rightly so, with all the manuscripts, papyri, books, diplomas, dissertations and doctoral theses, with all the pages of newspapers and magazines, all the radio and television broadcasts and all the websites democratised digitally and offered free to all members of the future civilisation.
Everything related to culture and Radio-TV will no longer exist, and what was will be history and will be studied less and less, because the aim is to forget those times and the desire to adapt to the new needs of society, without history.
Peace and quiet?
These two words will no longer have their place in the year 2272, because the world from then on will be highly monitored with the help of artificial intelligence, and all acts of violence, aggression including verbal ones will be recorded and will be punished very severely, there will no longer be dangerous people, dangerous places, everything will be under the magnifying glass of artificial intelligence.
In conclusion
The world and society of the year 2272 will be highly digitized, will be controlled almost in the interim by artificial intelligence, nothing of what we see and have today will exist anymore (education, culture, radio and TV).
How do you see the world of 2272?
Thank you for taking the time to read the contents of today's post, all images and text are my own.
