Futurism

Imagining the World in 2120 — a Vision for the Future

Exploring how our grandchildren will live, love, work, play, learn and shop.

Books and films alike are rife in popular culture with the idea that humanity is facing the post-apocalyptic brink of destruction from which there is no return.

Jared Diamond recently expressed in an interview he believes there’s a 49% chance the world will end as we know it by 2050 — I’m not sure whether this is positive or negative. OK, so we have a better than 50:50 chance the world won’t end by 2050. But what about 2051? Or 2052?…

Humanity needs to get self-interested here. Economic production needs to find a way to thrive whilst contributing back to a living sustainable Earth. For some ideas how to do that, read my article:

How to make a business more sustainable

Assuming some semblance of our modern technological advances persist into the future, I have some predictions, based on my experiences as a woman in tech leader, cultural commentator and student of anthropology, that I see…