On 21 December 2012, the world should have ended. Or at least that’s what the Mayan calendar predicted, if apocalyptists were to be believed. Well, they were wrong twice over. Instead, the earth continued to spin, and scientists indicated that although the Mayan calendar foresaw the end of a 400-year cycle, they did not foresee the end of the world.
Therefore, it is one thing to make predictions about the future. However, there are of course many well-founded methods of predicting future trends today. At the moment, this view into the crystal ball is particularly exciting. The world is changing before our eyes due to megatrends such as globalization, climate change and digitalization, so in this article, we will take a look at 10 visions from the year 2040 and see how our lives will change by then.
The future with a vision
In 20 years, will we be traveling to Mars? Will robots really be ever-present in our lives? Just how crowded will the Earth be? Which illnesses will we have defeated? In this article, we will take a look at 10 visions from the future. Stay tuned!
The future has its own favourite material, and that is graphene. This is the material that will bring about the biggest technological revolution in the next twenty years, since it will change our daily lives. It is the thinnest thing that exists, made up of a single layer of atoms connected together like the nodes of a fishing net: a characteristic that makes it foldable and very light and at the same time “stronger than steel”.
