Year 2050: Will it be an amazing year?

By Yuly Madrid Ortega

Course 8

Nowadays, we have a modern world with fantastic technological advances. We live in comfortable e-houses with access to Internet, cell phones and computers, and all types of communication devices.

How is the world that we know today going to be in the year 2050? To answer this question, it is necessary to think about some aspects like communication, healthy habits, and transportation.

Communication and technology

It will be a wonderful part of life. We are going to have faster cell phones with apps to control every electronic machine at home. Every year, communication is going to be faster and impersonal. Everybody is going to be alone, with little time for real relationships. People are going to have “bubble worlds”: you and your virtual space. Technology is going to be “The Queen”.

Healthy habits: Food, exercise and pollution

Food is going to be more artificial and light than it is now. The Modern world is going to require another type of diet.

Our present environment and lifestyles let us see how we’re going to live in 2050 and beyond. Nowadays we do little effort to communicate and even to run our daily errands. If we keep living at this pace, we’ll be fat people paying our bills and going to work from our homes. The Queen we’ll control us in the form of laptops and cell phones (not so different from these days –scary!–).

Global warming will make agriculture and everyday life tougher. We might go through food shortages due to the increase in UV rays. We’ll hide from the sun and eventually our lives will happen indoors. This combination of selected food and lack of sun, combined with little exercise will contribute to changes in our appearance.

We might act now, making small changes to prevent this possible future, but here’s the truth: humanity will never learn.