What do you think life in the UK will be like 30 years from now?

[Blancmangemouse]

The year is 2053. I will hopefully be about to retire. What do you think life will be like?

I remember in my teenage years I became irrationally convinced I would die at 25. I remember reading that young people inexperienced with life can feel this way because they just can’t picture their future selves in an adult world which is unknown to them.

Now mid 30s I am getting similar feelings and it could be because the future seems so uncertain. AI, Climate Crisis, World Powers shifting- etc etc.

So what do you think 2053 will realistically look like?

35, no skin in the game. Going to live my life for now, for the next 30 years. And that’s probably far more environmentally conscious than your average U.K. person. So make of that what you will.

In thirty years time I may or may not still be here as I would be a very old lady!
I think life in the UK will be pretty much the same as it is now because everything comes around and goes around in circles

Not sure if some people are detailing what they think it will be like, or what they hope it will be like on the off chance they get to realize their apocalyptic fantasies.

@TheDailyCarbunkle agree with nearly everything you have said.
I have been married 30+ years. Seems like yesterday.
DNA, mobile phones, Internet, microwaves, electric cars all available since then. We are a big technology users but still enjoy books, newsprint and socialising. If I am still here I hope I can have some great medication for my autoimmune condition otherwise I'm off at 80.

I’m scared to know to be honest.

Massive overcrowding. Widespread unemployment. The kids of today as adults, all with MH diagnoses and spending their lives gaming and expecting to be ‘looked after’ by society.

I honestly dread to think, I’m going to encourage both my kids to go for jobs which mean they can emigrate if they choose to.

“If only humanity would stop being violent and selfish, things would be great.”

Bad news about the human nature changing project…

It is impossible to predict, and most predictions will be very wrong.
I remember being taught just over 30 years ago at school that by now most tasks would be done by robots and the biggest issue for us all would be what leisure activities we did with all our free time.
AI will transform society, but probably not in the ways we think it will.

I'll be gone by 2033 never mind 2053 but I think this ⬆️ is the most likely to be the case

It won't happen. Parents need to work for a start.

Not if they’re all on the dole queue due to cratering employment from automation and the destruction of the economy thru resource and climate degrowth.

That is what was said would happen when I was young because of computers. It hasn't happened.

I’m only in my 30s but I sincerely hope I’m dead by 2053. I can’t understand people who are having children, just seems like utter psychosis at this point.

Equally I don't understand your viewpoint. If a meteor hit the world tomorrow and we all died, I'd still think having children was a good idea. The time I have with them and the happiness we experience isn't contingent on how long they live or how perfect their lives are. We're all going to die at some point, the only choice we have is how much we live while we're here and living requires some measure of hope. If you believe everyone's doomed and there's no point to anything, then why even bother?

Here’s a good write up. Keep in mind, this is still terribly optimistic given actual data on what’s happening now. Anything based on IPCC data is either out-of-date, not factoring in all possible inputs for models used in specialist fields (methane, albedo shifts etc.) or has had political tinkering.

Anyone who thinks climate change “won’t be that bad” hasn’t been paying attention or is a shill for Big Oil.

Well - I’d like to think that my curtains will have arrived from John Lewis by then, but I’m not confident tbh

I thank God I'll hopefully be gone and not leaving any dc.

Transgender / identity politics will have won. No safe spaces for women anymore and mis-gendering (even if by accident) will be a crime with a possible suspended or custodial sentence. Beating someone up for mis-gendering won't be recorded as a crime.

There might be expensive genetically modifying drugs that make you “younger”, live until you are over 150. That is the next stage now. Forget “ageing” natural population … that won’t be the issue anymore. If you are rich, you will be able to choose to live longer.

I suppose the difference is that a meteor is a rare, unknown unpredictable quantity and it’d be possible to have a decent life up until the thing hit. Makes sense to have kids when that’s the threat you’re concerned about.

The devastation that climate change will bring is not rare; unknown, or unpredictable - and it will make the lives of everyone living through it really bloody hard if not miserable. Why you’d have a child who has to spend their entire adult life navigating that is beyond me, but I accept that I’m the outlier because people are doing it.

I think that will just lead to new illnesses emerging that we do not live long enough to get at the moment. The cognitive decline will be pretty much a given for most of those people.

The ones who are 40 or 50 now, yes. But I thin there will be drugs on the market for our kids, or rich people's kids who will be in their 30s or 40s in 30 years time. Things like Alzheimers, the damage is begun in your 30s and 40s. Drugs that can reverse those early years of damage could significant improve cognition into older years.

Kinda envious of their potential ability to see in 10°C of climate warming and the apocalyptic cool zone they’ll get to experience.

The latter, particularly if they've chosen not to have kids or their kids are grown up because then they get the extra benefit of being able to be superior about not subjecting today's school kids to certain death on the arid tundra of Milton Keynes as the scream to the heavens about the selfishness of procreation and their idiot parents.

Milton Keynes is already a hell on earth. Not sure being an arid tundra is much worse.

I truly believe that humanity will be ok.

Humanity is fine because we destroy everything else...

Having said that the Debbie downers on this thread saying we're all fucked are bloody annoying