What will our planet be like in 2060? Newton says “damaged”

Making predictions for the future has a charm. It gives you a sense of omnipotence. One may think, “Since I can predict the future, why not do something to define it and change it?” In recent years, where we stand and where we are, we hear and read how ominous the immediate future of humanity is now: Climate crisiscoronavirus and possible new pandemic virus, war conflicts with the risk of a nuclear accident (good time like war in Ukraine).

We live in the middle of a turning point in history.

What will happen to the world after him coronavirus; Although it is impossible to know for sure, one thing is clear: It will be a long game and we are currently in the process of establishing the “new regularity”. Vaccines have come and gone and now everyone is talking about how to learn to live in a hybrid state in parallel with the virus.

The truth is that we may be in the middle of a transition to a society where almost all life (will) happen online. Shopping, dating, entertainment, socializing, work, and even dating will all be affected.

Towards the end of 2021, an OECD study filled the Greek government staff with a certain optimism, which hurried to make predictions for a huge reduction of the Greek debt by 2060. So we were tempted to become a little Nostradamus and to outline the what will our life be like in 38 years from now and if in the end it makes sense to worry about debt reduction

Newton saw things very darkly

Isaac Newton was a legendary scientist, best known for establishing the laws of gravity. But in his spare time, he engaged in experiments worthy of Voldemort. Like the villain of “Harry Potter”, the Newton actively sought the philosophical stone, a mystical tool that allows ordinary mortals to turn any object into silver or gold and has the power to bestow eternal life.

In the book “Isaac Newton: The Asshole Who Reinvented The Universe”, author Florian Freistetter describes Newton as a reckless genius without social skills and cruel behavior, who, despite his scientific acumen, was also devoted to alchemy.

He managed to survive many dangerous experiments, many of which he carried out on his own. Newton, meanwhile, delved deeper into alchemy, choosing the pseudonym Jehovah Sanctus Unus – or “holy god” – to use among his alchemical colleagues. He even dared to predict when the end of the world could come.

Based on extensive study of biblical texts, he estimated that the world would “zero” in 2060, when “the Kingdom of God” would prevail on Earth, writes Freistetter. Newton, meanwhile, blasted other prophets of doom who foretold a more immediate revelation. “It may end later, but I see no reason for it to end sooner,” Newton said boldly.

“Newton devoted a great deal of time to the study of religious texts and sought to establish a chronology of past events in order to classify and classify all these stories,” says Freistetter. “He was convinced that future events were already predetermined by God. From the Bible, Newton quoted some “prophetic” time periods. For him, in 2060 [θα ήταν] a new beginning – perhaps accompanied by war and disaster, but ultimately it would be the beginning of a new divine age “.

To calm down, however, there is no scientifically substantiated view that indicates that the planet will indeed reset in 2060.

How many of us will live on the planet

In 2022 we are 7.95 billion people living on Earth. Together with those who have died, some 117 billion people have been born since the dawn of modern humanity. This means that those of us who live now represent about 6.8% of all people who have ever lived.

We are mammals. One way to think about how long we can survive is to ask ourselves how long other mammals survive. It turns out that the lifespan of a typical mammalian species is about 1 million years. Let us think of a future in which humanity will exist for 1 million years: 200,000 years are already behind us, so there will still be 800,000 years ahead of us.

Let’s think of a scenario in which the population will stabilize at 11 billion people (based on UN forecasts for the end of the century) and in which the average life expectancy will increase to 88 years. In such a future, there would be 100 trillion people in life for the next 800,000 years.

In terms of life expectancy within the next 50 years, the average life expectancy will be 100 years. “We will be able to do the same for humans,” said Richard Miller, a professor at the University of Michigan. So with regular injections, the centenarians will be as strong as the 60-year-olds today.

At the same time, births will decrease. Research shows that in 2060 in the developed countries, at least, where we are still included, people over 85 will numerically equal infants under 5, with what this may mean for demographics, insurance, retirement, etc. . Japan is expected to be the champion of the elderly where 40% of the population will have retired by then.

What will we eat

As it is understood from the above numbers, the food of humanity is a key part of the survival of the species. In general, the future will be delicious, if nothing else for the reason that more and more people will be looking for food with taste and nutrition and food with history. And it will be based on fruits and vegetables.

There is no going back to the food we grew up with in the 1970s and 1980s, which was about over-processed and packaged foods. More specifically, the future is going to bring crop growers into the debate. We are more in tune with where and how our food is grown, but we have turned a blind eye to the source of it all: the seeds. Nurseries, the people who create new varieties of fruits, vegetables and cereals, are the real architects of our food system.

Unfortunately, much of their work is dictated by a handful of farm giants who control the seed industry. This means that the choice for yield and uniformity is above all – a seed planted in New York is expected to have the same yield as that planted in Mexico or even China. In the future, we will breed fruits and vegetables that are better suited to their local ecology, that are better adapted to organic farming systems and of course that taste better.

Also meat consumption is expected to have decreased or will simply change to a “hybrid form”.

How to make a living

The number of connected devices per person will have reached 31. The number of devices connected to the Internet will exceed 313 trillion. Finally, 96% of the people on Earth will have their own means of transportation. Unless something is changed radically, the rich will continue to be richer and the poor, poorer, while migration flows due to misery, war or environmental disaster will be so high that no one will be able to control them.

We are in the year 2060. Most jobs are automated and new jobs do not exist. Because many people are now unemployed and unable to find work due to the automation of artificial intelligence, universal basic income (UBI) is inevitably introduced as a measure to support basic needs.

The climate change crisis and the fear of future virus pandemics are permanently locking people in their homes. Thus, they withdraw to the online world to remain rational and become even more alienated from the physical world.

Google, in turn, is starting to pay its users to create content. Even today, making money from your data and content is something that is already being discussed. As people rightly become more and more stingy about their privacy (thanks to the Cambridge Analytica scandal), the long-term future for the traditional data vendor looks bleak.

Data, Metaverse and virtual money may have prevailed over traditional ways of earning money. All this, of course, must be taken into account in the light of the fact that the climate crisis will have affected the world temperature and thus in 2060 it will have risen by 4 degrees. The consequences for production in much of the world will be catastrophic, plus that many islands and coastal areas will be in danger of sinking completely due to rising water levels up to three meters.

Extraterrestrial life and colonization of other planets

In recent years we have witnessed a race to explore space which runs with broken brakes. Every rich person on this planet uses a rocket to orbit the Earth. For many scientists, this is a trajectory of the future

We will have quantum computers with unlimited memory and capabilities, while communication with them will be interactive. Holograms will be commonplace, most gadgets will be smaller – almost invisible – and more comprehensive, the home will be the new office.

PCs, tablets or smartphones most likely will not be necessary since we carry the new devices on us, inside us or somewhere in our “smart” clothes. We will guide computers with our thinking, we may have managed to communicate with animals through them.

However, because the numbers for how many people will live on the planet in 2060 are not very optimistic, many scientists talk about its famous settlement. planet Mars. Colonization on Mars that began timidly in the late 2020s will already count some three decades of a very difficult extraterrestrial life. Of course, if we assume that the first attempt was successful.

Some scientists, however, predict that the biggest discovery in the next 50 years will be the discovery of extraterrestrial beings. NASA Dr Chris McKay says: “We can find evidence
extraterrestrial life frozen in the ancient permanent frost on Mars. Scientists hope that the current interest in space missions on this planet means that there is every chance that this will become a reality. Dr. McKay also believes that evidence of extraterrestrial life can be found even here on Earth.