2025-2030 in .08.2022

Half of the world's population could be living in areas facing water scarcity by as early as 2025. Some 700 million people could be displaced by intense water scarcity by 2030. By 2040, roughly 1 in 4 children worldwide will be living in areas of extremely high water stress. The beginning of control over the situation will lead to the beginning of the use of cloud seeding, thus opening a range of precedents for various weather scenarios.

2025-2030 in .08.2022

What remains of the lower middle class will look alone and with other families to group land to make a kind of fully self-sufficient Eco-Village/Eco Communities with modern wood houses contrutions and Nestron house types without cables with the grid but integrated producing her own electric power and harvesting water and the internet officialy turned a an essential good of first necessity and people are now using bioluminescence plants in her home and gardens. What such beautiful landscapes...

2025-2030 in .08.2022

The Mobile data on/off button on android platform will stop exist and internet turns from an essential good to a good of first necessity.

2030's in .08.2022

Marked by a rapid, worldwide shift towards clean energy, algae biofuel and other renewable sources – aided by startling breakthroughs in nanotechnology. This was followed by progress in nuclear and fusion, though widespread adoption would have to wait until later decades. Despite this, conflict was now brewing around much of the world. Africa, Asia and other regions were suffering mightily due to food shortages and a growing influx of refugees affected by climate change, resource wars and political instability. Exponential advances in computing power – in parallel with genetics, nanotechnology and robotics – continued into the 2040s, leading to what many called the birth of "transhumanism". Ever smaller, more complex and sophisticated devices were becoming implantable and integrated within the human body – able to combat disease, enhance the senses and provide entertainment or communication in ways that simply were not possible before. Geopolitics was undergoing a revolution too, with India now surpassing the U.S. in terms of economic power and even threatening to overtake China in the near future.

Mankind began to escape the confines of its crowded home planet with a permanent colony on Mars in the 2050s. Even greater advances in computing power saw AI beginning to play a major role in business and government decisions. Economic growth was now under severe strain, however, due to ecological impacts, resource scarcity, demographic trends, technological unemployment and other factors.

2030's in .01.2023  Global warming continues to increase

Global warming in 2030 has now reached 1.3°C (2.3°F) above the mid-20th century average and continues to increase.* During the next El Niño, it will exceed the 1.5°C (2.7°F) threshold agreed at the Paris Climate Accords in 2015. Recent years have seen unprecedented heatwaves, droughts, floods, wildfires, tropical cyclones, and other disasters around the world.

Amid the deepening sense of urgency, environmental activism is now ramping up to levels never seen before. This includes the direct targeting and sabotage of fossil fuel infrastructure, alongside increasingly vociferous campaigns to trigger changes in public behaviour and lifestyles. In the early 2020s, protest actions had already been subject to increasing criminalisation in some countries. With more radicalised green movements having since emerged, these measures are now going a step further to classify some groups as outright terrorist organisations. In South America and other regions, environmental activists who stand in the way of agribusiness, hydroelectric dams, mining, and logging are being murdered in greater numbers than ever.

Following the COVID-19 pandemic, worldwide greenhouse gas emissions had seen a temporary dip. From a record high of 52 gigatonnes (Gt) of CO2 equivalent (meaning the aggregate of CO2, CH4, N2O and F-gases), they fell below 49.5 Gt in 2020. However, growth resumed in subsequent years and soon rebounded to pre-pandemic levels. World leaders announced more ambitious climate targets, while simultaneously approving new oil and gas projects and continuing to provide enormous subsidies to the fossil fuel industry.

Although progress has been made in slowing the rate of emissions – with signs that a peak may now be approaching – they continue to rise in 2030. Pledges at climate summits have proven to be insufficient for limiting the global average temperature to a sustainable level. The world remains on track for 2°C of warming by the 2040s and nearly 3°C later in the century.

The decarbonisation of the world's various economic sectors has been uneven. Some areas have seen exponential improvement – such as the rapid adoption of solar PV, wind power, electric vehicles (EVs), and charging stations. Some governments have now phased out coal, while renewables have expanded to cover a majority of electrical generation, in combination with utility-scale batteries and/or nuclear. Rooftop solar, for example, is now mandatory on all new buildings in some countries. Likewise, the EV market has seen phenomenal growth and is on the verge of surpassing traditional ICE cars in terms of global sales.

Another promising field is direct air capture (DAC), to create "negative" emissions. Early prototypes in the 2010s demonstrated that a few tonnes each day could be captured and stored safely. Substantial further investment, including billions of dollars from both private interests and government funding, led to a rapid scaling up. By 2030, some companies have achieved megatonne-scale DAC and are now planning for gigatonnes of negative emissions by 2050.

But in other areas of the economy, progress has been stagnant. For instance, ruminant meat consumption is still very high, in part due to growing consumer demand in emerging economies. Plant-based meats have risen in popularity, but are nowhere near the level needed to sufficiently reduce emissions from the agricultural sector. Meanwhile, cultured (or "lab-grown") meats, while showing potential for exponential growth, are still at the early stages of market adoption. They have also been drawn into the Anglosphere's culture wars, with debates over "natural vs unnatural" that are similar to concerns over GM foods, as well as the financial impact on local ranchers.

Other areas with insufficient progress include the energy intensity of residential and commercial buildings, the carbon intensity of industrial processes such as steelmaking and cement production, the aviation sector, and the general financing of climate change initiatives around the world. For many countries, the vague wording of Net Zero strategies has led to delays in overall emissions reductions.

The share of greenhouse gas emissions with carbon pricing has about doubled since 2020 but still accounts for only 40% of the total. The two main forms of this pricing system are carbon taxing and cap-and-trade programs. A third concept has recently been proposed: a "carbon coin"* or similar currency to encourage a new global market for carbon removal. If paired with carbon taxes, the idea would be that the burning of carbon is taxed, while sequestering carbon is rewarded. To implement the policy and to manage supply and demand (as well as independently verifying each ton of negative emissions) requires a supranational authority – one of its key functions being to coordinate the operations of major central banks in order to give the carbon currency a guaranteed floor price. For now, this is too big a step for most nations to accept, with concerns over inflation and the effects on domestic currencies. However, discussions are resumed in later years as the global environmental situation deteriorates.

Overall, the world in 2030 is more climate-aware and more supporting of green policies than ever – but still lacking the urgency and scale of actions needed to prevent dangerous climate change.

2030's in .02.2023  The first samples from Mars are returned to Earth 

In February 2021, NASA's Perseverance rover landed in Jezero Crater on Mars. Studies indicated this 49 km (30.4 mi) diameter crater contained a lake in the distant past, reaching as deep as 250 m (820 ft). A fan-delta deposit rich in clays showed that the lake existed when valley networks formed on Mars, making it a geologically rich site.

The rover's goals included looking for ancient Martian environments able to support life, seeking evidence of former microbial life existing in those environments, collecting rock and soil samples, and testing oxygen production from Mars' atmosphere to prepare for future crewed missions. To accomplish all this, it carried seven primary payload instruments, 19 cameras, and two microphones. A mini-helicopter called Ingenuity performed aerial scouting ahead of the rover to seek areas of interest for possible examination.

Initially, the rover explored the crater's floor, studying igneous rock. It later investigated sedimentary rocks of the accompanying delta, formed when particles of various sizes settled in the once-watery region. In September 2022, the rover identified a strong signal of organic matter – the building blocks of life and a potential biosignature – in the highest concentration yet seen during its mission.*

Perseverance had capacity for up to 43 samples, obtained via its Sample Caching System. Built using more than 3,000 individual parts, NASA described this automated device as "the most complicated, most sophisticated mechanism that we have ever built, tested and readied for spaceflight." After being filled, each of the sample tubes would be hermetically sealed to ensure that its contents survived for an indeterminate amount of time on the Martian surface and withstood the eventual return to Earth. The seal had to be made without contaminating the sample, so no adhesives or heat could be used.

Following the Perseverance rover, two other missions arrived at Mars later in the decade: an Earth Return Orbiter (ERO) and Sample Retrieval Lander (SRL), launched in 2027 and 2028, respectively. The SRL carried a small rocket (the Mars Ascent Vehicle), a robotic arm, and two helicopters similar to Ingenuity providing a secondary capability for retrieving the cached samples. After touching down nearby and being rendezvoused with Perseverance, the SRL used its robotic arm, developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) to place each tube aboard the Mars Ascent Vehicle before its blast off into space – the first rocket to ever launch from the surface of another planet. The orbiting ERO, also developed by ESA, then captured and enclosed the samples inside a highly secure containment capsule (the Earth Entry System), before making the 140 million mile (225 million km) journey back home.

In 2030, these samples are finally being returned to Earth, almost 10 years after the launch of Mars 2020. Obtaining samples from the Martian surface has been a dream of scientists for decades. The rocks and soil can be analysed in far greater detail with specialised laboratory equipment on Earth, as opposed to using the rover's more limited instruments.

2032's in .02.2023  Global warming hits 2.0°C  

Panic is now setting in, as the impacts of climate change become ever even more obvious – with increasingly frequent, record-breaking disasters throughout much of the world, accompanied by disrupted supply chains, falling crop yields, and surging numbers of displaced refugees. With its goal of 1.5°C now largely abandoned, the international community is focused on adaptation efforts and limiting the rise as much as possible. 

2031's in .03.2023  ISS is deorbited

The International Space Station (ISS), which first became operational in November 2000, has now reached the end of its lifespan. Originally intended to last for only 15 years, it continued to defy expectations through the late 2010s and into the 2020s. Multiple extensions of the planned time in orbit, along with additional modules and upgrades, meant that it would endure for twice the length of its earlier timeline. By far the largest human-made object in space, the ISS was visible to the naked eye from Earth as it completed its 16 daily orbits, varying between 418 km and 422 km above the Earth's surface. With its microgravity environment, the ISS yielded breakthroughs in medicine and biotechnology, materials science, and other areas of research. It helped to monitor Earth's ecosystems and natural disasters in real time. It also provided testing of future spacecraft technologies and a place to study the health effects of long-term space flight – essential for enabling the future human exploration of the Solar System.

However, the ISS accumulated damage over the long term, with solar radiation and temperature extremes gradually taking their toll. The daily expansion and contraction of materials, charring of glass, repeated docking and undocking of spacecraft, all weakened the station's integrity. High-speed collisions with space junk also posed a significant and growing threat.

A previous plan by NASA had proposed ending the ISS by 2028. But in 2022, the Biden administration extended this timeline to 2031. The ISS would be steered towards a remote part of the Pacific Ocean known as Point Nemo, a spacecraft "graveyard" and the furthest known location from civilisation.

In late 2030, the ISS is gently decelerated by onboard thrusters, causing its altitude to gradually decrease over the course of a few months. The final part of the descent is much faster and occurs in January 2031.* As it re-enters the atmosphere, the large solar arrays are the first components to burn away, followed by the upper modules and then the remaining structure below. The ISS is four times the size of Mir, which underwent a similar manoeuvre in 2001.

As of 2022, NASA had spent $3.1 billion a year on the space station program, with more than $1.3 billion going to operations of the station and research performed there, and $1.8 billion on crew and cargo transportation. The retirement of the station therefore provides major cost savings for NASA and enables the agency to focus on other areas.

By 2031, commercial space platforms are replacing the ISS as a venue for scientific research and collaboration. Another major deorbit occurs the following year when China retires Tiangong, its national space station.

2031's in .04.2023  Alot of Bangkok abandoned due to flooding

Bangkok, with a population of over 12 million, has been sinking underwater for decades. By the early 2030s, it is facing a disaster of epic scale, with much of the city being abandoned.

This has occurred for various different reasons. First and foremost, the city is built on clay. When originally settled, the region was just swampy coastline, but today it is covered by skyscrapers, highways and urban development. The enormous weight of all this concrete and steel has been pushing down on the soft clay beneath, causing the soils to descend by up to 5.3cm per year. By 2010, part of the megalopolis was already under sea level, a trend that would only become worse in the following decades.

The illegal tapping of groundwater has been another major factor. Many of the city's residents have been continuously pumping up groundwater – both for their own use and to sell as a commodity – removing a natural layer and resulting in further destabilisation of the soil.

Rising sea levels due to global warming have been yet another factor, eroding the coastline at a rate of 4cm a year, while the increasing severity of monsoon rains has led to longer and more devastating floods.

The explosive growth of Bangkok in recent decades (making it one of the fastest growing places in southeast Asia) has dealt a serious blow to the city's infrastructure. Areas of land that had in the early 20th century been used to absorb flood waters had vast suburbs and business districts built over them. Canals were filled in to make way for the rapid urbanisation of the Chao Praya River Delta. The weight of the city grew and grew, to the point where the soft soil it was built upon could simply no longer support it.

By the early 2030s, large portions of the megalopolis are well below sea level. The government's response during this time has proven inadequate, a lack of clear policy doing little to help the overall situation,* while sea walls have been almost useless due to increasing erosion of the shore. The lowering of the city, combined with rising sea levels (over 20cm higher than in 2000), has resulted in whole districts of Bangkok being permanently abandoned. Over a million buildings, the majority residential, are rendered uninhabitable, forcing their occupants to move further inland.

Many areas which have yet to be fully claimed by the sea have also been evacuated, as the regularity of flooding proved too costly for many. Shantytowns and refugee camps are forming outside the city, while the government struggles to adjust as the capital sinks. Thailand as a whole is going through a period of almost unimaginable stress at this time, a result of such huge population displacement. The political, economic and social upheaval in the region is having a significant impact on global GDP.

Efforts are underway to save Bangkok's numerous historical monuments and artifacts, with some temples being moved inland and reconstructed in their entirety. Due to the scale of this disaster, however, much is lost.

In the coming years, the situation for Bangkok will only worsen as more and more of the city is permanently flooded. By the end of this century, the entire city will be abandoned.

2031's in .05.2023  Web 4.0 and the transforming

Further convergence of the online and physical worlds has led to the emergence of "Web 4.0" – the next generation of internet. Semantic analysing programs, having evolved into stronger AI, now perform a huge range of automated tasks for business, government and consumers. Running on massively parallel networks, these applications hunt for textual and visual data – combining the most subtle capabilities of humans (such as pattern recognition) with ways in which machines are already vastly superior (such as speed and memory).

In addition to serving as highly advanced search engines, they are playing a major function in the real world – gathering information from the array of sensors, cameras and other tracking devices now present in the environment, on vehicles, and even on people themselves.

Although privacy and civil liberties issues are being raised, this new generation of IT promises to bring enormous benefits to society. Crimes are faster and easier to solve thanks to these intelligent virtual agents; transport and logistics are smoother and more efficient; resources can be managed and distributed more accurately.

In addition, practically every physical document in existence has now been digitally encoded, backed up and archived online. This includes full copies of all books, journals, manuscripts and other literature ever published – forming a complete repository of human knowledge going back thousands of years. These documents can be retrieved and analysed using real-time speech commands, translated from any of the world's 6,000 languages and accessed via 3D holographic imaging.

Web 4.0 is also democratising the Internet more than ever before. News agencies are finding themselves increasingly outmoded by bloggers and other social media when it comes to speed and accuracy of information.

2031's in .06.2023  Much of Bangkok is being abandoned due to flooding 

Bangkok, with a population of over 12 million, has been sinking underwater for decades. By the early 2030s, it is facing a disaster of epic scale, with much of the city being abandoned.

This has occurred for various different reasons. First and foremost, the city is built on clay. When originally settled, the region was just swampy coastline, but today it is covered by skyscrapers, highways and urban development. The enormous weight of all this concrete and steel has been pushing down on the soft clay beneath, causing the soils to descend by up to 5.3cm per year. By 2010, part of the megalopolis was already under sea level, a trend that would only become worse in the following decades.

The illegal tapping of groundwater has been another major factor. Many of the city's residents have been continuously pumping up groundwater – both for their own use and to sell as a commodity – removing a natural layer and resulting in further destabilisation of the soil.

Rising sea levels due to global warming have been yet another factor, eroding the coastline at a rate of 4cm a year, while the increasing severity of monsoon rains has led to longer and more devastating floods.

The explosive growth of Bangkok in recent decades (making it one of the fastest growing places in southeast Asia) has dealt a serious blow to the city's infrastructure. Areas of land that had in the early 20th century been used to absorb flood waters had vast suburbs and business districts built over them. Canals were filled in to make way for the rapid urbanisation of the Chao Praya River Delta. The weight of the city grew and grew, to the point where the soft soil it was built upon could simply no longer support it.

By the early 2030s, large portions of the megalopolis are well below sea level. The government's response during this time has proven inadequate, a lack of clear policy doing little to help the overall situation,* while sea walls have been almost useless due to increasing erosion of the shore. The lowering of the city, combined with rising sea levels (over 20cm higher than in 2000), has resulted in whole districts of Bangkok being permanently abandoned. Over a million buildings, the majority residential, are rendered uninhabitable, forcing their occupants to move further inland.

Many areas which have yet to be fully claimed by the sea have also been evacuated, as the regularity of flooding proved too costly for many. Shantytowns and refugee camps are forming outside the city, while the government struggles to adjust as the capital sinks. Thailand as a whole is going through a period of almost unimaginable stress at this time, a result of such huge population displacement. The political, economic and social upheaval in the region is having a significant impact on global GDP.

Efforts are underway to save Bangkok's numerous historical monuments and artifacts, with some temples being moved inland and reconstructed in their entirety. Due to the scale of this disaster, however, much is lost.

In the coming years, the situation for Bangkok will only worsen as more and more of the city is permanently flooded. By the end of this century, the entire city will be abandoned.

2035's in .07.2023  Establishment of the first permanent lunar base  

By the latter half of this decade, government and private ventures have created a permanent human presence on the Moon. This marks a significant milestone during a period of accelerated development in space, which has seen major technological advancements and the increased commercialisation of space flight.

From the late 2000s onwards, NASA had begun to focus its attention on a return to the Moon. The agency initiated development of a huge new rocket known as the Space Launch System (SLS), the largest since the Apollo era, and a crewed spacecraft called Orion. Meanwhile, other national space agencies revealed their long-term plans to explore the Moon. This occurred in parallel with a major increase in commercial developments, such as the reusable Falcon and Starship rockets of SpaceX, as well as Blue Origin and others.

By the late 2020s, NASA and other agencies had constructed a station in lunar orbit. Subsequently, they deployed a number of robotic platforms for remote lunar surface operations. The first crewed base on the lunar surface would follow during the mid-late 2030s – led by NASA but with contributions from the European Space Agency (ESA), Canadian Space Agency (CSA), and others, alongside commercial companies.

3D printing is making construction much cheaper and easier, with new tools, spare parts and even components for entire buildings forged using the lunar regolith as a material. The location of this base – in the southern polar region – provides the advantages of both (a) permanently illuminated spots for near-continuous solar power, and (b) nearby access to permanently shadowed craters known to contain water and other volatiles. The initial base is gradually expanded over subsequent decades to include new modules and even greenhouses for food production.

In addition to Western space agencies, China is preparing its own separate lunar base, in collaboration with Roscosmos. Its temporary robotic station will soon be upgraded for longer-term human operations from 2035 to 2045.

2030's in .11.2023 The Orbital Reef is operational   

The Orbital Reef is a low Earth orbit (LEO) space station designed by Blue Origin and Sierra Nevada Corporation,** intended for commercial space activities and space tourism uses. Several other partners are involved, including Arizona State University, Boeing, Genesis Engineering Solutions, and Redwire Space.

Blue Origin, Sierra Nevada Corporation and their partners announced preliminary plans in October 2021 – just a few days after the revealing of a similar project called Starlab, being developed by a different set of companies. While Starlab had a volume of 340m³ and support for up to four people, the Orbital Reef's design featured a much larger internal space of 830m³, supporting up to 10 occupants in futuristic modules with huge windows.

Its large size would allow the Orbital Reef to host a wide range of activities, such as scientific research, industrial manufacturing, exploration system development and exotic hospitality. The zero G environment and access to a vacuum could also provide filming opportunities for advertising and movies.

The space station flies in a 500 km (310 mi) orbit, slightly above the International Space Station (ISS). The latter is reaching the end of its lifespan as the 2020s draw to a close. NASA had extended its retirement date from 2025 to 2029 and then again to 2030. The agency is now preparing for a transition to a commercial replacement with lower costs, more flexibility, and improved technology. Blue Origin used its recently developed heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle – the New Glenn – for assembling the Orbital Reef's core modules and utility systems. The remaining structures are now being fitted as the station becomes fully operational. Together, the Orbital Reef and smaller Starlab are able to fully replace the internal volume of the ISS, with funding from NASA.

In addition to the station itself, a new suitless "Single Person Spacecraft" has been developed by partner Genesis Engineering, as an alternative to traditional spacesuits used during spacewalks. Those who visit the Orbital Reef can take advantage of this pod-like craft with its greater manoeuvrability, two robotic arms and larger field of view.

2040's in .12.2023   Future summary and some points

Humanity is at a crossroads. Nearly half of the Amazon rainforest has been deforested. Wildfires have tripled in some regions. Traditional wine industries have been severely altered by climate change. Fish body size has declined by nearly a quarter. Hi-tech, intelligent buildings are revolutionising the urban landscape. Smaller, safer, hi-tech automobiles. Major advances in air travel comfort with continent-wide supergrids providing much of the world's energy needs. China completes the largest water diversion project in history and Japan's population falls below 100 million with the U.S. population reaching 400 million. An interstellar radio message arrives at Gliese 777 and the UK vehicle plates run out of numbers. The Suburban Rail Loop is operational in Melbourne and it's Launched the X-ray Great Observatory.

Turn available the Genetically engineered "designer babies" for the rich and Australia is the first country eliminating cervical cancer behing available for everyone Handheld MRI scanners.

Smart clothing is a trillion-dollar industry and the vast majority of countries have achieved democracy.

Rainfall intensity has increased by 20% and there is the Collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC)  with the end of the oil age having now Mars a permanent human presence.