Earth 2050: Tag #government

2050 Dubai

The Ambassador City project is being carried out on the banks of the Ittihad canal with a length of about one hundred and thirty kilometers. On both banks of this canal, the embassy of each state of the world has been allocated plots with an area of five square kilometers 1x5, where the kilometer side

# city # government

2040 Frankfurt

A number of high-profile hacking incidents have led to an increasing demand from politicians and the media for a computer lockdown. During the late twenties, Apple was first in requiring a certified Apple Developer account in order to run XCode or any other development tool on MacOS. Windows followed

# gadgets # government # society

2040 Tokyo

Automation will increasingly make the human labor force obsolete. If we want to avoid a horrible dystopia, we need to keep humans in the economy without jobs. UBI (Universal Basic Income) is an obvious solution, but a very flawed one I think. South Korea is working on another solution, "Robot Taxes",

# government # robots

2050 Palermo

By 2050, 97+% of the world's individuals will be participating in, and fully reliant upon, a “Shadow Economy” that is outside a country’s official national economy or even the world's economy. It will address most, if not all, of their economic needs and provide mechanisms whereby

# business # government # society

2040 Beijing

In 2040, authorities in China began the largest centralized collection of data in the history of humanity. The ambitious project, called "Total Quantified Society", is aimed at nothing less than a complete pacification of the “four evils”: crime, disease, ignorance, and poverty. To

# government # society

2050 Alcatraz

Even in the year 2047, there are still prisons on Earth. Detention conditions, however, have much improved, and initiatives aimed at teaching convicts to earn an honest living have entered a new stage of evolution. Robotization has rendered manual labor uneconomic, so detainees stopped felling trees

# AI # government # society

2050 Mexico

Nothing was ever the same after a health crisis that hit our planet in 2020, millions of people died, and global security became a priority issue to safeguard the existence of humanity. Thus, the UN and the WHO prioritized the creation of the World Organization for Security and Humanitarian Welfare

# AI # government # medicine

2030 Great Pacific garbage patch

The large garbage spot in the Pacific Ocean, with an area of3 million sq. km. (1500 x 2000 km) — the size of Greenland, ceased being the concern solely of Greenpeace and other environmental organizations. The global environmental crisis in the neutral waters of the Seven Seas was finally addressed

# government # nature

2030 Mumbai

Having struggled with monstrous social inequality for decades, by 2030 the Indian government is beginning to reap the benefits of the social programs carried out since decolonization. Alongside GDP growth, they have led to a situation in which only a small percentage of the population remains below the

# city # government

2050 Rabat

Morocco had a revolution in the middle of the 21st century. And the king itself organised it - he was the first in the world to transfer most of his power to an artificial intelligence. The system is called «Malaika» - in Islam it is a name of an invisible intelligent creature that carries

# AI # government

2050 Rabat

In 2030, all phosphate reserves used for agricultural fertilization in the world are running out. The phosphate crisis is worse than the oil crises of the 20th century. Iraq and Algeria, large players in the phosphate market, drastically reduce their mining in an attempt to control prices. The

# city # government # nature # space

2050 Shanghai

China becomes one of the first countries to successfully implement provisional Universal Basic Income for "most" of its citizens. The UBI program is funded primarily through taxation of the portion of business revenue generated through industrial, commercial or agricultural automation. UBI

# government

2050 New-York

The world will run on one currency – and you will need an identification chip in order to use it. Everyone will be assigned an identification chip at birth, and this will be our new form of identification and currency. You will not be able to purchase or sell anything without this chip implant.

# government

2050 Brussel

With the improvement of Artificial Intelligence and progress in decoding our own brain humanity will have to face the question of what self-awareness really is. While most of us will have tools and machines helping us out one way or another in our day-to-day lives. Some of those machines will become

# society # government

2040 Islamabad

Other megaprojects include the $10 billion, 1,800 km TAPI gas pipeline connecting four countries – Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India – set to be operational by 2020. Now that the Western sanctions on Iran have been lifted, the revival of Rs 1 trillion, 2,775 km Iran-Pakistan

# energy # government

2030 Islamabad

The thrust of infrastructure development will pick up game-changing pace when the $46 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor projects in energy and rail and road construction start to take shape. The four-phase, fast-track work on three road routes – Western, Central and Eastern – connecting

# government # transport

2050 San-Diego

It all started in the small countries of north-western Europe. The movement began way back in 2011-12 when one of them went without a government for almost 2 years. But it wasn't until 2020 that the first regional parliament there instituted a second chamber of randomly selected citizens to review legislation.

# society # government

2050 Coral island

It's great when you can control the weather: more rain is sent to drying farmland, and big cities use regular "sanitary" rains for cleaning. However, more rain in one country could mean less rain in the other. As soon as hidden methods of weather manipulation are detected, some countries start "wars

# nature # government

2030 Saint Petersburg

The year is 2026. The "state services" portal is evolving. Amendments will be made to Federal Law No. 59-FZ "On the Procedure for Considering Appeals of Citizens of the Russian Federation," Federal Laws No. 19-FZ and No. 20-FZ, and other laws on elections in Russia. The state will create an online feedback-type

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2050

Come 2050, globalization and migration have reached unprecedented levels: everyone on the planet wants the best living environment. And for many that means getting to Mariarnia, a megalopolis located in the once lifeless territory of the Sahara. This is the first UN member country not to guarantee birthright

# government # society