dominated by the elderly communities
In 2060, the world is dominated by the elderly communities. The cohort life expectancy at birth reaches nearly 100 years for females in Europe and most of the developed worlds.
People’s working hours starts and ends much earlier, leaving large quantities of unstructured times where people spend more time nourishing the young, entertaining themselves, and working part-time. As more aged people requires vast investment in the medicine, fitness, nutritious food, consulting, and other self-cared related activities, the medical care, sports, agriculture industry and religious will likely become dominant and transformed. One of the most obvious transformation is automatic services that replaced humans in various service industries, such as the deliveries, Ubers, hair salons and massage centers.
People travel and communicate using advanced, portable (or wearable), intelligent digital gadgets with transparent screens. Innovative approaches solved the problem of traffic, such as underground highways and automatic, speed, ubiquitous public transportation that gives us private spaces to commute, communicate and work at the same time. Virtual communication highly resembles to an face-to-face one, evolving to a form that is likely to be a time tunnel in Hawking’s theories.
The politics would be tricky. On the one hand, more authoritarian and totalitarian societies reach their peak in their centralized controls, such as China and India. On the other hand, the American continent reach its peak in their individualized structures, while European countries witnessed a change from democratic societies to more centralized ones. Divided as countries are in terms of their sociopolitical structure, the world has become a global village, where the Eastern and Western collides to evolve into a new, mixed academic and cultural landscape.
Three words:
Aged
Digitally Intelligent
Totalitarianism
The advances of digital technologies and AI is the key thing.
What will people want to remember when they think back on 2020?
Chaos in our ecosystems, communities, organizations and entities. As said by Friedrich Nietzsche,“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star”― whenever there is chaos, there is an opportunity.
Relevant link to projected mortality data.
