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    This is what your Year 2050 could look like in Munich - A Vision of the Future
    This is what your Year 2050 could look like in Munich - A Vision of the Future
    This is what your Year 2050 could look like in Munich - A Vision of the Future
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    This is what your Year 2050 could look like in Munich - A Vision of the Future

    By Merlin Uther

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    The robot is upon us: The future is so near and yet so far. In this book we take a brief glimpse into the Munich of the future. Above all, technical development alone will ensure that city life will be different from today – Although we cannot yet fly to the supermarket the fundamental image of a city is radically changing. To give a brief insight into the year 2050, however, we must first travel back in time and understand developments that have so far taken place. What makes a city? We examine the central questions and give an indication of what is responsible for the development of a cityscape. We then immerse ourselves in the world of technical progress: a lot will change, particularly in the transport sector. Will we still be driving ourselves, or will be driven? Learn about the importance of artificial intelligence and imagine how robots will gradually play an increasing role in our lives. Ultimately everything will always be quite different from what we imagine anyway, but that still does not stop us dreaming.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMerlin Uther
    Release dateDec 7, 2017
    ISBN9781507196939
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      This is what your Year 2050 could look like in Munich - A Vision of the Future - Merlin Uther

      Issues that will face us in the year 2050.....3

      From the past to the present: The development of a city  20

      The future of a city..........................................29

      How will technical progress develop?.......39

      Your city: What will Munich look like in 30 years time  59

      Issues that will face us in the year 2050

      Life in 2050

      Life on earth is in a constant state of flux and we humans are subject to continuous change. Until the beginning of the 18th century this change took place rather slowly and it took years, even decades, for improvements and innovations to become established in society. These changes affected all areas of human life and hence also the very framework of society. Since the 18th century this process has accelerated and the changes progressed steadily.

      It was not clear when an innovation was complete because it was always subject to further development. This meant that two to three generations at most lived in an identical world. For around a century this process has accelerated

      even further so that today substantial changes can be seen within each generation. Yet if we reflect on this more deeply we ask ourselves how this process will make further advances. Will it get to a point where only changes between the individual generations will be noticed, and even to a point where differences will take place within one generation and people will be subject to indefinite adaptation?

      If we project ourselves to the year 2050 in such a mental experiment, important issues will be raised. Important because they may affect our lives even today. For everyone is aware, to varying degrees, that are laying the foundations for that period in the here and now. However, it is also incredibly exciting to imagine how our own children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren will one day live,  whilst at the same time wondering whether we ourselves can keep pace with this development..

      For if we compare the present generation of young adults, or even children, with the older generation, we see that there is always a danger that we ourselves will lose our connection with time. Not for nothing are human beings referred to as creatures of habit and as such we do not find it particularly appealing to have to continually adapt to change. Familiar procedures and situations inspire security and confidence, whilst for many people innovations initially give rise to distrust and even fear. This therefore immediately begs the

      question as to how far people have to change their thinking and their approach in order to adapt to progress and benefit from the innovations to achieve their goals.

      However, another question this raises is how to change this primeval human fear or this natural behaviour, and whether this is even possible. When we look at children we see that they have no prejudices and very often they are only afraid of things when they realise that their parents or carers react differently. So is there a way of channelling this mistrust into allaying peoples' fears? Will there perhaps be something like an authority or commission to give people such confidence that they lose this fear? Or is this idea merely a utopia and does mistrust fulfil a purpose that ensures that decisions are considered from different perspectives?

      The world's population is growing steadily because of better medical care and improved food supply. In particular, countries which previously played no significant role in cultural, touristic and economic processes have now come to prominence and have a voice in decision-making processes. Because of this world's population is rising continuously and this process well progress until the year 2050. Of course we then ask ourselves what the consequences of this situation will have on the world and its people. For even today the food supply is poorly distributed and alternatives will have to be developed to ensure that all the people are fed. It is therefore questionable whether this development can continue and how many people will then populate the world in the year 2050. Birth control would therefore be one possibility. 

      One approach to this is being implemented in China and a similar programme could be designed for the entire world population. Consideration could be given to introducing an individualised 1-child policy or other standards could be established for this particular social aspect. This could keep the population constant or the population could be adapted to environmental conditions. But as in the case of the 1-child policy in China there are specific problems associated with such a project. For example, what would happen if not just child is born to each family. And how is the concept of family to be understood? This could certainly be one variant, but it is debatable whether the entire world population wants to be restricted in terms of its individual

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