A survey commissioned by British telecoms group BT, asked children between the ages of 5 and 11 what they thought the future would look like 10 and 50 years from now.
According to the responses, children of today envisage a future with great technical leaps – but also with some deep environmental and ecological concerns.
The survey revealed that nearly half of the responding children believe that within the next decade, most people will have self-driving cars, robots to do chores at home and wearable tech will exist that will be able to detect when wearers are unwell and what’s wrong .
Other fanciful predictions include things like robot teachers and being able to fly to school on jetpacks . More negative expectations, though, revolve around topics that have dominated the public mind space in recent years, with children being most concerned about a future pandemic , more animals becoming extinct and climate change .
Predictions of robot servants and living in space are not unique to the children surveyed by BT, and have been a fixation of futurists of the late 19th and 20th centuries – though many back then expected these things to be a reality by the 2000s.While many of these futurist predictions
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