What picture do you have of the future? Will life in the future be better, worse or the same as now? What do you hope for about the future? Scientists think that life will probably be very different in 2050.

First of all, it seems that people won’t use TV channels (频道) by 2050. Instead, people will choose a program from a “menu” and a computer will send the program directly to the television.

Water will become very serious problem. We’ll need much more water, but there won’t be enough. Some scientists think that water would be the cause of war (战争).

Cars will run on new, clean energy and they will go very fast. And there won’t be any accidents with the help of computers. On the other hand, space planes will take people around the world in two hours.

Robots will work in factories instead of people. Many factories have already used robots. Big companies prefer robots—they do not ask for money, and they work for 24 hours a day.

In a word, by 2050, our life will change a lot and our future will be quite different from now.

What will our world be like in 2050? Maybe no one knows. Because we never know what will happen in the future. But it’s very interesting to make some predictions. Here are some exciting predictions.

Languages

English should still be the most popular language, but Chinese should be the second. Now, many foreign people are studying Chinese as their second language.

Water

Water will become as expensive as oil because many rivers will disappear. We will have to save water and pay more for clean water.

Education and Science

Students won’t go to school. They will stay at home and study online. Students from all over the world may study together on the Internet. We may eat more genetically modified food. And more robots will be around us. Lots of dangerous work will be done by them.

Living

People will live and work under the sea. Perhaps there will be big towns, factories and farms under the sea, too. Everyone will carry a pocket computer. The computer will give people all the answers to their questions. Everyone will have telephones in the pockets, too, and they will be able to talk to their friends all over the world.