{"id":576604,"date":"2020-01-03T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T08:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/?post_type=wealth&#038;p=576604"},"modified":"2025-12-16T10:56:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T10:56:14","slug":"its-2020-already-and-we-were-supposed-to-be-teleporting-to-work-by-now-whats-taking-so-long","status":"publish","type":"wealth","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/wealths\/its-2020-already-and-we-were-supposed-to-be-teleporting-to-work-by-now-whats-taking-so-long\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s 2020 already and we were supposed to be teleporting to work by now. What\u2019s taking so long?"},"content":{"rendered":"<section id=\"576606\" class=\"issue-section \">\n<div class=\"issue-section__content\">\n<div class=\"stories\">            <!-- Show divider before story section -->\r\n        <div \r\n            class=\"\r\n                story-section            \"\r\n            id=\"576606\">\r\n            \r\n                <div class=\"issue-story-header text-center\">\r\n                    <div class=\"index-number\">1<\/div>\r\n\r\n                    <p class=\"f-graphik\">The Beginning<\/p>\r\n                    <h3 class=\"story-title\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2020\/01\/03\/576606\/\">\r\n                                                    <\/a>\r\n                    <\/h3>\r\n\r\n                    \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\n<div class=\"cta\">\n    <div class=\"cta__btn share-dropdown-cta dropdown-toggle-btn\" style=\"position:relative\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ent.news\/internal\/408834.svg\" alt=\"\">\n        Share Story\n        <!-- Dropdown Menu -->\n        <ul class=\"share-menu\">\n            <li class=\"list-inline-item\">\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2020\/01\/03\/576606\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n                    Open in new tab                    <!-- <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"assets\/media\/placeholder\/svg\/new-tab.svg\" alt=\"\"> -->\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n            <li class=\"list-inline-item\">\n                <a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); navigator.clipboard.writeText('https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2020\/01\/03\/576606\/')\">\n                    Copy Link                <\/a>\n\n            <\/li>\n            <li class=\"list-inline-item\">\n                <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2020\/01\/03\/576606\/\">\n                    Facebook                    <!-- <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"assets\/media\/placeholder\/svg\/facebook-icon2.svg\" alt=\"\"> -->\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n            <li class=\"list-inline-item\">\n                <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/intent\/post?text=&url=https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2020\/01\/03\/576606\/\">\n                    X                    <!-- <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"assets\/media\/placeholder\/svg\/twitter-icon.svg\" alt=\"\"> -->\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n            <li class=\"list-inline-item\">\n                <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2020\/01\/03\/576606\/&title=\">\n                    LinkedIn                    <!-- <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"assets\/media\/placeholder\/svg\/linkedin-icon.svg\" alt=\"\"> -->\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n            <li class=\"list-inline-item\">\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/api.whatsapp.com\/send?text=+https%3A%2F%2Fenterpriseam.com%2Fegypt%2F2020%2F01%2F03%2F576606%2F\">\n                    WhatsApp                    <!-- <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"assets\/media\/placeholder\/svg\/whatsapp-icon.svg\" alt=\"\"> -->\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n        <\/ul>\n    <\/div>\n        <\/div>\r\n                    \r\n                <\/div>\r\n\r\n            \r\n            <div class=\"story__body\">\r\n\r\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2020\/01\/03\/576606\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"photo photo--above\">\r\n                                            <\/div>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n\r\n                \n<article id=\"post-576606\" class=\"content-area-description single-story post-576606 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-the-beginning wpautop entry\">\n\n\t\n\t<div class=\"entry-content\">\n\n\t\t\n\t\t<p><strong>Your Wealth is a custom Enterprise briefing for people just like you: <\/strong>Executives, entrepreneurs and builders who know that time isn\u2019t money, but that time and money are feedstock for the one thing that matters most in life: Your family, however you define it.<\/p>\n<p>Once a month, in partnership with our friends at <strong>CIB Wealth<\/strong>, we\u2019ll bring you a hand-picked selection of ideas, tips and inspirational stories that will help you make the most of your time, enhance our wealth, and build a better life with the people you love.<\/p>\n<p>As always, we love hearing from readers. Send us story ideas, hints, tips or interview suggestions to editorial@enterprise.press.<\/p>\n\n\t<\/div><!-- .entry-content -->\n\n\t\n<\/article><!-- #post-${ID} -->\n\n\n            <\/div>\r\n        <\/div> <!-- \/.story -->\r\n    \n    \n\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"576607\" class=\"issue-section \">\n<div class=\"issue-section__content\">\n<div class=\"stories\">            <!-- Show divider before story section -->\r\n        <div \r\n            class=\"\r\n                story-section            \"\r\n            id=\"576607\">\r\n            \r\n                <div class=\"issue-story-header text-center\">\r\n                    <div class=\"index-number\">2<\/div>\r\n\r\n                    <p class=\"f-graphik\">WHAT 2020 COULD HAVE BEEN<\/p>\r\n                    <h3 class=\"story-title\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2020\/01\/03\/what-2020-could-have-been\/\">\r\n                            What 2020 could have been                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/h3>\r\n\r\n                    \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\n<div class=\"cta\">\n    <div class=\"cta__btn share-dropdown-cta dropdown-toggle-btn\" style=\"position:relative\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ent.news\/internal\/408834.svg\" alt=\"\">\n        Share Story\n        <!-- Dropdown Menu -->\n        <ul class=\"share-menu\">\n            <li class=\"list-inline-item\">\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2020\/01\/03\/what-2020-could-have-been\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n                    Open in new tab                    <!-- <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"assets\/media\/placeholder\/svg\/new-tab.svg\" alt=\"\"> -->\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n            <li class=\"list-inline-item\">\n                <a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); navigator.clipboard.writeText('https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2020\/01\/03\/what-2020-could-have-been\/')\">\n                    Copy Link                <\/a>\n\n            <\/li>\n            <li class=\"list-inline-item\">\n                <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2020\/01\/03\/what-2020-could-have-been\/\">\n                    Facebook                    <!-- <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"assets\/media\/placeholder\/svg\/facebook-icon2.svg\" alt=\"\"> -->\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n            <li class=\"list-inline-item\">\n                <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/intent\/post?text=What 2020 could have been&url=https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2020\/01\/03\/what-2020-could-have-been\/\">\n                    X                    <!-- <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"assets\/media\/placeholder\/svg\/twitter-icon.svg\" alt=\"\"> -->\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n            <li class=\"list-inline-item\">\n                <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2020\/01\/03\/what-2020-could-have-been\/&title=What 2020 could have been\">\n                    LinkedIn                    <!-- <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"assets\/media\/placeholder\/svg\/linkedin-icon.svg\" alt=\"\"> -->\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n            <li class=\"list-inline-item\">\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/api.whatsapp.com\/send?text=What+2020+could+have+been+https%3A%2F%2Fenterpriseam.com%2Fegypt%2F2020%2F01%2F03%2Fwhat-2020-could-have-been%2F\">\n                    WhatsApp                    <!-- <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"assets\/media\/placeholder\/svg\/whatsapp-icon.svg\" alt=\"\"> -->\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n        <\/ul>\n    <\/div>\n        <\/div>\r\n                    \r\n                <\/div>\r\n\r\n            \r\n            <div class=\"story__body\">\r\n\r\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2020\/01\/03\/what-2020-could-have-been\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"photo photo--above\">\r\n                                            <\/div>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n\r\n                \n<article id=\"post-576607\" class=\"content-area-description single-story post-576607 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-what-2020-could-have-been tag-enterpriseyourwealth tag-what-2020-could-have-been wpautop entry\">\n\n\t\n\t<div class=\"entry-content\">\n\n\t\t\n\t\t<p><strong>Happy New Year, one and all. And welcome to 2020. <\/strong>One decade has ended, and another begun, and somehow we\u2019re 20 years into the 21st century. People have been making predictions for years about what life would be like in the 2020s, but now we\u2019ve actually got here, just how many of those predictions came true? 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Extracts from their letters are published in this <a href=\"https:\/\/paleofuture.gizmodo.com\/kids-in-1904-had-wild-predictions-about-the-future-of-2-1830988336\">piece by Gizmodo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>There were some oddly prescient predictions: <\/strong>One child imagined sending \u201ca wireless telegraph message\u201d to get ice cream and cake, while another envisaged \u201cmoveable stairs\u201d that would help people with large bundles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>But we\u2019re no closer to having ape chauffeurs. Sorry.<\/strong> In 1994, a group of researchers at RAND Corp \u2014 evidently on a mission to shred the think tank\u2019s credibility \u2014 proposed that by 2020 we would be driven around by monkeys and serviced by house robots. This article on <a href=\"https:\/\/bestlifeonline.com\/2020-predictions\/\">Best Life<\/a> contains more wild predictions by totally rational people such as US Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield, who saw the cruise missile as the ideal method of mail delivery, and Alex Lewyt, former president of Lewyt Vacuum Company, who believed that nuclear-powered vacuum cleaners would become the most effective way to clean the house.<\/p>\n\n\t<\/div><!-- .entry-content -->\n\n\t\n<\/article><!-- #post-${ID} -->\n\n\n    <div class=\"tags-section\">\n        <div class=\"f-graphik\">Tags:<\/div>\n        <div class=\"tags-list\">\n                            <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/tag\/aviation\/\">aviation<\/a>\n                <!-- <span class=\"sep\">,&nbsp;<\/span> -->\n                            <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/tag\/mars\/\">Mars<\/a>\n                <!-- <span class=\"sep\">,&nbsp;<\/span> -->\n                            <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/tag\/space\/\">space<\/a>\n                <!-- <span class=\"sep\">,&nbsp;<\/span> -->\n                            <a 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Authority <a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.press\/stories\/2019\/12\/30\/merged-uber-careem-to-operate-in-egypt-under-eca-rules-9342\/\">granted regulatory approval<\/a> to the Uber-Careem merger<\/b>, albeit with a few caveats.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.press\/stories\/2019\/12\/02\/short-selling-comes-to-the-egyptian-stock-market-7495\/\">Short selling hit the EGX last month<\/a><\/strong> but has had a lackluster start, with <a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.press\/stories\/2019\/12\/16\/egx-struggles-on-low-trading-volumes-lack-of-new-listings-8495\/\">analysts reporting<\/a> only dozens of trades and confusion among brokerages about how to operate the system.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.press\/stories\/2019\/12\/17\/egypts-pound-rallies-to-near-three-year-high-breaking-egp-16-usd-1-barrier-8543\/\">The EGP broke the EGP 16 barrier<\/a><\/strong><strong> for the first time since February 2017,<\/strong> hitting EGP 15.97 on increased foreign inflows into government bonds.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The government and the Central Bank of Egypt launched <\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.press\/stories\/2019\/12\/05\/egypt-launches-egp-100-bn-program-to-boost-local-industry-7831\/\">a new EGP 100 bn subsidized loan program<\/a><\/strong> for medium-sized manufacturers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t<\/div><!-- .entry-content -->\n\n\t\n<\/article><!-- #post-${ID} -->\n\n\n    <div class=\"tags-section\">\n        <div class=\"f-graphik\">Tags:<\/div>\n        <div class=\"tags-list\">\n                            <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/tag\/your-top-5\/\">YOUR TOP 5<\/a>\n                <!-- <span class=\"sep\">,&nbsp;<\/span> -->\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n            <\/div>\r\n        <\/div> <!-- \/.story -->\r\n    \n    \n\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"576613\" class=\"issue-section \">\n<div class=\"issue-section__content\">\n<div class=\"stories\">     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(1894)<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/296977.Looking_Backward\">Looking Backward (1888)<\/a> imagining giant utopian states, space travel as a regular means of transportation and the adjustment of Earth\u2019s axial tilt. More recent iconic depictions of the era include a post-apocalyptic 2029 in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0088247\/\">the Terminator (1984)<\/a>, an equally dystopian 2019 in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0083658\/\">Blade Runner (1982)<\/a>, and a comically outlandish 2015 in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0096874\/\">Back to the Future Part II<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A lot of these depictions are dark and dystopian:<\/strong> The 1987 adaptation of Stephen King\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0093894\/\">The Running Man<\/a> imagines a global economic collapse that resulted in the US becoming a totalitarian police state where all cultural activity is censored. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0073631\/\">1975\u2019s Rollerball<\/a> paints the world as a corporate dictatorship, where surveillance by huge conglomerates is commonplace and computers have primacy. And in the Japanese <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/93371.Akira_Vol_1\">manga series Akira<\/a>, set in 2019, civil unrest, corruption and gang violence are endemic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sci-fi (and imagined, post-apocalyptic futures) often represents our most pressing cultural anxieties.<\/strong> Rather than being predictions of future doom, they are metaphorical responses to the social, political and economic pre-occupations of the day, argues film professor J. P. Telotte in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/roomfordebate\/2014\/07\/29\/will-fiction-influence-how-we-react-to-climate-change\/science-fiction-reflects-our-anxieties\">New York Times<\/a>. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shrinktank.com\/post-apocalyptic-fiction-anxiety\/\">engaging with stories<\/a> that tackle (however obliquely) what we most fear can be a good way of processing these anxieties, studies say.<\/p>\n\n\t<\/div><!-- .entry-content -->\n\n\t\n<\/article><!-- #post-${ID} -->\n\n\n    <div class=\"tags-section\">\n        <div class=\"f-graphik\">Tags:<\/div>\n        <div class=\"tags-list\">\n                            <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/tag\/the-2020s-in-popular-culture\/\">The 2020s in popular culture<\/a>\n                <!-- <span class=\"sep\">,&nbsp;<\/span> -->\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n            <\/div>\r\n        <\/div> <!-- \/.story -->\r\n    \n    \n\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"576615\" class=\"issue-section \">\n<div class=\"issue-section__content\">\n<div class=\"stories\">            <!-- Show divider before story section -->\r\n        <div \r\n            class=\"\r\n                story-section            \"\r\n            id=\"576615\">\r\n            \r\n                <div class=\"issue-story-header text-center\">\r\n                    <div class=\"index-number\">6<\/div>\r\n\r\n                    <p class=\"f-graphik\">WHICH PREDICTIONS CAME CLOSE TO BEING TRUE?<\/p>\r\n                    <h3 class=\"story-title\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2020\/01\/03\/we-didnt-quite-fulfill-our-childhood-dreams-of-living-like-the-jetsons-but-some-predictions-of-the-future-did-come-true\/\">\r\n                            We didn\u2019t quite fulfill our childhood dreams of living like the Jetsons, but some predictions of the future did come true                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/h3>\r\n\r\n                    \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\n<div class=\"cta\">\n    <div class=\"cta__btn share-dropdown-cta dropdown-toggle-btn\" style=\"position:relative\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ent.news\/internal\/408834.svg\" alt=\"\">\n        Share Story\n        <!-- Dropdown Menu -->\n        <ul class=\"share-menu\">\n            <li class=\"list-inline-item\">\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2020\/01\/03\/we-didnt-quite-fulfill-our-childhood-dreams-of-living-like-the-jetsons-but-some-predictions-of-the-future-did-come-true\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n                    Open in new tab                    <!-- <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"assets\/media\/placeholder\/svg\/new-tab.svg\" alt=\"\"> -->\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n            <li class=\"list-inline-item\">\n                <a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); 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Many of the tools that are part and parcel of our daily lives were nothing but figments of people\u2019s imagination back in the 1980s \u2014 and we\u2019re not just talking about the three-camera iPhone 11. In 1982, Paula Taylor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Whole-Future-Catalog-Paula-Taylor\/dp\/0394850904\">put together a book<\/a> with children\u2019s ideas and predictions about what life might look like in the \u201cdistant future\u201d of the 2000s, and some of the ideas are eerily accurate, <strong>like the creation of Google and its different services<\/strong>. <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/technology\/185287\/this-is-what-the-future-of-tech-looked-like-for-people-35-years-ago\/\">One prediction in Taylor\u2019s book<\/a> envisions computers with such mind-blowing powers that just typing in a few words would help you \u201cfind out almost anything you want to know.\u201d We\u2019re not saying these kids knew we would be asking our computers at 4am whether our dog would understand their birthday party, but they were definitely onto something.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other wild ideas from the \u201880s about the future of tech that were on the money:<\/strong> The creation of <strong>on-demand television<\/strong>. Yes, once upon a time, it was nothing more than a fantasy to have Netflix \/ Hulu \/ Apple TV \/ HBO \/ whatever other streaming services we at Enterprise have yet to discover. Perhaps more outlandish for the time was the prediction of an <strong>entire home being controlled by a robot or computer.<\/strong> Now, we do indeed have Alexa and Google Home, among other personal \u201crobot assistants\u201d and they\u2019re pretty much exactly how they were imagined: \u201cHe [the robot] has full control of the appliances, and can operate the dishwasher or the washing machine \u2014 or adjust the thermostat to make sure the house is at the right temperature.\u201d Alexa, play Fortune Teller.<\/p>\n<p><strong>But even beyond personal tech, some writers made incredibly accurate predictions about the events of the 2000s,<\/strong> decades before they were even thought possible, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/fictional-predictions-about-the-future-that-came-true-2019-1\">according to Business Insider<\/a> (and no, this is not a rundown of every time The Simpsons predicted something that ended up happening in real life.) For example, way back in 1865, novelist Jules Verne described in one of his books a scenario in which a group of Americans<strong> fly into space and land on the moon <\/strong>(this was more than a century before the actual moon landing). And in 1882, Verne saw a future where people could<strong> listen to the news,<\/strong> instead of having to read it from a newspaper. The first radio broadcast didn\u2019t happen until some 40 years later. Novelist H.G. Wells kind of also predicted the <strong>creation of nuclear bombs:<\/strong> In his 1914 novel, \u201cThe World Set Free,\u201d Wells \u201cmentions a hand grenade of uranium that \u2018would continue to explode indefinitely\u2019\u201d and says that this grenade could be dropped from an airplane. Lo and behold, the US dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki three decades later.<\/p>\n\n\t<\/div><!-- .entry-content -->\n\n\t\n<\/article><!-- #post-${ID} -->\n\n\n    <div class=\"tags-section\">\n        <div class=\"f-graphik\">Tags:<\/div>\n        <div class=\"tags-list\">\n                            <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/tag\/science\/\">science<\/a>\n                <!-- <span class=\"sep\">,&nbsp;<\/span> -->\n                            <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/tag\/technology\/\">technology<\/a>\n                <!-- <span class=\"sep\">,&nbsp;<\/span> -->\n                            <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/tag\/which-predictions-came-close-to-being-true\/\">Which predictions came close to being true?<\/a>\n                <!-- <span class=\"sep\">,&nbsp;<\/span> -->\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n            <\/div>\r\n        <\/div> <!-- \/.story -->\r\n    \n    \n\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"576617\" class=\"issue-section \">\n<div class=\"issue-section__content\">\n<div class=\"stories\">            <!-- Show divider before story section -->\r\n        <div \r\n            class=\"\r\n                story-section            \"\r\n            id=\"576617\">\r\n            \r\n                <div class=\"issue-story-header text-center\">\r\n                    <div class=\"index-number\">7<\/div>\r\n\r\n                    <p class=\"f-graphik\">WHAT MIGHT THE WORLD ACTUALLY LOOK LIKE IN 2030?<\/p>\r\n                    <h3 class=\"story-title\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2020\/01\/03\/well-be-living-in-a-different-world-in-2030\/\">\r\n                            We\u2019ll be living in a different world in 2030                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/h3>\r\n\r\n                    \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\n<div class=\"cta\">\n    <div class=\"cta__btn share-dropdown-cta dropdown-toggle-btn\" style=\"position:relative\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ent.news\/internal\/408834.svg\" alt=\"\">\n        Share Story\n        <!-- Dropdown Menu -->\n        <ul class=\"share-menu\">\n            <li class=\"list-inline-item\">\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2020\/01\/03\/well-be-living-in-a-different-world-in-2030\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n                    Open in new tab                    <!-- <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"assets\/media\/placeholder\/svg\/new-tab.svg\" alt=\"\"> -->\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n            <li class=\"list-inline-item\">\n                <a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); 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Fast forward 10 years, and no one will be able to turn a blind eye to climate change. Global warming is currently estimated to be 1.0\u00b0C above pre-industrial levels and its impact can already be felt. If warming exceeds a maximum of 1.5\u00b0C above pre-industrial levels, there could be irreversible damage done to natural and human systems including extreme temperatures in most inhibited areas, drought, heavy precipitation and eventually the loss of some ecosystems and the extinction of some species, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/sr15\/\">according to UN estimates<\/a>. Even worse, <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.who.int\/iris\/bitstream\/handle\/10665\/134014\/9789241507691_eng.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y\">the World Health Organization<\/a> predicts that climate change could cause 250k deaths per year between 2030 and 2050 if we continue along our current path. The good news is that those extreme effects of climate change can be avoidable if the world manages to cut emissions of greenhouse gases by 45% over the next 10 years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>On the lighter side of things:<\/strong> Your iPad, mobile screen and even virtual reality headset may well be considered legacy tech by 2030, as a new generation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2017\/10\/tech-life-predictions-for-2030\/%5C\">displays that project 4D images<\/a> directly onto your retina become the norm. By then, the Internet of Things will have also taken over our lives, helping to wake us up in the morning, prepare our coffee and tailoring our breakfasts based on analyses of nutritional needs. We will then go to work in our driverless cars, free of traffic jams, road rage and car accidents. (cough, Skynet, cough).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sounds far-fetched? Maybe.<\/strong> More plausible predictions come from <a href=\"http:\/\/sloanreview.mit.edu\/article\/the-world-in-2030-nine-megatrends-to-watch\/\">MIT Sloan Management Review<\/a>, which forecasts a continuation of urbanization to the point where two-thirds of us will live in cities, creating the need for more urban agriculture and smart buildings. Limited resources, including water and staple commodities, will also become major issues. 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