The Star: January 10, 2019

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Year’s Day twins grow up in?
What the
future holds
2040
By 2040, Christchurch’s
population is expected to be
between 449,000 and 459,000
based on a medium growth rate
by Stats NZ.
New Zealand will have about
six million people and about 1.4
million of Kiwis are likely to be
of Asian ethnicity.
The world’s population is
projected to grow to nine billion,
according to the United Nations.
It is currently estimated to be
around 7.5 billion.
New transport technologies
are also expected to make travel
easier and faster.
Aircraft manufacturer Boeing
says hypersonic planes travelling
at Mach 5 (5400km/h) could enter
service in the late 2030s. This
would mean people can travel
from London to Sydney in less
than six hours.
Plans are under way in the
United Arab Emirates to build
the first commercial Hyperloop
system and testing is set to begin
in 2021. Hyperloop is a mode
of transport where pods travel
through a low-pressure tube, using
electric propulsion.
It’s manufacturer, Virgin, says
the pods will float above a track
in the low-pressure tube using
magnetic levitation and will
glide at airline speeds at long distances,
connecting major cities.
Virgin’s space tourism venture,
Virgin Galactic is also expected
to be in operation, allowing
regular tourist flights to space.
Also in space travel, NASA is
planning its first manned mission
to Mars in the 2030s.
London-based data broker IHS
Markit forecasts that self-driving
cars will make up more than 26
per cent of new car sales across
the globe in 2040.
FUTURE: Boeing’s concept for a hypersonic aircraft, which could mean travel from
London to Sydney in six hours.
A number of countries have
agreed to stop selling new petrol
and diesel cars by 2040 in a
bid to reduce pollution, paving
the way for electric and hybrid
vehicles.
The world will also face a number
of environmental challenges
by 2040.
The UN predicts that half
of the world’s population will
face freshwater shortages from
2030.
The technological innovation
will also put a strain the planet’s
resources. The BBC reported in
2014 that China – the world’s
largest producer of rare earth
metals – will have depleted its
mines by the 2030s.
2060
By 2060, the world is likely to
have 10 billion people, and New
Zealand will have about 6.5 million
people.
English astronomer and physicist
Sir Isaac Newton predicted
in 1704 that the world as we
know it, will end in 2060.
But the good news for the
planet is, if current trends continue
the Earth’s ozone layer is
likely to fully heal by 2060, a UN
report said in November.
But due to temperature rises,
the United States National Oceanic
Atmospheric Administration
predicts the Arctic to have
its first ice free summer by 2050.
Oxford University Press
reported in 2013 that scientists
predicted medical advances by
2060 will allow organs to be
grown inside animals from human
cells, making organ replacements
more common.
Artificial Intelligence could
also advance significantly by
2060.
In a survey of 352 AI researchers
by Oxford and Yale Universities,
experts said that there is a
50 per cent chance that AI will
be able to perform all tasks better
than humans.
The global economy will
also see big changes by 2060,
according to the Organisation
for Economic Co-operation and
Development.
WARM: The Arctic could have its first ice free summer in 2050. Right – Islam is predicted
to be the world’s largest religion in 2080, overtaking Christianity. Pictured is the Al-Haram
Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
China and India’s combined
economies will be larger than the
entire developed world.
2080
By 2080, it is estimated that
10.8 billion people will live on
earth and New Zealand’s population
will near the seven million
mark.
A major shift in religion is also
predicted to happen according
to American think tank Pew
Research Centre.
They predicted that Islam will
overtake Christianity as the
world’s largest religion after 2070.
Currently, Christianity is the
world’s largest religion with 31.4
per cent of the world identifying
themselves Christian. Muslims
currently account for 23.2 per
cent of the population.
Those alive in 2080 will experience
a warmer planet, the UN
says. The global average temperature
is predicted to rise by 4 deg
C towards the latter years of the
century.
New Zealand’s average temperature
could also increase by
3.8 deg C by 2080, according to
the National Institute of Water
and Atmospheric Research.
2100
By now, the world population
will be about 11.4 billion.
The growth is primarily expected
to come from Africa and
a third of Europeans will be aged
60 or over, the UN says.
Lagos, Nigeria, is also likely to
be the biggest city in the world
with 88 million people, the
Global Cities Institute says.
According to a mathematical
study by the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, earth will
begin experiencing a mass extinction
event due to increases in
carbon levels in the atmosphere
and ocean.
But the researchers say it won’t
happen overnight, and it may
take thousands of years to reach
extinction.
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