The world in 2040 / Rio Koyama

    I predict that the transportation in 2040 might be more convenient than it is now. The electric cars and self-driving cars might be commonly on the market as everyday vehicles that anyone can buy. The reason is that they are already developed and sold in developed countries, so in 2040, the price will be lower, and I think it will be likely to have a self-driving as standard equipment. 

    And I believes that 3D technology could be more developed and more widely used than it is now. You can still use it to create a virtual world, or you can actually make anything exist as a thing with a 3D printer. So by 2040, the technology is going to be even better, so I would expect that the boundary between the virtual world and the real world would almost disappear, or the things made by 3D technology would actually be used in reality as a matter of course.

    But I don’t think that people in 2040 could stay the hotel in the Moon and go to the Mars. Now in 2021, not only the number of people going to the moon limited, but it also takes a lot of money and time. I doubt that space flight technology will improve until we can easily go to the moon or Mars in 20 years. Of course, it would be interesting to be able to go there, and I would definitely like to go, but I think it will be difficult to actually realize it.