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By 2030 you'll own Nothing and be Happy !

703 views · Published 25 March 2017 · 8:52 · Indexed 20 October 2026

Channel: Mike Martins · 2017 · People & Blogs

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“We’re all humans in the end. We all come from woman, and we all go to the ground when we die.”
— Mike Martins


This is one of those articles I had to read a couple of times before making a video because I wanted to approach it calmly and really think about what it was describing.
The article presents a fictional vision of the year 2030 where a person living in a highly connected city says they own nothing, while transportation, housing, appliances and many other things that we currently purchase have essentially become services.
Instead of owning a car, transportation comes when you need it. Instead of purchasing products and keeping them, you access what you need. Technology becomes integrated into almost every aspect of daily life, while automation and robots perform more of the work people once did.
But one part really caught my attention.
The article describes people who choose not to participate in this highly technological city system. Some leave the cities and form small self-sufficient communities. Others occupy older homes in abandoned villages. They're basically the outsiders—the people who decided that technology, automation and the direction society was heading had become too much.
That immediately got my attention because I just left the big city myself.
I'm living in a smaller community because I wanted a different life for myself and my family. So when I read a vision of 2030 where people outside major cities are portrayed as living completely different lives from those inside them, I have questions.
What happens to privacy? Ownership? Independence?
And what happens when automation starts replacing large numbers of jobs?
The article is presenting a possible future, not a guaranteed prediction of what 2030 will actually look like. But in 2017, I think these are conversations worth having because technology is already changing incredibly quickly.
I don't want a future built around people fighting each other. I want peace, prosperity, human advancement and respect between different countries, religions and cultures.
Technology should improve people's lives. But we should still be asking where we're going and what we're giving up along the way.
2030 isn't as far away as it sounds.

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