Chronicle of the Future
  * 2050 and beyond index

 

CAROLINE SCOTT
Phoebe's diary

TECHNOLOGY WILL affect every aspect of our lives but our ability to cope with change will not evolve at the same rate. Mental illnesses such as anxiety and depression will increase

MORE PEOPLE will work from home but it will not be the norm

PROBLEMS OF isolation and loss of creativity will rise but so will a desire to communicate with humans rather than holograms and cyber-robots

THERE WILL be fewer extended families because today's generation left childbearing so late, but a rising number of young professionals will choose communal living: supportive "villages" for new millennium families