FUTURE SPECIAL .............Life in the year 2116

Life in the year 2116

Experts predict we’ll be living underwater, eating 3D printed food and holidaying by drone

You can take everything including the kitchen sink on holiday

In the future, rather than packing to go on holiday, we’ll be able to take our houses with us (including the kitchen sink), thanks to giant drones.

A new report by a group of academics, future architects and urbanists, which looks at what life might be like 100 years from now, has predicted that the huge drones will carry entire buildings wherever you want to go, without upsetting any of the soft furnishings.

And instead of building up, future city planners may well look the other way.

People will live in ‘earth-scrapers’, which will go up to 25 storeys underground. And ‘bubble cities’ will be created underwater so humans can survive under the sea.

3D-printed food, something that is already possible today, will become a way of life, with the ability to download dishes from your favourite chefs, which can be printed out, ready to eat, in seconds.

We’ll also be able to 3D-print entire houses, and all the furniture to go in them.

For your extended summer break, instead of heading to the Costa Brava for two weeks, families will be able to take commercial flights into space, as colonisation of the Moon and Mars will have taken place, the Samsung commissioned SmartThings Future Living Report suggests.

Our homes will also come with LED screen walls which can be changed to suit the mood (so no more fights over which shade of magnolia to use).

‘Our lives today are almost unrecognisable from those a century ago,’ said space scientist Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock, who co-authored the report for SmartThings, an app which lets you control everyday objects in your home.

 ‘Just ten years ago, technology like SmartThings would have been inconceivable, yet today developments like this let us monitor, control and secure our living spaces with the touch of a smartphone,’ Dr Maggie explained.

‘Over the next century we will see further seismic shifts in the way we live and interact with our surroundings’.

Alison Lynch for Metro.co.uk

 http://metro.co.uk/2016/02/15/life-in-the-year-2116-experts-predict-well-be-living-underwater-eating-3d-printed-food-and-holidaying-by-drone-5682342/#ixzz40Hvhas3K