A world of DIFFERENCE

Michèle dreams up her version of an ideal future

- MICHÈLE A’COURT

As we get to know this new year, I am casting my mind even further forward to life in 2050.

The glorious thing about the future is that we each get to decide what we’d like it to look like, so here’s my version of life halfway through the 21st century.

By 2050, Baby Boomers like me will likely be sitting quietly somewhere eating soft food and waiting for Nurse to bring us a pinot. Not a terrible prospect, and only right and proper that we are making space for our children and grandchildren to get on with things.

My granddaughter Ariana will be 37 years old and I picture her driving the hover car my generation was promised by The Jetsons cartoon. If not exactly that, then surely by now she is living in a fossil-fuel-free, zero-carbon world.