Now that you’ve worked with some predictions from both the past and present, what predictions would you make for the future? For this activity, you’ll write a letter (about 300 words) from the year 2050 to your present day self, describing your life in the future. Think about what you might eat and wear. What kind of home will you live in? What will the climate be like? What kind of job will you have? How will you communicate with others? How will you travel? How will you read and write? If you need inspiration, look at some predictions made by a nonprofit group called the World Future Society:

Buying and owning things will go out of style. More young people today are opting to rent things like bicycles, cars, and even phones and computers. This trend will continue. In the future few people will own homes or large items such as cars.
We will bring extinct species back to life using advances genetic engineering.
Rising sea levels due to climate change will submerge many coastlines and even entire nations.
We will be able to predict the behavior of individuals using brain scans and other developments in neuroscience.
The last hard copy of a book, newspaper, and magazine will be printed in 2020.