The World History
-2050 Edition

Speculation and Trend Forecasting

Foreword

The World History: 2050 edition is part of the project for the elective: Change the World. With studying the past trends, history and changes in this world, this history reference book is a speculation of what the history in 2050 might look like. This is just one timeline that may be possible. Who knows, it actually might!

Every single chapter and subheading in the book is based and backed by proper research on trends and speculation for the future by credible sources.

Process

Using a number of references, a timeline was charted out mapping out the social, cultural, technological, political and media changes every five years till 2050. This included Religion, Climate change, Journalism, Entertainment, Education, Economic changes, Industrialization and Human relations. This worked as a base for the history in 2050. Inferring from these changes, the chapters of this reference book were planned out. Each chapter dealt with a specific timeline and event that the students in 2050 might find helpful in studying history. With the base of the timeline chart, the contents of the chapter were written using references from books and the internet. Check out the complete process in the war mockumentary here:

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Books in 2050?

It is often debated whether books might still exist in 2050, or if the education system would have the question-answer format as shown in this book and if students will still be required to hand-write lengthy papers. In my personal opinion, books might still stick around in 2050. Books have been throughout history and are a great source of history and documentation. As for the education system, it is debatable. The education system might still stick to the old traditional methods like it is doing right now, or might evolve into paperless and more practical based which has already begun. To not go speculate without proper research and sources, I have used the format of textbooks today as a medium to showcase my real study: the content of a history textbook or reference book.