I do not own anything. I do not own a car. I do not own a house. I do not own any appliances or any clothes.

Everything you considered a product, has now become a service. We have access to transportation, accommodation, food and all the things we need in our daily lives.

One by one all these things became free, so it ended up not making sense for us to own much.

Shopping is a distant memory in the city of the future, inhabitants have cracked clean energy and borrow what they need on demand.

When products are turned into services, no one has an interest in things with a short life span. Everything is designed for durability, repairability and recyclability.

First communication became digitized and free to everyone. Then, when clean energy became free, things started to move quickly.

Transportation dropped dramatically in price. It made no sense for us to own cars anymore, because we could call a driverless vehicle or a flying car for longer journeys within minutes.

We started transporting ourselves in a much more organized and coordinated way when public transport became easier, quicker and more convenient than the car.

Some things seem never seem to lose their excitement: walking, biking, cooking, drawing and growing plants and it makes perfect sense and reminds us of how our culture emerged out of a close relationship with nature.

We only use clean energy and clean production methods. The air is clean, the water is clean and nobody would dare to touch the protected areas of nature because they constitute such value to our well being.

We do not pay any rent, because someone else is using our free space whenever we do not need it. My living room is used for business meetings when I am not there.

Once in awhile, I will choose to cook for myself. It is easy – the necessary kitchen equipment is delivered at my door within minutes. Since transport became free, we stopped having all those things stuffed into our home.

When AI and robots took over so much of our work, we suddenly had time to eat well, sleep well and spend time with other people. I do not really know if I would call it work anymore. It is more like thinking-time, creation-time and development-time.

My biggest concern is all the people who do not live in our city. Those we lost on the way. Those who decided that it became too much, all this technology. Those who felt obsolete and useless when robots and AI took over big parts of our jobs. Those who got upset with the political system and turned against it.

They live different kind of lives outside of the city. Some have formed little self-supplying communities. Others just stayed in the empty and abandoned houses in small 19th century villages.

Once in a while I get annoyed about the fact that I have no real privacy. No where I can go and not be registered.

I know that, somewhere, everything I do, think and dream of is recorded. I just hope that nobody will use it against me.

Ida Auken