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Hello from 2030

Jan Paul Schutten - Author

Questions about feeding a growing population, reducing rubbish and future technologies connect everyday life with larger environmental and social challenges.

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"Would you like to know the future? And, will it be what we think it will be, or will today's predictions be laughably wrong? In Hello from 2030, middle graders get a peek at what's coming just around the corner. In the year 2030, today's kids will be grappling with issues adults are just starting to address now. No, not flying cars: real world conundrums like, what will 8 billion people eat? How can humans produce less trash? Which cool technologies will be used to figure all this out? And, how do people predict the future anyway? This book gives kids not only plenty to dream, argue, and think about, but also a first-hand look at futurology, the science of predicting the future."--

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futurologyfuture predictionsuncertaintyfoodwasteenvironmenthealth

Non-fictionIllustrated book

Themes in Context

Predicting what comes next

The book explores how people forecast the future and asks whether predictions will prove accurate.Exploratory / explanatory

How the book presents it: Its focus is on the process of forecasting and the possibility that predictions may be wrong.

Talk about: What makes a prediction more or less convincing?

Future-facing challenges

The book considers questions about feeding a growing population, producing less rubbish and addressing health and environmental concerns.Exploratory / explanatory

How the book presents it: These issues are presented as problems to think about alongside possible future technologies.

Talk about: Which of these challenges seems most pressing, and what might help address it?

Why It May Be Worth Reading

Its focus on how people predict the future offers a useful way to think about uncertainty, including why confident forecasts can turn out to be wrong.

What Deserves Attention

Food, environmental change, waste, health and technologies such as robots feature among its topics; the book frames them as questions about the future.

A Conversation Worth Having

Which predictions seem most convincing, and what evidence or assumptions might change your mind about them?

Reading Approach

Read a chapter at a time, pausing to separate what is presented as a current problem from what is proposed or predicted for the future.

Confidence & Basis

Theme indicators describe how the book presents a topic; they are not a verdict on the whole book or your family's values. Confidence reflects how much book-specific material was checked. Only part of the book information was available, so some details remain unconfirmed.

What remains unconfirmed

Predicting what comes next: The specific forecasts and how each is assessed are not established.
Future-facing challenges: The book's conclusions or preferred solutions are not established.

Hello from 2030: The Science of the Future and You - Jan Paul Schutten - Google Books

Limited information

Checked: 1 October 2026.

Relevant to: Predicting what comes next; Future-facing challenges

Hello from 2030 by Jan Paul Schutten | Open Library