People in 2030: Home for All Homeless
2030, Munich, EU
Michael: 40 y.o. Occupation: lawyer, Works at a foundation that helps climate refugees to settle in Germany — help them to live in villages made from modular, or 3d printed homes, help children go to school and learn new skills; Marital status: married with 2 kids; Lives in: Berlin; Loves: his job and his family
The Great Migration Wave
Early in the morning, Michael woke up on the train from Berlin to Munich. The midnight train was almost approaching the Munich railway station, and Michael started to prepare his belongings. It was going to be a long but exciting day. He was about to make a deal for one of the municipality’s lands near the city of H. where a new village was about to emerge. A Village for New Beginnings.
That’s how Michael and his team called the new villages that they all together build for the millions of climate change migrants that came to Germany in recent years. All these people were looking for a new life, a new home, and new hope. And they were dedicated to help and support them.
Michael joined the N. International Foundation right after the Second Big Wave — The Great climate change migration from the South and the Middeteranian into Europe, which happened in 2025.
3D-Printed Houses
To provide homes to millions of people, leaving their motherland and looking for shelters in Europe, the Foundation started to build homes based on the promising 3D printing technology¹.
3D printed homes are cheap, they can be produced in less than 50 hours, in different design palettes, and with nearly zero waste.
The actual building of the houses was the easiest part of the process. A campaign was made in Kickstarter, and for less than 24 hours, 1 billion Euro were collected — millions of ordinary people who supported the cause and the future of the underprivileged. It was the Big news on social networks for many days. The fact that so many people reacted and supported the cause was amazing.
AI to the rescue
The harder part was to help migrants become accepted everywhere and to provide them with equal rights.
Exactly that fact makes Michael’s job a little bit harder — to help the local community to accept the new village and to convince the municipality to provide the land. But the new AI software³ that they started to use two years ago, was very useful and help them a lot by predicting when and where to build the new cities in order to achieve sustainable and better cities for living.
He took the Uber ride that was waiting for him on the railway station entrance. It was an ordinary electric car, one of the most popular these days. The driver was a young guy with a big smile. He told Michael that he is also working at a company³ that delivers nutritionally balanced food, made from 100% plants. He explained that they use only locally produced products.
Michael asked him if they will be ok if there will be a migrant village nearby and are they going to buy vegetables from them. The driver said that he doesn’t mind but maybe the older generations are more hesitant. And not that they are against, but that they are a little bit afraid of the strangers. Michael noted that in his digital paper notebook.
The car left him in front of the municipality’s building of the city of H. and he was immediately received by the mayor and his team. Questions about the new village were raised: What the newcomers will work? How they will be provided? How the children will be educated? How they will communicate with each other when they don’t know the language?
For Michael, these were the frequently asked questions asked every time. Thanks to the fast-developing AI technologies, everything these days were much much easier.
For the communication, the newcomers will use the Assistant⁴ on their phones and will translate everything they hear, or everything they want to say, in real-time. They will be provided with free German-speaking courses, so they can learn and use the language themselves. Children will be able to choose if they want to go to a real school, or just to learn online.
Most of the migrants are very well educated and can practice their jobs as architects, doctors, engineers, poets, by working from home, or at the local companies. If they want, they could become home-farmers, or work together with the locals.
“The questions that you are raising are very important and I can understand all of your concerns. The whole situation is new to all of us and we are learning in the process. What we do today is to provide the basics — a shelter, a piece of land. Our duty is to help these people and to walk together in this process because we can be at their place tomorrow. The situation they are in is a result of what we’ve all done in the past. The way the generations before have lived in the 20 century. What we ask from you is just to let them in, and try to find a way how to live together.”
Michael’s words echoed in people’s hearts. In the end, nevertheless how afraid most people were from the new AI technologies, right now they were there to help them just to be more human.
