Every day, smartphones are getting smarter,

AI is becoming more intelligent,

and our environment seems to be getting worse every year.

If you were to travel 50 years into the future, what would the world look like?

Would robots have taken over everything?

Would we still be living on Earth?

Would alien life finally be discovered?

This is WHAT IF, and here's what would happen if you lived 50 years in the future.

Look down at your phone and think how far technology has come in the last 10 years.

Have you ever imagined what tech might look like in 50 years?

What about your family and friends? What will happen to them?

In 50 years' time, we might actually look back and laugh at how we used to have to hold our phones.

How primitive!

Instead, our smartphones will either be worn or implanted in us through contact lenses.

Imagine being able to have your GPS embedded in your vision, instead of having to look down at your phone.

But, although this all sounds nice, there will be problems, too.

If you don't want to fast-forward yourself into the future because you're worried that your family might not be around,

well, you can rest easy, knowing that in 50 years, the average life expectancy will be about 80 to 90 years.

That's over 10 years longer than it is today.

Since the nineteen sixties, our population percentages have always looked like a pyramid.

But 50 years into the future, that pyramid will look more like a rectangle.

This means that there will be an equal percentage of senior citizens to toddlers.

This will have a huge effect on the economy.

Grandma and Grandpa will be retiring much later, and when they do, those seniors' homes are going to be packed.

With more people in the work force, jobs will be harder to find.

Just graduated school?

Expect to live at home with mom and dad a bit longer.

Especially since AI is expected to be working over 800 million of our former jobs by 2030.

The world's population will be at an all-time high.

By this time, the population of Earth will have reached a staggering nine billion people.

More people means more problems.

There will be a much higher probability of food shortages as we try to grow crops to feed everyone.

Due to increasing temperatures, crops will be harder to grow as well.

And with 70% of the world's population living in cities, crowding will lead to more diseases being spread, and being spread faster.

As for the environment, well, that doesn't look too good, either.

The Amazon rainforest will continue to be deforested, and in 50 years' time, half of it will be gone.

Don't expect it to come back, either.

Increasing climate change will render it a parched shrubland.

Higher temperatures will cause the polar ice caps to melt to less than 50% of what they are today.

And the Dead Sea may actually live up to its name, as its water will continue to evaporate.

Thinking about visiting American cities like New Orleans, Miami, and Houston?

Well, sorry, but you're out of luck.

Hurricanes will get a lot worse in the next 50 years, and higher water levels will lead us to abandon the Gulf Coast.

But don't worry, it's not all bad.

Although the world may be dying, it's not the only place humans will have to live.

In the next 50 years, humans will have begun colonizing Mars.

Private companies will even be attempting to travel to the Alpha Centauri system, the closest star system to our Solar System.

While we're there, we'll visit the Proxima-centauri B planet, which has a good chance of housing alien life.

If we don't find any little green men, we might decide to colonize it ourselves.

So, we've talked about the human race and the environment, but what about you?

What's going to happen with you 50 years into the future?

Well, first off, you won't have to go to the doctor for your annual checkup.

You'll have a device where you can scan yourself for any diseases.

Watch for body modifications to rise in popularity.

And, no, we're not talking about tattoos or piercings.

You'll be able to get things like cybernetic eyes that will allow you to see better and to see things that are invisible to us today, like radiation.

If you're rich from your Bitcoin investment blowing up, then you can even get yourself a designer baby.

These babies can be completely customized from simply what they look like to things like their behavior and intelligence.

AI will be as smart as humans.

They won't have taken over the world just yet, but they'll be well on their way.

AI will constantly be progressing in intelligence, soon being smarter than humans could ever imagine ourselves.

Expect them to be working with us, while humans have more advanced roles in our jobs.

So, are you ready for all the good and bad that comes with the future?

If not, that's okay!

Just live in the present, and slowly grow into it over the next 50 years.

Who knows? In the future, we may not even talk about hypothetical scenarios anymore.

Will there be any "What ifs"?

Or will every idea in the universe have already gone through a computer simulation?

That sounds like a question for another What IF.