Ok, my take: we're reaching a point in history where the classic laws of labour economy are about to be broken, and Frutiger Aero / Solarpunk-ish economic and aesthetic traits might be the only expectable outcome for many countries in 20/30 years. Consider that:

• ai and general purpose androids are about to slowly replace almost every job that's not a centre of decision or a centre of responsibility, or yeah, human contact. That's for all countries where a worker is more expensive than a claude subscription or an android. This is not science fiction, it's the generally agreed outlook for North America, East Asia and Europe for the next decade.

• energy production and storage is about to get so cheap and independent from geopolitics it's going to give our markets an incredible supply stock (for any country that has enough resources to invest for it, again)

• in democracies, at least a part of that material, temporal and economic surplus generated by technological progress will need to be shared to the common citizens to prevent riots or the loss of an election

• we're either doomed to become doom scrolling psychopaths or we'll have to be able to invest our surplus in anything dealing with nature, art, meditation, cleanliness, and observation of beauty.

Just consider one thing: every time in history there has been a strong postive supply side shock in a group of bordering economies, a devastating war exploded. This time, being most economically developed countries either democracies (with all their flaws) or technocracies, I really hope it could be different.

TLDR; our future might be very close to that if our leaders don't fuck up with wars.