By Futurist Thomas Frey
By 2040, you’ll stop owning most of your stuff. Not because you can’t afford it—because owning things will make no sense.
This isn’t about subscription services or sharing economy 2.0. This is something more fundamental: the convergence of personalization, robotics, and micro-manufacturing making on-demand production so efficient that ownership becomes economically irrational and logistically unnecessary.
Your AI won’t help you shop. It’ll simply have things made and delivered when you need them, then recycled when you’re done. Possessions become temporary—summoned when useful, disappeared when not.
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