10 Most Important Things That Will Happen In The Next 20 Years

By 2035, most of the world's population will live in favelas. With that ever-expanding population of ours, the concept of a city will begin to lose its meaning. An urban sprawl, made up of a complex network of communities and forming a blanket of billions of people is likely to be how most people will live in the future.

It would be almost impossible to govern a system like this, but that doesn't mean that people won't try, creating odd municipal pockets here and there. The rise in urban gardening and agriculture will blur the lines between the city and the countryside even more, allowing the sprawl to extend even further into our suburbs and countryside.

This probably isn't in the immediate future for Britain, with its stable population and penchant for upholding the status quo, but cities in South America and across Asia are already well on the way to redefining what a city really is. 

That's not to say that this kind of settlement wouldn't eventually emerge in Britain, but it would just take a long time, enough time, perhaps for a newer, even more different style of living to emerge that we haven't even imagine yet.