**Education**

Purpose of education: continuous education (8), vocational training/practical education (5), new skill requirement (5), restructuring of higher education (4), soft-skill development (3), new purpose of education (3), education for sustainability (2)

Access to and format of education: technology-assisted education (7), more access to education (5), out-of-school learning (3), less opportunity of education (2)

Notes: Work and Education changes were mentioned as part of the changes in daily living from the *Global Foresight Survey of Potential Changes in Society by 2050: Perspectives of Research Institutes and NGOs*. Multiple labels were allowed per response, and frequency of counts is in parentheses. The unit of analysis is reported changes in daily living, and each respondent could report up to two changes. N = 77.

Thirty of the 258 responses focused on **education**, namely on the purpose of education, as well as access to and format of education (see Table 3). Looking at the **purpose of education**, people might continue their education throughout their life to update their skills in a society rapidly changing due to technological disruptions. Furthermore, education's purpose might shift to prevent mental degradation and a sense of irrelevance when mass human labour is replaced by robotics and machine learning. The content of education would also change, with more vocational training, practical education, soft-skill development, and education for sustainability. For **access to and format of education**, technology's role will increase the use of online education, interactive education via computers, and earlier education on computer science. Access to education may well increase through digital

means, but there were also views that educational opportunities might be limited to specific groups despite improvements in education technology.

### 4.1.4. Physical and Mental Health

Eight responses were related to **leisure**, specifically on the **format and purpose of leisure** (see Table 4). Respondents indicated that there would be more experience-based leisure such as holidays and green tourism. Technology development will also provide leisure using virtual reality and artificial leisure, although unequal accessibility would be a concern. There were also views that people could have more leisure time due to the replacement of human labour with robotics and AI.

> **Table 4.** Changes in physical and mental health.

### **Physical and Mental Health**
